Filestack File Malware Scanner

File malware scanner and detection into your file upload process via Filestack workflows. Protect your customers from malware and malicious programs no matter their file type. File scanners aren’t just digital gatekeepers; they play a grander orchestration role in a plethora of tools that keep the world safe from data spills: firewalls, intrusion detectors, antivirus software, sandboxes and many others. Keeping them efficient and effective is a challenge since attackers are constantly upgrading their tactics and techniques to overcome them. For this reason, it’s essential that file scanners be optimized to operate on several operational depths.

File Malware Scanner: Detect and Remove Threats Instantly

Static signature-based detection is a solid starting point, enabling you to scan files for known fingerprints of malware. However, malware authors use packing and compression technologies to conceal attributes from static scanners. Therefore, heuristics are required to analyze a program’s behavior (e.g., modifying system locations) and determine whether or not it’s harmful to the system.

Behavioral analysis can take the form of running a program in a sandbox or virtual environment, or by observing a program’s actions as it’s being executed on a real device. Additionally, a deeper structural constitution of the program—like parent-child associations and stagnated residing—can reveal suspicious characteristics. Lastly, the metadata of scanned files can be shared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and/or submitted to the Sample Submission Portal for further analysis. You can also create suppression rules to prevent recurring false positives. In addition, you can continuously export security alerts to a SIEM using the Microsoft Sentinel connector or another SIEM of your choice.