AI boosts Code Language and File Format identification on VirusTotal

VirusTotal introduces an AI-powered enhancement to identify programming languages and file formats within plain text files, leveraging a large language model (Sec-PaLM) to overcome limitations of extensions, magic numbers, and signatures. The update improves accuracy, adaptability, and coverage, adds nuanced labels (e.g., Perl, AutoIt) without breaking existing workflows, and enables indexed searching via type-based queries to help analysts find threats across a broader set of code languages and formats.