virustotal_scan_ip

What virustotal_scan_ip does on UnClick

AI agents call virustotal_scan_ip to retrieve information from UnClick without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Parameters from the server's own tool schema.

Why virustotal_scan_ip is rated Low

This tool queries VirusTotal's API to retrieve a security report for a given IP address. It is a read-only operation that retrieves and presents data without causing side effects. While the data concerns security threats, the tool itself performs no destructive, financial, or code-execution actions. The user agent gains informational intelligence but cannot directly harm systems through this tool alone.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'virustotal_scan_ip' and description 'Get a VirusTotal report for an IP address' indicate retrieval of existing threat intelligence data with no modifications, deletions, or external state changes.

Risk signalsHandles credentials or secrets (api_key)

The rule that runs virustotal_scan_ip safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and UnClick, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For virustotal_scan_ip, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "virustotal_scan_ip": {}
  }
}

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