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Re-scan a file

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Private API

This endpoint is available in the Private API only.

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Caution

This API has the potential to produce a denial of service on the scanning infrastructure if abused. Please contact us if you are going to be rescanning more than 50K files per day.

The resource argument can be the MD5, SHA-1 or SHA-256 of the file you want to re-scan.

{
  'response_code': 1,
  'scan_id': 'OGZmYjYxYjUxYWI0YTdhM2ViZWI5Zjc2MTE5ZTRiODE6MTY3ODM0ODYyNA==',
  'permalink': 'https://www.virustotal.com/file/__sha256hash__/analysis/1390472785/',
  'sha256': '54bc950d46a0d1aa72048a17c8275743209e6c17bdacfc4cb9601c9ce3ec9a71',
  'resource': '7657fcb7d772448a6d8504e4b20168b8'
}
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