Security News > 2022 > December > VirusTotal cheat sheet makes it easy to search for specific results
VirusTotal has published a cheat sheet to help researchers create queries leading to more specific results from the malware intelligence platform.
File search modifiers can assist with refining the output but the cheat sheet shows how they can be combined in real-world scenarios to find particular data.
Using a specific 'entity' search modifier, analysts can look for files according to IP addresses, domains, URLs, or files.
VirusTotal's cheat sheet covers examples of real-life cases where file search modifiers filter data signed by specific vendors and emails from a certain server that have an attachment or not.
VirusTotal's cheat sheet is just three pages at the moment but it packs multiple categories of keyword combinations to find malicious or suspicious files.
VirusTotal plans to update the cheat sheet with fresh options that would make searching intelligence on the platform easier, quicker, and more targeted.