[Maltrieve] A tool to retrieve malware directly from the source for security researchers

Maltrieve originated as a fork of mwcrawler. It retrieves malware directly from the sources as listed at a number of sites, including:

• Malc0de
• Malware Black List
• Malware Domain List
• Malware Patrol
• Sacour.cn
• VX Vault
• URLqery
• CleanMX

These lists will be implemented if/when they return to activity.

• NovCon Minotaur

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

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