Maltrieve originated as a fork of mwcrawler. It retrieves malware directly from the sources as listed at a number of sites, including:
These lists will be implemented if/when they return to activity.
Other improvements include:
- Proxy support
- Multithreading for improved performance
- Logging of source URLs
- Multiple user agent support
- Better error handling
- VxCage and Cuckoo Sandbox support
Dependencies
- Python 2 (2.6 should be sufficient)
- BeautifulSoup version 4
- lxml