About
MalwareBazaar is a project operated by abuse.ch. The purpose of the project is to collect and share malware samples, helping IT-security researchers and threat analysts protecting their constituency and customers from cyber threats.
If you are a vendor and you would like to use data provided by MalwareBazaar, please have a quick look at the following pages:
Partnering with Spamhaus
Like abuse.ch, Spamhaus has a mission to strengthen trust and safety on the Internet, operating as an independent organization for over twenty years. This shared vision forms the foundation of our partnership, working together to provide the largest, independently crowdsourced intelligence of tracked malware and botnets.
Spamhaus is recognized as the trusted authority on IP and domain reputation. Globally, they protect 4.5 billion mailboxes and help secure networks against 11.7 million indicators of compromise (IOCs). Together, we build and maintain platforms and datasets to make the internet safer.
Partners
MalwareBazaar has integrated data and services from:
Hybrid Analysis
Hybrid Analysis - free malware analysis service that detects and analyzes unknown threats
Users
The following tools, products and services are using MalwareBazaar:
Technology
MalwareBazaar uses the following tools and services:
- Fastly as Content Delivery Network (CDN)
- Google Cloud Storage for storing malware samples
- Google Compute Engine for virtual machines
- Google Cloud SQL as database backend
- Ubuntu as prefered server OS
- Apache as prefered webserver
- Python as prefered scripting language
- PHP as prefered web scripting language
- Google Charts for generating statistics and charts
- Chart.js for generating statistics and charts
- Bootstrap for web design
- Font Awesome icons
- jQuery JavaScript library
- Bootstrap Tags Input for malware sample tagging (web)
- clipboard.js for web copy&paste functionality
- FAMFAMFAM flags
- Twitter OAuth for authentication
- MaxMind GeoLite2 Free for geo location
- ClamAV antivirus engine
- Trend Micro TLSH fuzzy matching library
- Trend Micro ELF Hash (telfhash) fuzzy matching library for ELF
- ssdeep fuzzy matching library
- yara pattern matching
- humanhash for generating Human-readable digests
- oletools for analyzing office documents
- gimphash to calculate an imphash equivalent for Go binaries
- Magika for AI powered file type identification
- TrID for file type identification
Special thanks
Special thanks to:
- Spamhaus for supporting the ongoing development and maintenance of MalwareBazaar
- @viql for beta testing
- @cocaman for beta testing, providing spam trap data and his git repository