Download HTML analysis report for a submission.
AI agents call download_html_report to retrieve information from Threat Zone MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and returns an existing HTML report from a malware analysis service. It reads data without side effects—no reversible modifications (Write), code execution (Execute), data deletion (Destructive), or financial impact. While the report contains threat intelligence about malicious files, downloading a report is fundamentally a Read operation.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'download_html_report' and description states 'Download HTML analysis report for a submission.' The verb 'download' combined with 'report' indicates retrieval of pre-existing analysis results without modification, deletion, or execution of code.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access download_html_report gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Threat Zone MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for download_html_report:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"download_html_report": {}
}
}download_html_report is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Download HTML analysis report for a submission. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Threat Zone MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Threat Zone MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for download_html_report: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Threat Zone MCP Server. Nothing to install.
download_html_report is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the download_html_report rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for download_html_report. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
download_html_report is provided by the Threat Zone MCP Server MCP server (threat-zone/threatzonemcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Threat Zone MCP Server, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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