CAPE Sandbox vs VirusTotal Intelligence
CAPE Sandbox
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| Figure | CAPE Sandbox | VirusTotal Intelligence |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 2 | 2 |
| Spec score · Malware Analysis Sandboxes | 9.0 (#3) | 6.5 (#19) |
| Integrations | The documentation covers integrations with Box-js, LibreNMS, and Suricata, and describes CAPE's modular design for integrating external services. | VirusTotal documents third-party integrations for security workflows including alert triage, event enrichment, false-positive discarding, detection, and response. |
| Support | The project points users to its FAQ, community discussion, and GitHub issue tracker, and says beta or development builds generally do not receive support. | The maker directs users seeking pricing information to contact VirusTotal with their use case and usage estimates for a quote. |
Plans
VirusTotal Intelligence
- Standard tiersPriced on request
- Threat Hunter PROPriced on request
In their own words
CAPE Sandbox
CAPE Sandbox is an open-source malware analysis tool that runs suspicious files in isolated virtual machines, monitors their behavior, and collects forensic artifacts. It can record execution activity, files created or changed, network traffic in PCAP format, screenshots, and memory dumps. CAPE also performs dynamic malware unpacking, applies YARA classification to unpacked payloads, and extracts malware configurations through static and dynamic analysis.
Documented analysis targets include Windows executables and DLLs, PDFs, Office files, URLs, HTML, scripts, ZIP files, and Java JARs. A debugger can use YARA signatures for custom unpacking and configuration extractors, anti-sandbox countermeasures, and instruction traces. The Django web interface supports submissions, report browsing, and searching results; a REST API and Python functions support automated file and URL analysis. Setup requires host and guest machines, with each analysis run in a fresh virtual machine. GNU/Linux, preferably Ubuntu LTS, is the recommended host, and Windows 10 or Windows 11 23H2 the recommended guest. CAPE is free and self-hosted, and is distributed without warranty.
VirusTotal Intelligence
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