Evaluating QR Codes

[Nick Anthis]

Does anyone know of a web site where I can upload a QR code image and evaluate it for malware? I know Virustotal can accept files, URLs, or hashes, but I would like to be able to analyze a QR code for legitimacy.

 

[Rick Butler]

A tool that I've used to analyze QR codes is QRazyBox. Great for fixing broken QR's too. /r

 

[Fanuel]

Thanks @Rick Butler for sharing QRazyBox link

 

[Rick Butler]

Thanks @Rick Butler for sharing QRazyBox link

It's what I do. It's a good tool and worth learning. /r

 

[Steve Mallard]

A tool that I've used to analyze QR codes is QRazyBox. Great for fixing broken QR's too. /r

Excellent...

 

[Carnegie]

Does anyone know of a web site where I can upload a QR code image and evaluate it for malware? I know Virustotal can accept files, URLs, or hashes, but I would like to be able to analyze a QR code for legitimacy.

For promptness and automation skip the image upload and use the CLI to decode/read QR Codes, you may use PowerShell with the free open source ZXing.Net library loaded.

GitHub - micjahn/ZXing.Net: .Net port of the original java-based barcode reader and generator library zxing

.Net port of the original java-based barcode reader and generator library zxing - micjahn/ZXing.Net

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ZXing.Net 0.16.9

ZXing.Net is a port of ZXing, an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing library originally implemented in Java. It has been ported by hand with a lot of optimizations and improvements. It is compatible with .Net 2.0, .Net 3.5, .Net 4.x, .Net 5.x, .Net 6.x, .Net...

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