PyTIA-D

A small personal project: a desktop app that looks up file hashes and URLs against the VirusTotal API and shows a short summary (verdict, detection ratio, analysis stats, and related fields).

This is not a production tool—just something I built for my own use and learning.

Requirements

• Windows (the packaged build is a Windows executable)
• A VirusTotal API key, set as the environment variable VirusTotal_API_Key

Option 1: Use the executable

1. Obtain a VirusTotal API key and set VirusTotal_API_Key in your user or system environment variables.
2. Run dist/pyThreat-intel-app.exe (or pyThreat-intel-app.exe if you have a copy at the project root).

The app opens a simple window with two panels: file hash lookup and URL lookup. Enter a SHA256 hash or URL and click Submit.

Option 2: Run from source

1. Install Python (the project was developed with a recent Python 3 release).

2. Set the VirusTotal_API_Key environment variable as above.

3. Install dependencies:

   pip install PySimpleGUI vt-py

4. From the project directory:

   python pyThreat-intel-app.py

Building the executable

If you change the source and want a new .exe, install PyInstaller and run:

pyinstaller pyThreat-intel-app.spec

The output is written under dist/.

Notes

• API lookups are subject to VirusTotal rate limits and account permissions.
• The console may print status messages when the app starts or when a URL check runs; the main interface is the GUI window.