How to scan a file with antivirus on upload in Jav

Question

I am working on an application which requires file upload and it also requires to scan the file with available antivirus on server.

I have heard abt APIS available from Symantec for application server.

Situatuion is like, I need to deploy the application at different places in the future. So, I am thinking to place a configuration file from where I am going to fetch available Antivirus & its path.

I want to use any available antivirus on server and then using command line, I want to pass file name and result back.

I am confused in passing file and retrieving back results.

Is it possible?

Answer 1

Use VirusTotal Public API V2.0 implementation in Java and Go written by VIGHNESWAR RAO
available at https://vighnesh.me/virustotal
it has rich features to scan files, URLs, domains, IP addresses and to get a detailed report about scan.
with this API your files will be scanned with 56 antivirus engines. and all antivirus engines are run in virustotal cloud so especially you no need to maintain or run any antivirus engines.
an important feature of this API is it has methods to accept java.io.FileInputStream or java.io.File as arguments.
All API features are clearly explained with examples.
to use this api
step-1: create an account in http://virustotal.com (VirusTotal, a subsidiary of Google) and get API key(100% free)
step-2: visit https://vighnesh.me/virustotal and download required jar files
step-3: just use the methods provided by API.
you can use examples provided at https://vighnesh.me/virustotal/Java/examples.html OR https://vighnesh.me/virustotal/Go/examples.html

Answer 2

I just googled up and found an interesting article have a look at here

To implement a virus file scan in Java, a third-party package needs to be used. For the purposes of this article, I will use Symantec Scan Engine (SSE) package, which comes with Java APIs. This package is an application that serves as a TCP/IP server and has a programming interface and enables Java applications to incorporate support for content scanning technologies. For this article, I used Symantec Scan Engine 5.1, which is available as a Unix or Windows install.

quick reference:

public void scanFile(byte[] fileBytes, String fileName)
   throws IOException, Exception {

   if (scan) {
      AVClient avc = new AVClient(avServer, avPort, avMode);
      if (avc.scanfile(fileName, fileBytes) == -1) {
         throw new VirusException("WARNING: A virus was detected in
            your attachment: " + fileName + "<br>Please scan
            your system with the latest antivirus software with
            updated virus definitions and try again.");
      }
   }
}

then

catch (Exception ex) {
   logger.error(ex);
   if (ex instanceof VirusException) {
      // do something here
   }
   else {
      // there was some other error – handle it
   }
}

Answer 3

Use the following code.

String[] commands =  new String[5];
                  commands[0] = "cmd";
                  commands[1] = "/c";
                  commands[2] = "C:\\Program Files\\AVG\\AVG10\\avgscanx.exe";
                  commands[3] = "/scan=" + filename;
                  commands[4] = "/report=" + virusoutput;


                 Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();
                 Process proc = rt.exec(commands);

Commnad line would be better option for you. then read the log file to solve the problem.