Upload a sample to VirusTotal and pretty print the report. All in a handy alias.

virustotal_upload

#
# Upload a sample to VirusTotal and pretty print the report. All in a handy alias.  
#
# Dependecies:
#
#  * python > 2.7
#  * pip install Pygments==1.4
#  * curl
#  * VirusTotal API key
#

virustotal_upload() {
    apikey="<APIKEY>"
    echo "$(tput setaf 7)Uploading $1 to VirusTotal$(tput sgr0)"
    vt_hash=$(curl -X POST 'https://www.virustotal.com/vtapi/v2/file/scan' --form apikey=$apikey --form file=@"$(realpath $1)" | grep -o '"[0-9|a-f]{64}"' | head -1 | sed 's/"//g')
    echo "$(tput setaf 4)SHA256:$vt_hash waiting for report..$(tput sgr0)"
    
    while true; do
      response=`curl -X POST 'https://www.virustotal.com/vtapi/v2/file/report' --form apikey=$apikey --form resource=$vt_hash 2>/dev/null`
      echo `echo $response|grep -o '"scans"'`
      if [ $(echo -n "$response"|grep -o '"response_code": 1'| wc -l) -eq 1 ]; then
        echo "$response" | python -mjson.tool | pygmentize -l javascript -f console | less -r
        break;
      fi
      echo -e -n "$(tput setaf 7).$(tput sgr0)\r"
      sleep 5
    done
}
alias virustotal=virustotal_upload 

nice alias. i turned it into a quick script at https://gist.github.com/mattghali/23cbd045f6ce78d7a4efd2a2010e33cc that uses jq to format the output a bit too.