def vt_report_to_maec_package(vt_report_input, options = None):
    """Accept a VirusTotal report (as a Python structure) and return a corresponding MAEC Package API object."""
    NS = Namespace("https://github.com/MAECProject/vt-to-maec", "VirusTotalToMAEC")
    maec.utils.set_id_namespace(NS)
    
    package = Package()

    # if only one result, make it a list of one result
    if type(vt_report_input) != list:
        vt_report_list = [vt_report_input]
    else:
        vt_report_list = vt_report_input

    for idx, vt_report in enumerate(vt_report_list):
        # if VirusTotal has never seen this MD5
        if vt_report["response_code"] == 0:
            sys.stderr.write("WARNING: Skipping file #" + str(idx+1) + " (" + vt_report["resource"] + "); this MD5 is unknown to VirusTotal\n")
            sys.stderr.flush();
            continue
        if vt_report["response_code"] == -1:
            sys.stderr.write("WARNING: VirusTotal had an unexpected error on file #" + str(idx+1) + " (" + vt_report["resource"] + "): " +
                             vt_report.get("verbose_message", "no message provided") + "\n")
            sys.stderr.flush();
            continue
        
        malware_subject = MalwareSubject()
        
        # create the file object and add hashes
        file_dict = {}
        file_dict['xsi:type'] = 'WindowsExecutableFileObjectType'
        file_dict['hashes'] = [
            {'type' : 'MD5', 'simple_hash_value': vt_report["md5"] },
            {'type' : 'SHA1', 'simple_hash_value': vt_report["sha1"] },
            {'type' : 'SHA256', 'simple_hash_value': vt_report["sha256"] }
        ]
        
        # set the object as the defined object
        object_dict = {}
        object_dict['id'] = maec.utils.idgen.create_id(prefix="object")
        object_dict['properties'] = file_dict
        
        # bind the object to the malware subject object
        malware_subject.set_malware_instance_object_attributes(Object.from_dict(object_dict))
        
        # create the analysis and add it to the subject
        analysis = Analysis()
        analysis.type_ = 'triage'
        analysis.method = 'static'
        analysis.complete_datetime = vt_report["scan_date"].replace(" ", "T")
        analysis.add_tool(ToolInformation.from_dict({'id' : maec.utils.idgen.create_id(prefix="tool"),
                           'vendor' : 'VirusTotal',
                           'name' : 'VirusTotal' }))
        malware_subject.add_analysis(analysis)
        
        bundle_obj = Bundle()
        
        for vendor, scan in vt_report["scans"].items():
            if scan["result"] is not None:
                bundle_obj.add_av_classification(AVClassification.from_dict({ 'classification_name' : scan["result"], 'vendor' : vendor }))
        
        # add bundle to subject, bundle to analysis, and subject to package
        malware_subject.add_findings_bundle(bundle_obj)
        analysis.set_findings_bundle(bundle_obj.id_)
        package.add_malware_subject(malware_subject)
        
        package.__input_namespaces__["https://github.com/MAECProject/vt-to-maec"] = "VirusTotalToMAEC"
        
        if options:
            if options.normalize_bundles:
                malware_subject.normalize_bundles()
            if options.deduplicate_bundles:
                malware_subject.deduplicate_bundles()
            if options.dereference_bundles:
                malware_subject.dereference_bundles()
        
    return package