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Virustotal Collection Object Structure

A curated collection of IoCs — also used for Threat Actors, Malware & Tools, Campaigns, Reports, Vulnerabilities.

Type: object Properties: 5 Required: 3

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CollectionObject is a JSON Structure definition published by VirusTotal, describing 5 properties, of which 3 are required. It conforms to the https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/# meta-schema.

Properties

id type links attributes relationships

Meta-schema: https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/#

JSON Structure

{
  "$schema": "https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/#",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/virustotal/refs/heads/main/json-structure/virustotal-collection-object-structure.json",
  "name": "CollectionObject",
  "description": "A curated collection of IoCs \u2014 also used for Threat Actors, Malware & Tools, Campaigns, Reports, Vulnerabilities.",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Object identifier."
    },
    "type": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Object type discriminator."
    },
    "links": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Hypermedia links.",
      "properties": {
        "self": {
          "type": "uri"
        }
      }
    },
    "attributes": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Type-specific attributes for CollectionObject.",
      "properties": {
        "name": {
          "type": "string",
          "example": "Emotet Campaign 2026-04"
        },
        "description": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "collection_type": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": [
            "collection",
            "campaign",
            "malware-family",
            "report",
            "software-toolkit",
            "threat-actor",
            "vulnerability"
          ]
        },
        "creation_date": {
          "type": "int32"
        },
        "last_modification_date": {
          "type": "int32"
        },
        "files_count": {
          "type": "int32"
        },
        "domains_count": {
          "type": "int32"
        },
        "ip_addresses_count": {
          "type": "int32"
        },
        "urls_count": {
          "type": "int32"
        },
        "owner": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "tags": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        },
        "targeted_regions": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "description": "ISO country codes targeted."
        },
        "targeted_industries": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        },
        "motivations": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "description": "Espionage, Financial, Hacktivism, etc."
        }
      }
    },
    "relationships": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Pre-expanded relationships, keyed by relationship name.",
      "additionalProperties": true
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "id",
    "type",
    "attributes"
  ]
}