Check suspicious files against VirusTotal and alert your team

When a security alert flags a suspicious file, the system checks it against VirusTotal and notifies your team instantly.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Exactly one path is taken; a person is alerted when a step fails.

Pattern: Exclusive Choice (4) · Transient Trigger (23)

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Starts itA stepAn outside serviceA personOne path onlyResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
Email AutomationMessaging & NotificationsReporting & AnalyticsWeb Scraping & Data CollectionAPI & Webhook Integration
Connects
WazuhVirusTotalSlackGmail

The problem it solves

When your security monitoring flags a suspicious file, someone has to manually look up the file hash, decide if it's actually dangerous, and loop in the right people, all while the clock is ticking. That delay is exactly when a real threat can do the most damage.

Who it fits

IT and security teams who need faster triage on file-based threat alerts.

How it works

  1. A security alert comes in flagging a suspicious file
  2. The system pulls out the file's identifying details
  3. It checks the file's reputation against VirusTotal's threat database
  4. A summary report is emailed to your team
  5. If the file is confirmed malicious, an urgent alert goes to Slack and an incident ticket is created
What you get

Threats confirmed and flagged fast

Suspicious files get checked against VirusTotal automatically and your team is alerted the moment a real threat is confirmed.

What you get

An instant threat summary, an email report, and a Slack alert or incident ticket for confirmed threats.

What you need

A Wazuh security monitoring setup, a VirusTotal API account, Gmail, and Slack.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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