virustotal

what does the term "undetected" of virustotal mean?
Does it mean "clean"?
Or does it mean : engine was not able to determine the status of the file? (=? no engines detected this file)

Below is from their support area.



1) A list of each reviewing partner and their findings. Possible findings are:

• Undetected: The given engine does not detect the file as malicious.
• Suspicious: The given engine flags the file as suspicious.
• Unable to process file type: The given engine does not understand the type of file submitted and so will not produce verdicts for it.
• Timeout: The given engine reached VirusTotal's time execution limit when processing the file and so no verdicts were recorded for it.

Make of that what you will.

Take a look at this PDF:

Search it for the word "detected". I got 21 hits, some related to Virustotal.

https://www.virusbulletin.com/upload...017-Abrams.pdf

dear ignatzatsonic,

thanks for your info.
I found why virustotal use the word "undetected" and not "clean":

"We do not use the word "clean" or "innocuous" because antivirus solutions do not tell you whether a file is goodware, they just flag maliciousness."