VirusTotal MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for querying the VirusTotal API. This server provides comprehensive security analysis tools with automatic relationship data fetching. It integrates seamlessly with MCP-compatible applications like Claude Desktop.

Quick Start (Recommended)

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio --env VIRUSTOTAL_API_KEY=your-key virustotal -- npx -y @burtthecoder/mcp-virustotal

Codex CLI

codex mcp add virustotal --env VIRUSTOTAL_API_KEY=your-key -- npx -y @burtthecoder/mcp-virustotal

Gemini CLI

gemini mcp add -e VIRUSTOTAL_API_KEY=your-key virustotal npx -y @burtthecoder/mcp-virustotal

Installing via Smithery

To install VirusTotal Server for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install @burtthecoder/mcp-virustotal --client claude

Installing Manually

1. Install the server globally via npm:

npm install -g @burtthecoder/mcp-virustotal

2. Add to your Claude Desktop configuration file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "virustotal": {
      "command": "mcp-virustotal",
      "env": {
        "VIRUSTOTAL_API_KEY": "your-virustotal-api-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Configuration file location:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

3. Restart Claude Desktop

Using with VS Code

To use this MCP server in VS Code with GitHub Copilot:

1. Install the server globally via npm:

npm install -g @burtthecoder/mcp-virustotal

2. Create or update your VS Code MCP configuration file at:

   • macOS/Linux: ~/.vscode/mcp.json
   • Windows: %USERPROFILE%\.vscode\mcp.json

3. Add the following configuration:

{
  "servers": {
    "virustotal": {
      "command": "mcp-virustotal",
      "env": {
        "VIRUSTOTAL_API_KEY": "your-virustotal-api-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

4. Reload VS Code to activate the MCP server

You can then use the VirusTotal tools through GitHub Copilot in VS Code by referencing the available tools in your prompts.

Alternative Setup (From Source)

If you prefer to run from source or need to modify the code:

1. Clone and build:

git clone <repository_url>
cd mcp-virustotal
npm install
npm run build

2. Add to your Claude Desktop configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "virustotal": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/mcp-virustotal/build/index.js"],
      "env": {
        "VIRUSTOTAL_API_KEY": "your-virustotal-api-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

HTTP Streaming Transport

The server supports HTTP streaming transport in addition to the default stdio transport. This is useful for running the server as a standalone HTTP service that multiple clients can connect to.

Running in HTTP Streaming Mode

Set the MCP_TRANSPORT environment variable to httpStream:

MCP_TRANSPORT=httpStream MCP_PORT=3000 VIRUSTOTAL_API_KEY=your-key node build/index.js

Environment Variables

| Variable | Default | Description | |---|---|---| | VIRUSTOTAL_API_KEY | (required) | Your VirusTotal API key | | MCP_TRANSPORT | stdio | Transport mode: stdio or httpStream | | MCP_PORT | 3000 | HTTP server port (only for httpStream) | | MCP_ENDPOINT | /mcp | HTTP endpoint path (only for httpStream) |

Docker with HTTP Streaming

docker build -t mcp-virustotal .
docker run -p 3000:3000 \
  -e VIRUSTOTAL_API_KEY=your-key \
  -e MCP_TRANSPORT=httpStream \
  mcp-virustotal

The server exposes a health check endpoint at /health when running in HTTP streaming mode.

Features

• Comprehensive Analysis Reports: Each analysis tool automatically fetches relevant relationship data along with the basic report using VirusTotal's ?relationships= query, batched to minimize API calls
• URL Analysis: Cached-report-first lookups with automatic fallback to scanning, plus contacted domains, downloaded files, and threat actors
• File Analysis: Detailed analysis of file hashes including behaviors, dropped files, and network connections
• IP Analysis: Security reports with historical data, resolutions, and related threats
• Domain Analysis: DNS information, WHOIS data, SSL certificates, and subdomains
• Detailed Relationship Analysis: Dedicated tools for querying specific types of relationships with pagination support
• Corpus Search: Free-form search across files, URLs, domains, IPs, and comments, including VTI-style modifier syntax (type:peexe positives:5+)
• Sandbox Behaviour Summary: Cross-sandbox merged view of processes, files, registry, network, MITRE ATT&CK, IDS alerts, and signature matches
• Threat Collections: Read APT, malware-family, campaign, and intel-report objects referenced from any report's relationships
• Rich Formatting: Clear categorization and presentation of analysis results and relationship data

Tools

Report Tools (with Automatic Relationship Fetching)

1. URL Report Tool

• Name: get_url_report
• Description: Get a comprehensive URL analysis report including security scan results and key relationships (communicating files, contacted domains/IPs, downloaded files, redirects, threat actors). Returns the cached VirusTotal report when available; only submits the URL for scanning and polls for completion on a cache miss
• Parameters:
  • url (required): The URL to analyze

2. File Report Tool

• Name: get_file_report
• Description: Get a comprehensive file analysis report using its hash (MD5/SHA-1/SHA-256). Includes detection results, file properties, and key relationships (behaviors, dropped files, network connections, embedded content, threat actors)
• Parameters:
  • hash (required): MD5, SHA-1 or SHA-256 hash of the file

3. IP Report Tool

• Name: get_ip_report
• Description: Get a comprehensive IP address analysis report including geolocation, reputation data, and key relationships (communicating files, historical certificates/WHOIS, resolutions)
• Parameters:
  • ip (required): IP address to analyze

4. Domain Report Tool

• Name: get_domain_report
• Description: Get a comprehensive domain analysis report including DNS records, WHOIS data, and key relationships (SSL certificates, subdomains, historical data)
• Parameters:
  • domain (required): Domain name to analyze
  • relationships (optional): Array of specific relationships to include in the report

Relationship Tools (for Detailed Analysis)

1. URL Relationship Tool

• Name: get_url_relationship
• Description: Query a specific relationship type for a URL with pagination support. Choose from 22 relationship types including analyses, communicating files, contacted domains/IPs, downloaded files, graphs, referrers, redirects, threat actors, collections, and votes
• Parameters:
  • url (required): The URL to get relationships for
  • relationship (required): Type of relationship to query
    • Available relationships: analyses, collections, comments, communicating_files, contacted_domains, contacted_ips, downloaded_files, embedded_js_files, graphs, last_serving_ip_address, network_location, referrer_files, referrer_urls, redirecting_urls, redirects_to, related_comments, related_references, related_threat_actors, submissions, urls_related_by_tracker_id, user_votes, votes
  • limit (optional, default: 10): Maximum number of related objects to retrieve (1-40)
  • cursor (optional): Continuation cursor for pagination

2. File Relationship Tool

• Name: get_file_relationship
• Description: Query a specific relationship type for a file with pagination support. Choose from 40 relationship types including behaviors, network connections, dropped files, embedded content, execution chains, and threat actors
• Parameters:
  • hash (required): MD5, SHA-1 or SHA-256 hash of the file
  • relationship (required): Type of relationship to query
    • Available relationships: analyses, behaviours, bundled_files, carbonblack_children, carbonblack_parents, ciphered_bundled_files, ciphered_parents, collections, comments, compressed_parents, contacted_domains, contacted_ips, contacted_urls, dropped_files, email_attachments, email_parents, embedded_domains, embedded_ips, embedded_urls, execution_parents, graphs, itw_domains, itw_ips, itw_urls, memory_pattern_domains, memory_pattern_ips, memory_pattern_urls, overlay_children, overlay_parents, pcap_children, pcap_parents, pe_resource_children, pe_resource_parents, related_references, related_threat_actors, similar_files, submissions, screenshots, urls_for_embedded_js, votes
  • limit (optional, default: 10): Maximum number of related objects to retrieve (1-40)
  • cursor (optional): Continuation cursor for pagination

3. IP Relationship Tool

• Name: get_ip_relationship
• Description: Query a specific relationship type for an IP address with pagination support. Choose from 15 relationship types including communicating files, historical SSL certificates, WHOIS records, resolutions, threat actors, and votes
• Parameters:
  • ip (required): IP address to analyze
  • relationship (required): Type of relationship to query
    • Available relationships: collections, comments, communicating_files, downloaded_files, graphs, historical_ssl_certificates, historical_whois, related_comments, related_references, related_threat_actors, referrer_files, resolutions, urls, user_votes, votes
  • limit (optional, default: 10): Maximum number of related objects to retrieve (1-40)
  • cursor (optional): Continuation curs