malware-scanning-website

🛡️ Malware Scanning Web Application

This project is a simple Flask-based web application that:

• Allows users to upload files
• Uploads the files to a Google Cloud Storage (GCS) bucket
• Scans the uploaded files using ClamAV antivirus
• Sends the files to VirusTotal for additional scanning (optional)
• Logs scan results into Google BigQuery

/prjFolder
│
├── app.py              # Main Flask app
├── scanner.py          # File scanning logic (ClamAV + VirusTotal)
├── upload.py           # Upload route and GCS integration
├── requirements.txt    # Python dependencies
├── Dockerfile          # Docker build configuration
├── .dockerignore       # Files to exclude during Docker build
├── README.md           # Project documentation
├── /templates
│   └── index.html     # Frontend HTML form
│   └── upload.html     # Frontend HTML form
│   └── report.html     # Frontend report HTML form
└── /static             # (optional) Static assets like CSS, JS

⚙️ Requirements

1. Python Dependencies Install Python packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

2. System Dependencies Install ClamAV (for local antivirus scanning):

sudo apt update
sudo apt install clamav clamav-daemon
sudo freshclam  # Update virus definitions

3. Environment Variables Create a .env file in your project root folder with the following content:

VT_API_KEY=

☁️ Deploy to Google Cloud Run

python3 main.py