{"id":1926,"date":"2021-11-18T11:52:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T11:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"\/cybersecurity-blog\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2025-11-13T09:01:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:01:27","slug":"free-malware-samples-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/cybersecurity-blog\/free-malware-samples-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Get Free Malware Samples and Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Malware hunters often look for malicious objects to investigate threat features and build protection strategies. The hindrance for striving cybersecurity specialists is to access new malicious code samples to practice on. ANY.RUN is an excellent resource that lets get any sample malware file for testing for free. In this post, we will tell you how to do it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where can you get malware samples?  <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

ANY.RUN<\/a> is an online interactive sandbox with a vast malware sample database of 6,2m public submissions<\/strong>. Each registered user can make use of these tasks to rerun and analyze a sample, get reports and IOCs, and download malware for testing. Fresh samples are delivered constantly. Researchers worldwide comprise this collection and run more than 14k tasks every day. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The \u201cPublic submissions\u201d window is where you can dive into fresh malware samples and explore malware techniques. Here you can go through all the tasks that service users upload publicly. Users of premium subscriptions have an opportunity to analyze their tasks privately. So the window above includes only public submissions that a user chose to share with the community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to find a specific malware sample? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

During the research, you may need an exact malicious program. To save your time in the search, ANY.RUN service has a helpful filter system. You can navigate through  numerous samples using the following parameters: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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