Just a program I used to collect data for part of a school project comparing Malwarebytes and Microsoft Defender.
I may or may not turn this into some kind of utility, I have not decided.
You will need to install the Rust compiler, in addition to the cargo ecosystem. My recommended method for installing all of this software is using Rustup.
Next, sign up for a VirusTotal account and obtain an API key.
Then through your method of choice, set the environment variable VTAPI to your VirusTotal API key.
After installing the required software and obtaining an API key, either clone or download this repository. If downloading this repository, extract the archive.
Upon the obtainment of the repository, enter your terminal emulator of choice and change your directory to the repository directory.
Once you're within the repository directory, run the command $ cargo run, or $ cargo run --release. Both of these commands will download the dependencies, compile the program, and execute it. The second command is more optimized and is smaller, however, frankly, that's not exactly necessary for my purposes.
If you wish to change the number of samples that will be utilized in the VirusTotal data collection, append a space followed by your number of choice (must be a natural number). For example, $ cargo run 100 if I wanted to gather data on 100 of the scraped samples.