Upload a file on the UI

How to upload and scan a file?

Step 1- Go to filescan.io/scan page

(replace the domain with your local/cloud version) and

• drag & drop or
• upload a file via file browser after clicking on the box with the owl.

Uploading a file via File Browse

Step 2 - Customize analysis options

Basic Options

Set the most important analysis options for your upload

Tags: You can add some description with #tags

Optional You can apply some optional settings:

• Password: You could provide a password for password-protected archives. The following common password will be applied automatically if archive uses common password:

  • “infected”
  • “malware”
  • “virus”
  • “password”

• Do not share file: This setting prohibits other community members from accessing the file. However, the reports remain public (Including screenshots and extracted texts.)

• Skip whitelisted: If the file is detected as "whitelisted", the file won't be scanned and report won't be created.

Advanced Options

Optional Authentication required For advanced options you must be authenticated. Advanced options are:

• Pre-configured analysis options: It excludes the apply_fine-tune_analysis use case. If you apply this setting, then the system will apply a preconfigured profile to execute the scan.

  • Rapid mode - Most simple analysis, disable multiple individual options

• Fine-tune key aspects of your analysis: You can choose from the following list. The selection is optional. It is not required to select at least one.

  • YARA (Basic) - Enabling YARA rule matches on input file
  • YARA (All) - Enabling YARA rule matches on extracted artefacts
  • File visualization - Enabling file visualization (e.g. PDF rendering)
  • Images OCR - Enabling OCR text recognition on extracted images
  • File downloads - Enabling downloading files from extracted URLs
  • OSINT Lookups - Enable OSINT Lookups globally
  • OSINT Lookups (Basic) - Enable OSINT Lookups on the IOCs related to the input file
  • OSINT Lookups (All) - Enable OSINT Lookups also on the extracted artifacts
  • Domain resolving - Enable Resolving domains to the IPs (DNS)
  • WHOIS - Enable WHOIS record lookups
  • IP geolocation - Enable metadata lookups for Extracted IDs

• Personalization: You can apply this feature to save the selected configuration.

  • Save preset

Step 3 - Accept the Term of Use and Privacy Policy

Required For scan it is necessary to accept the Term of Use and Privacy Policy.

Step 4 - After clicking the Upload button, the scanning starts.

The report will appear after the scanning is finished.