Abuse.ch Launches Free Malware Repository 'MalwareBazaar'

guest · Mar 23, 2020

Abuse.ch Launches Free Malware Repository
...aims to make it easy for the community to share known malware samples and access additional intelligence on them
March 23, 2020
https://www.securityweek.com/abusech-launches-free-malware-repository

Called MalwareBazaar, the service is provided for free for both commercial and non-commercial usage, and only collects known malware samples, which are then shared with the community. Only vetted malware samples are accepted, but not adware or potentially unwanted applications (PUA/PUP).

Using the service, anyone can download as many malware samples as they like, search for samples by malware family name, fuzzy hashing and tags, and access additional information about malware samples distributed via email by using spamtrap data.

The need for MalwareBazaar, the founder says, emerged from the fact that publicly available open source intelligence (OSINT), despite being a great resource for threat intelligence, doesn’t always allow researchers to also download referenced malware samples to perform their own analysis.

“You need to register on gazillion different online anti-virus scanning engines, sandboxes or malware databases in order to finally obtain the malware sample you need for your analysis,” abuse.ch notes.
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Unlike VirusTotal, MalwareBazaar does not feature a multi anti-virus scanner, but allows anyone to download submitted samples, for free (VirusTotal makes submitted files available to paying customers only).
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