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Connect Virustotal to WhatsApp: comments by chat
Flann is an AI agent your business talks to on WhatsApp. Connect Virustotal once, then ask Flann to look things up in it or get work done in it, by text or voice note. Virustotal is a technical tool. If your business or your developer uses it, Flann can reach it from WhatsApp too.
16 actions in Virustotal. 11 only look things up, and 5 create, update, send or delete. You connect with your API key.
What you can ask Flann to do in Virustotal
Send any of these on WhatsApp, in your own words. Flann finds the right Virustotal action and fills in the details from the conversation.
“Look up the file report in Virustotal.”
“Look up the domain report in Virustotal.”
“Look up the analysis report in Virustotal.”
“Upload a file in Virustotal.”
“Add a comment in Virustotal.”
“Add a vote in Virustotal.”
What Flann can work with in Virustotal
Virustotal gives Flann 16 actions across 9 kinds of record. These are the ones you are most likely to use.
| Record | What Flann can do | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| Comments | addlook up | 2 |
| Votes | addlook up | 2 |
There are three ways to get comments work done in Virustotal. Side by side:
| Compare | Virustotal on its ownEvery step is yours | A rules toolRuns the steps you wired up | With FlannThe work comes to your chat |
|---|---|---|---|
| How you ask | Open the app and find the right page | Only what was wired up in advance | A WhatsApp message, typed or spoken |
| Finding answers about comments | Filters and searches you run yourself | Only the look-ups someone built | 11 look-ups, answered straight away |
| Making changes | Typed in by hand | Run unchecked once built | 5 changes, made from a message |
| Virustotal records | All of them, one screen at a time | Only the ones you wire up | 9 kinds, from one chat |
| Getting connected | Nothing new to set up | Someone builds and maintains each flow | Your Virustotal API key, once |
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Step by step: Virustotal jobs you can hand to Flann
Each step below names the Virustotal action Flann actually runs.
Create a comment from a voice note
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Create a comment in Virustotal with these details.”
- Flann runs
Get commentsin Virustotal and shows you what it found. - Flann runs
Add VirusTotal Commentin Virustotal. - Flann creates it in Virustotal and confirms in the chat.
Get answers about your votes
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “What is the latest on our votes in Virustotal?”
- Flann runs
Get Votesin Virustotal and shows you what it found. - Nothing in Virustotal is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Check your analysis reports from WhatsApp
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Show me where our analysis reports in Virustotal stand.”
- Flann runs
Get Analysis Reportin Virustotal and shows you what it found. - Nothing in Virustotal is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Repetitive Virustotal work Flann takes off your plate
These are the jobs that come back every day or every week. Message Flann instead, and keep the decisions for yourself.
Alerts in plain English
Today
Alert emails from Virustotal arrive full of codes and thresholds. You cannot tell an urgent one from a routine one, so you either ignore them all or worry about every one.
With Flann
“What does this alert from Virustotal mean? Should I worry?”
Flann reads the alert and the context around it in Virustotal, then explains what happened in a couple of plain sentences. It says whether it looks serious and who usually handles that kind of thing.
What you stop doing: Guessing which alerts matter is no longer your job.
Overnight problems, summarised
Today
Errors build up overnight. Nobody reads the logs until something breaks in front of a customer.
With Flann
“Anything go wrong overnight on our systems?”
Flann reads the overnight errors and incidents in Virustotal, groups the repeats and ranks what is left by how much it affects customers. You get the few things worth knowing. Nothing is changed; this is a report.
What you stop doing: No more scrolling through logs you were never meant to read.
More on this: how to hand repetitive tasks to an AI agent on WhatsApp.
How Flann connects to Virustotal
- Search for Virustotal in Flann’s Connectors.
- Paste your Virustotal API key into the secure form Flann opens. You will find the key in your Virustotal account settings.
- Go back to WhatsApp and ask for what you need. Flann chooses the Virustotal action and fills in the details.
Look-ups run as soon as you ask and change nothing in Virustotal. You can disconnect Virustotal from Connectors at any time.
Ways to use Virustotal with Flann
Make a change safely
Tell Flann what to change.
Check status from your phone
Ask Flann whether everything is running. It checks Virustotal and answers in the chat.
Problems in plain words
Ask what went wrong overnight. Flann reads Virustotal and explains it without the jargon.
Everything Flann can do in Virustotal
The full list of Virustotal actions available to Flann once you connect it.
Looks up 11
- Get Analysis Report
- Get Domain Report
- Get File Report
- Get IP Address Report
- Get URL Report
- Get VirusTotal Metadata
- Search VirusTotal
- Get comments
- Get Domain Relationships
- Get IP Address Relationships
- Get Votes
Changes 5
- Rescan File
- Scan URL
- Upload File
- Add VirusTotal Comment
- Add Vote
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What can Flann do with comments in Virustotal?
Flann can add and look up comments in Virustotal, using 2 actions (Add VirusTotal Comment, Get comments). Looking up runs straight away and changes nothing. The other actions create or change comments in Virustotal.
What can Flann do with votes in Virustotal?
Flann can add and look up votes in Virustotal, using 2 actions (Add Vote, Get Votes). Looking up runs straight away and changes nothing. The other actions create or change votes in Virustotal.
How does Flann connect to Virustotal?
Open Connectors in Flann, choose Virustotal and paste your Virustotal API key into a secure form. You will find the key in your Virustotal account settings. Once it is connected, Flann can use 16 actions in Virustotal.
Can I use Virustotal from WhatsApp?
Yes. You talk to Flann on WhatsApp or in the Flann app, by text or voice note, and Flann works in Virustotal for you. You do not need to open Virustotal.
Is Virustotal included in my Flann plan?
Yes. Every Flann plan includes every app, Virustotal included.