Good morning,

Our virus exchange website is going through a serious overhaul. Moving forward, all samples submitted will automatically upload to VirusTotal. The sample uploaded will subsequently be tagged and/or renamed using the VirusTotal 'Popular threat label' naming convention.

If in the event a popular threat label is not present, but it still holds a sufficiently high enough threat score, it will default to the Kaspersky naming convention.

All malware files will be retained — even junk file infectors like Padodor or Berbrew. If the file is not malware we will delete it. We only want malware.

Additionally, each day our virus exchange will release a 'daily dump' 7z file. This will be every file submitted, named as stated previously, and synced to vx-underground to be available for bulk download.

An API is available for programmatic access to virus exchange. Some users have created unofficial wrappers in Python to ease API access to our malware database.

This is all free of charge. Anyone, anywhere, can access this resource and download as much as they'd like. However, we ask you consider donating to allow this to continue. Furthermore, if you're unhappy with the performance of the site, we advise larger companies to consider becoming monthly sponsors. A system at this scale, while remaining free of charge, is not easy.

We hope moving forward we can give back to individuals who submit and share samples with us by offering rewards to valued contributors... but that's a conversation at a later date and later time.

Thanks,
- smelly