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VirusTotal YARA Hunting - Livehunt API

YARA Hunting - Livehunt

GitHub OpenAPI
Business capability
Threat Detection & Response Management BC-620.30

Operations 17

GET /intelligence/hunting_notification_files VirusTotal Retrieve File Objects for Livehunt Notifications #
DELETE /intelligence/hunting_notifications VirusTotal Delete Livehunt Notifications #
GET /intelligence/hunting_notifications VirusTotal Get Livehunt Notifications #
DELETE /intelligence/hunting_notifications/{id} VirusTotal Delete a Livehunt Notification #
GET /intelligence/hunting_notifications/{id} VirusTotal Get a Livehunt Notification Object #
DELETE /intelligence/hunting_rulesets VirusTotal Remove All Livehunt Rulesets #
GET /intelligence/hunting_rulesets VirusTotal Get Livehunt Rulesets #
POST /intelligence/hunting_rulesets VirusTotal Create a New Livehunt Ruleset #
DELETE /intelligence/hunting_rulesets/{id} VirusTotal Delete a Livehunt Ruleset #
GET /intelligence/hunting_rulesets/{id} VirusTotal Get a Livehunt Ruleset #
PATCH /intelligence/hunting_rulesets/{id} VirusTotal Update a Livehunt Ruleset #
POST /intelligence/hunting_rulesets/{id}/relationships/editors VirusTotal Grant Livehunt Ruleset Edit Permissions for a User or Group #
DELETE /intelligence/hunting_rulesets/{id}/relationships/editors/{user_or_group_id} VirusTotal Revoke Livehunt Ruleset Edit Permission from a User or Group #
GET /intelligence/hunting_rulesets/{id}/relationships/editors/{user_or_group_id} VirusTotal Check if a User or Group is a Livehunt Ruleset Editor #
POST /intelligence/hunting_rulesets/{id}/relationships/owner VirusTotal Transfer Livehunt Ruleset to Another User #
GET /intelligence/hunting_rulesets/{id}/relationships/{relationship} VirusTotal Get Object Descriptors Related to a Livehunt Ruleset #
GET /intelligence/hunting_rulesets/{id}/{relationship} VirusTotal Get Objects Related to a Livehunt Ruleset #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://docs.virustotal.com/reference/overview
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APIReference
https://gtidocs.virustotal.com/reference/overview
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Documentation
https://docs.virustotal.com/reference/feeds
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Documentation
https://docs.virustotal.com/reference/files
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Documentation
https://docs.virustotal.com/reference/private-scanning
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Documentation
https://docs.virustotal.com/reference/graphs
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Documentation
https://docs.virustotal.com/reference/collections
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Documentation
https://docs.virustotal.com/reference/livehunt

Specifications

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/virustotal/refs/heads/main/openapi/virustotal-yara-hunting-livehunt-api-openapi.yml

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OpenAPI Specification

virustotal-yara-hunting-livehunt-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: VirusTotal API v3 - YARA Hunting (Livehunt, Retrohunt, IoC…
  version: '3.0'
  description: Livehunt, Retrohunt, the IoC Stream, and crowdsourced YARA rules — VirusTotal's hunting and notification surface.
  contact:
    name: VirusTotal / Google Threat Intelligence
    url: https://docs.virustotal.com/reference/overview
  license:
    name: VirusTotal Terms of Service
    url: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/terms-of-service
  x-generated-from: https://storage.googleapis.com/gtidocresources/guides/GTI_API_v3_openapi_spec_10022025.json
  x-last-validated: '2026-05-29'
servers:
- url: https://www.virustotal.com/api/v3
  description: VirusTotal / GTI API v3 production.
security:
- VTApiKey: []
tags:


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