@TechTeamer/avastscan

NodeJS binding for Avast Linux Antivirus

Avast-Server

avast-server is a utility to scan files through http requests without the files originally being in the same machine.

Documentation

• node .bin/avast-server You can set the following env variables

• AVAST_SERVER_PORT (default: 4311) Wev Server Port

• AVAST_SERVER_REQ_SIZE_LIMIT (default: 50mb) Maximum request size that the web server accepts. NOTE: use the format (size)mb (or kb, etc)

• AVAST_SERVER_MAX_TIMEOUT (default: 30000) Time out for requests. (In miliseconds)

• AVAST_SERVER_SOCK_FILE (default: /var/run/avast/scan.sock) Socket file for avast

Endpoints

/scan POST

parameters

file {{ File to scan }}

response examples

{
  "is_infected": false,
  "is_excluded": false
}

{
  "is_infected": true,
  "malware_name": "malware name"
}

/info GET

response examples

{
   "version": "3.0.3",
   "virusDefinitionsVersion": "21040804"
}

Avast Client

Avast client needs to be instantiated with an options object as parameter.

{
  baseURL: 'http://my-avast-server-url', // URL of Avast Server
  timeout: 10000 //timewut for requests in MS, default is 30000
}