LevelBlue (formerly AT&T) Open Threat Exchange. Community threat pulses, passive DNS and indicator lookups for IPs, domains, hashes and URLs.
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VirusTotal
Scans files, URLs, domains and IPs against 70+ engines. The relations graph shows passive DNS, communicating files, subdomains and historical WHOIS.
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