Submit a GET request to the VT API
        :param query: The query (see https://www.virustotal.com/en/documentation/private-api/ for types of queries)
        :param params: parameters of the query
        :return: JSON formatted response from the API

def _get_query(self, query, params):
        """
        Submit a GET request to the VT API
        :param query: The query (see https://www.virustotal.com/en/documentation/private-api/ for types of queries)
        :param params: parameters of the query
        :return: JSON formatted response from the API
        """
        if "apikey" not in params:
            params["apikey"] = self.api_key

        response = requests.get(query, params=params)
        return response.json()