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Submit a Remote File to WildFire (API)

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Submit a Remote File to WildFire (API)

Submit a supported file type on a website for WildFire analysis. Use this resource for files hosted remotely and not website URLs.

The /submit/url resource is not available on the WildFire appliance.
When submitting supported script files, you must specify an accurate filename using the context parameter, otherwise WildFire is unable to parse the file and returns a 418 Unsupported File Type response.

Resource

/submit/url/

Request Parameters

Use the following form parameters when you submit a single file for WildFire analysis:

Parameters	Description	Example
apikey	( `Required`) API key	Example: apikey=<API KEY>
agent	(`Required for Prisma Access and Prisma Cloud Compute-based WildFire public API keys`) Designates the API key type	Example: agent=pcc Options include: pcc—for use with Prisma Cloud Compute-based WildFire public API keys prismaaccessapi—for use with Prisma Access-based WildFire public API keys
url	( `Required`) Remote file URL path	Example: url=http://www.pdf995.com/samples/pdf.pdf
context	(`Required for script, ASP/ASPX, and XML/HTML filetype submissions`) Specify the filename of the sample. The following file types are supported: JScript (.js) VBScript (.vbs) PowerShell (.ps1) Shell Script (.sh) Perl Script (.pl) Batch files (.bat) Comma-separated files (.csv) Symbolic Link (.slk) Internet Query (.iqy) Script (.cmd) HTML Application (.hta) Python (.py, .pyc) Markup Language (.html, .xml) ASP.NET (.asp, .aspx)	context=<base64 encoded json string> Example: context=eyJmaWxlbmFtZSI6ICJ0ZXN0LnNoIn0= Whereby eyJmaWxlbmFtZSI6ICJ0ZXN0LnNoIn0= is decoded to the following JSON string: {"filename": "test.sh"}

Example Request 1

Make a POST request to the /submit/url resource and include the API key along with the URL file path to analyze, as shown in the following cURL command:

curl
-F 'apikey=<API KEY>' -F 'url=http://www.pdf995.com/samples/pdf.pdf'
'https://wildfire.paloaltonetworks.com/publicapi/submit/url'

The XML response contains the URL of the file along with the SHA256 and MD5 hash:

<wildfire>
				<upload-file-info>
				<url>http://www.pdf995.com/samples/pdf.pdf</url>
				<filetype>Adobe PDF document</filetype>
				<filename></filename>
				<sha256>857b6bb4c61fc81eee716b4cada4902f0ad73b1daa9a1fb75e005b38e62800b4</sha256>
				<md5>a4b5f81544801fa2b6007bd5046f1d73</md5>
				<size>312819</size>
				</upload-file-info>
				</wildfire>

Example Request 2

Make a POST request to the /submit/url resource and include the API key, the URL script file path to analyze, as well as the context (the filename) in a base64 encoded json string format, as shown in the following cURL command:

curl -F 'apikey=<API KEY>'
-F 'url=https://www.testserver/test.sh’ -F context=’eyJmaWxlbmFtZSI6ICJ0ZXN0LnNoIn0=' https://wildfire.paloaltonetworks.com/publicapi/submit/url

The XML response contains the URL of the file along with the SHA256 and MD5 hash:


				<wildfire>
				<upload-file-info>
				<url>https://testserver/test.sh</url>
				<filetype>Shell</filetype>
				<filename></filename>
				<sha256>dbc2aa04c02e06e61f3acdba528bb1536ccbb1758a29dc8d25438c2d3ce07e7d</sha256>
				<md5>b0cfc14687e42e2236db247f5c7d861a</md5>
				<size>10740</size>
				</upload-file-info>
				</wildfire>

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