Friday 7 February 2014
Maltrieve is the open source Python tool to collect Malware
samples for security researchers. Maltrieve originated as a fork of mwcrawler.
Its Python based tool to retrieves malware directly from the sources as listed
at a number of sites, including:
- Malc0de
- Malware Black List
- Malware Domain List
- Malware Patrol
- Sacour.cn
- VX Vault
- URLqery
- CleanMX
Other improvements include:
- Proxy support
- Multithreading for improved performance
- Logging of source URLs
- Multiple user agent support
- Better error handling
- VxCage and Cuckoo Sandbox support
