How to connect Virustotal to Claude Cowork

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Introduction

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Virustotal account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to scan this file hash for malware, get analysis report for suspicious URL, retrieve domain reputation details, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Virustotal to Claude Cowork

1. Open Customize

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

Claude Desktop connectors screen with Add custom connector selected

2. Add the Composio MCP server

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

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https://connect.composio.dev/mcp
Add custom connector dialog with Composio MCP server URL

3. Authorize in your browser

Click Connect. You'll be redirected to a browser window where you can authorize Composio to continue.

Composio authorization screen for Claude Cowork

4. Connect your Virustotal account

Back in Cowork, ask the agent to connect to Virustotal or give it any Virustotal-related task.

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "Scan this file hash for malware"
  • "Get analysis report for suspicious URL"
  • "Retrieve domain reputation details"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Cowork, and your Virustotal account is ready to use.

What is Claude Cowork?

Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agent for general knowledge work. It can use your computer, files, and connected applications to complete longer-running tasks across your work tools.

With Composio Connect, Cowork can securely access apps like Virustotal through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

What is the Virustotal MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Virustotal MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Virustotal account. It provides structured and secure access to malicious file, URL, domain, and IP analysis, so your agent can perform actions like scanning files, retrieving threat reports, investigating domains, and posting comments or verdicts on your behalf.

  • Comprehensive threat analysis retrieval: Instantly fetch detailed reports on files, URLs, domains, or IP addresses to understand their security reputation and scan results from dozens of antivirus engines.
  • Relationship and metadata insights: Have your agent explore related entities—such as domains linked to a file, or files associated with an IP address—along with receiving broad metadata about available VirusTotal operations.
  • Automated commenting and feedback: Use your agent to post contextual comments on any analyzed resource, making collaboration and documentation of findings much easier.
  • Community-driven voting: Submit harmless or malicious verdicts on files and URLs after reviewing analysis, helping to crowdsource threat intelligence and improve detection accuracy.
  • Latest user comment retrieval: Let your agent pull up the most recent comments on a file, URL, domain, or IP address to quickly access community feedback and insights.

Supported Tools & Triggers

Tools
Add VirusTotal CommentTool to add a comment to a virustotal resource (file, url, domain, or ip address).
Add VoteTool to add a vote (harmless/malicious) to a virustotal resource.
Get Analysis ReportTool to retrieve the analysis report of a file or url submission.
Get commentsTool to retrieve the latest comments on a virustotal resource.
Get Domain RelationshipsTool to retrieve relationship objects for a given domain.
Get Domain ReportTool to retrieve the analysis report of a domain.
Get File ReportTool to retrieve the analysis report of a file.
Get IP Address RelationshipsTool to retrieve objects related to a specific ip address by relationship type.
Get IP Address ReportTool to retrieve the analysis report of an ip address.
Get VirusTotal MetadataTool to retrieve virustotal metadata.
Get URL ReportTool to retrieve the analysis report of a url.
Get VotesTool to retrieve votes on files, urls, domains, or ip addresses.
Rescan FileTool to re-analyze a previously submitted file.
Scan URLTool to submit a url for scanning.
Search VirusTotalTool to search for objects in the virustotal database.
Upload FileTool to upload a file for scanning.

Available tools and triggers

After setup, the supported Virustotal tools and triggers listed on this page are available to Cowork through Composio Connect.

You can now ask Cowork to handle Virustotal workflows in natural language, from quick summaries and drafting tasks to more complex multi-step work across connected apps.

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FAQ

What are the differences in Tool Router MCP and Virustotal MCP?

With a standalone Virustotal MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Virustotal tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Virustotal and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Can I use Tool Router MCP with Claude Cowork?

Yes, you can. Claude Cowork fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Virustotal tools.

Can I manage the permissions and scopes for Virustotal while using Tool Router?

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Virustotal scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

How safe is my data with Composio Tool Router?

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Virustotal data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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