Benchmarking Label Dynamics of VirusTotal Engines
Shuofei Zhu, Ziyi Zhang, Limin Yang, Linhai Song, Gang Wang · 2020
VirusTotal is the largest online anti-malware scanning service. It is widely used by security researchers for labeling malware data or serving as a comparison baseline. However, several important challenges of using VirusTotal are left unaddressed (e.g., whether VirusTotal labels are already stable, when VirusTotal labels can be trusted), severely harming the correctness of research projects depending on VirusTotal.