File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is Grammarly
Single less reliable detection on a verified Grammarly-signed installer with classic AV-on-AV false-positive indicators.
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Moderate evidence · No engine flags it, but no publisher signature confirms who made it.
Treat as a legitimate Grammarly installer; the single less reliable detection is consistent with known AV-on-AV false-positive patterns for security-related filenames.
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We found nothing harmful in this file.
Run it only if it came from the developer's own website or an official app store.
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Antivirus results
1 of 70 flagged
- Flagged 1
- No detection 69
- No result 4
- Code signing Grammarly, Inc.
- Test run Completed
- First seen 3mo ago
Chapter 02
Why we think so
2 points against it and 4 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
Only one less reliable engine flagged the file; 17 major antivirus engines reported clean. The filename and signer match a legitimate Grammarly installer pattern that commonly triggers rule-based false positives in other AVs.
The engine profile shows onlyLowTrustFlagging with zero malicious detections from major antivirus engines, aligning directly with the av_on_av_fp_pattern heuristic. Signing is verified under the Grammarly name with no brand mismatch. Medium prevalence and the installer filename further support a benign commercial software interpretation.
What We Detected
74 engines scanned the sample; only VBA32 (less reliable) reported 'suspected of Trojan.Notifier.gen'. 17 major antivirus engines including Avast, AVG, Avira, BitDefender, DrWeb, Emsisoft, ESET-NOD32, F-Secure, Fortinet, GData, Ikarus and Kaspersky returned clean. The file is signed and verified by Grammarly with an installer-style filename.
Threat Behavior
Sandbox observed MITRE techniques T1055 (process injection), T1134 (token manipulation), T1485/T1486 (data destruction), T1543/T1547 (persistence) and direct-IP connections to 14 addresses. No malicious sandbox verdict. No complete contacted-host reputation result was available. These behaviours can appear in complex installers but lack corroborating malicious signals.
What To Do Now
The file matches the expected profile of a legitimate Grammarly installer. If obtained from the official Grammarly website or app store, it can be considered safe. Re-scan with updated definitions or run in a controlled environment if additional caution is required.
Where this verdict could be wrong2 caveats
- If the Grammarly certificate was abused, the verified signer would be misleading — but no brandMismatch and prevalence=medium reduce stolen-cert likelihood.
- Two of our behaviour rules matched (high/medium severity) on and the Windows password store activity — could indicate real malice despite limited evidence.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- Verified Grammarly signature
- 17 major antivirus engines clean
- Medium prevalence with installer filename
- No malicious files it created or hosts
- 7 offensive MITRE techniques observed in sandbox
- Direct-IP contacts with no DNS resolution
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 partial. See every source
Chapter 03
What it did in our test
It ran in our isolated test environment; no test environment rated what it did as risky.
Test run summary
Capture complete- 35sandbox rule tags
- 7spawned processes
- 22network contacts
- 38filesystem & mutex artifacts
Includes 35 mapped techniques, every process, file, registry and network entry and 8 dropped files.
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Technical details
1 of the 70 antivirus engines that checked it flags it; signed by Grammarly, Inc..
Sources checked
Every check behind this verdict
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 partial. Complete means the check returned a usable result; it does not mean the file is safe.
Engines that flagged it 1
The saved verdict treats these detections as likely false positives.
- VBA32suspected of Trojan.Notifier.gen
File fingerprint
- Last analyzed
- Oct 17, 2026, 1:21 PM UTC
- SHA-256
701c9a0330f3833e4a82712cf92dbe4e76a9a05e412dfdad25af2900150da518- SHA-1
6e91519bc115e0723de7c16d666a81e9f5fa78c5- MD5
d147b251173d360e8885bc605e81f2ee
About this file
GrammarlyOnlineSetup.e5J0Ova0tvcjatj3dsji0602.exe is a Win32 EXE file of 97.8 kB.
- Type and size
- Win32 EXE · 97.8 kB
- Signer
- Grammarly, Inc.Valid code signature.
- First seen
- Jun 29, 2026On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 41 distinct sources
- Packer
- None detected
- Entropy
- 7.94 of 8
First scanned Updated
Includes every engine result (74), 1 matched signature rule, PE section entropy and packers and how widely the file has been seen.
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