File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is this email message safe? Yes, no threats found.
This Outlook email message raised no detections across 74 engines, and in the sandbox it only opened in Outlook and loaded mail-gateway banner images.
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Moderate evidence · No engine flags it, but no publisher signature confirms who made it.
The message file is not malicious code, but treat its contents as phishing: do not click links or enter credentials, and report it to your security team.
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We found nothing harmful in this file.
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Antivirus results
0 of 61 flagged
- Flagged 0
- No detection 61
- No result 13
- Code signing Not applicable
- Test run Completed
- First seen 3mo ago
Chapter 02
Why we think so
1 point against it and 3 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
None of the 61 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this Outlook message, and the test run showed only Outlook opening it and fetching email-security banner images. The file itself carries no malicious code we could find. Because it appears to be a saved phishing email, avoid clicking links or entering credentials from it.
None of the 61 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this Outlook message, including all major antivirus engines that analysed it. In the sandbox runs the message simply opened in Outlook, with no injection target, persistence or credential-store access recorded. The network activity consisted of banner and image requests to an email-security gateway's image service, which is typical for messages passed through corporate mail filtering. Some high-risk technique labels appeared in the sandbox summary without any matching artefact, which commonly happens when documents open in their viewer. The main residual risk is the content: the message appears to be a phishing email, and engine scans do not judge deceptive links.
What We Detected
None of the 61 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this Outlook message. Host reputation checks found no known-malicious or suspicious contacts among the hosts checked.
Threat Behavior
During the test run the message opened in Outlook and loaded banner images from an email-security gateway service. No process injection target, persistence or credential theft was recorded. Some technique labels appeared without supporting activity and do not indicate harm.
What To Do Now
The file itself shows no malicious code. If this is a phishing email, do not click its links, open its attachments or reply with information. Report it to your IT or security team and delete it when no longer needed.
Where this verdict could be wrong2 caveats
- Its original file name (hidden on this page for privacy) indicates it was saved as a phishing email; antivirus engines scan attachments and code, not deceptive links or social-engineering text, so links inside the message may still lead to a phishing page.
- Not every contacted address had a completed reputation check.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- None of the 61 antivirus engines that checked it flagged the file, including every major engine that analysed it.
- In the sandbox, the message only opened in Outlook, with no injection, persistence or credential access recorded.
- Network requests went to an email-security gateway's banner image service.
- The message appears to be a saved phishing email, so links inside it may lead to credential-harvesting pages that engine scans do not assess.
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- 17sandbox rule tags
- 3spawned processes
- 5network contacts
- 40filesystem & mutex artifacts
What this file did when executed
This file was run in a sandbox and its runtime behaviour was observed.
Techniques observed in the sandbox
17MITRE ATT&CK techniques the sandbox mapped. Highlighted ones are rare in normal software; the others are common in legitimate programs too.
- T1003· Credential theft
- T1005
- T1033· Reads user info
- T1055· Process injection
- T1071· Application protocol
- T1082· System recon
- T1112
- T1114
- T1221
- T1485
- T1552· Credential search
- T1552.001· Credential search
- T1562· Disables security
- T1562.001· Disables security
- T1564· Hides artifacts
- T1564.003· Hides artifacts
- T1573
Observed activity
Processes started
3Programs the file ran, with their command lines.
wmiadap.exewmiadap.exe /F /T /ROUTLOOK.EXE"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16\OUTLOOK.EXE" /f "C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\Email message"OUTLOOK.EXEC:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\OUTLOOK.EXE "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\OUTLOOK.EXE" /f "C:\Users\user\Desktop\Email message"
Network contacts
55 hosts, listed as 3 addresses, 2 links. Links show the host and path only.
- IP address
52.110.6.8 - IP address
216.145.217.37 - IP address
108.156.224.87 - URL
https://image-processing-service.au-1.mimecastcybergraph.com/v2/banners - URL
https://banner.au-1.mimecastcybergraph.com/BXxLT4HtNrigBPppauYU8A_1780881818-144605a979850af985ffb56b5adaf1b1a75d73b85bb6db156f52deae.png
Files
30Files the file created, changed or deleted.
- Written
C:\Windows\System32\wbem\Performance\WmiApRpl_new.h - Written
C:\Windows\System32\wbem\Performance\WmiApRpl.h - Written
C:\Windows\System32\wbem\Performance\WmiApRpl_new.ini - Written
C:\Windows\System32\wbem\Performance\WmiApRpl.ini - Written
C:\Windows\System32\perfc009.dat - Written
C:\Windows\System32\perfh009.dat
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- Written
C:\Windows\INF\WmiApRpl\WmiApRpl.h - Written
C:\Windows\INF\WmiApRpl\WmiApRpl.ini - Written
C:\Windows\System32\PerfStringBackup.TMP - Written
C:\Windows\System32\PerfStringBackup.INI - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\{2D34A292-3BFA-498B-8765-D27D583E4CDC} - OProcSessId.dat - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\Email message - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\~DF8E39D0AACEE67505.TMP - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\Documents\Outlook Files\Outlook.pst - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\Documents\Outlook Files\~Outlook.pst.tmp - Deleted
C:\Windows\System32\wbem\Performance\WmiApRpl.h - Deleted
C:\Windows\System32\wbem\Performance\WmiApRpl_new.h - Deleted
C:\Windows\System32\wbem\Performance\WmiApRpl.ini - Deleted
C:\Windows\System32\wbem\Performance\WmiApRpl_new.ini - Deleted
C:\Windows\INF\WmiApRpl\0009\WmiApRpl.ini - Deleted
C:\Windows\INF\WmiApRpl\0009 - Deleted
C:\Windows\INF\WmiApRpl\WmiApRpl.h - Deleted
C:\Windows\INF\WmiApRpl\WmiApRpl.ini - Deleted
C:\Windows\INF\WmiApRpl - Deleted
C:\Windows\INF\WmiApRpl.ini - Deleted
C:\Windows\INF\WmiApRpl\WmiApRpl.h\WmiApRpl.ini - Deleted
C:\Windows\System32\PerfStringBackup.TMP - Deleted
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\mapisvc.inf - Deleted
C:\Users\<USER>\Documents\Outlook Files\~Outlook.pst.tmp - Deleted
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\16.0\outlook.exe_Rules.xml
Registry and auto-start
10Settings the file changed, including ways to start again after a restart.
- Deleted
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\WmiApRpl\Performance\First Help - Deleted
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Perflib\Updating - Deleted
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\MMCPL\mlcfg32.cpl - Deleted
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\WmiApRpl\Performance\Last Counter - Deleted
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\WmiApRpl\Performance\Object List - Deleted
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\WmiApRpl\Performance\First Counter
Show all 10 entries for registry and auto-start
- Deleted
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\WmiApRpl\Performance\Last Help - Deleted
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\WmiApRpl\Performance\Library Validation Code - Deleted
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Diagnostics\BootDiagnosticsData - Deleted
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Diagnostics\BootDiagnosticsDataPreviousSession
Mutexes
10Named locks a program uses so only one copy runs; malware families often reuse them.
Global\ADAP_WMI_ENTRYGlobal\RefreshRA_MutexGlobal\RefreshRA_Mutex_LibGlobal\RefreshRA_Mutex_FlagInstallingLocal\_outlook_mutex_
Show all 10 entries for mutexes
Local\_outlook_keepalive_Local\10MU_ACBPIDS_S-1-5-5-0-143744Local\10MU_ACB10_S-1-5-5-0-143744Global\552FFA80-3393-423d-8671-7BA046BB5906
Sandbox background — not the file
7The analysis machine's own processes and connections, recorded in every run.
- VM process
Explorer.EXEC:\Windows\Explorer.EXE - VM process
services.exeC:\Windows\system32\services.exe - VM process
svchost.exeC:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k NetworkService -p - VM process
svchost.exeC:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k UnistackSvcGroup - VM process
svchost.exeC:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k LocalSystemNetworkRestricted -p -s StorSvc - VM process
lsass.exeC:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe
Show all 7 entries for sandbox background — not the file
- VM process
svchost.exeC:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k LocalService -s W32Time
Files this sample writes at runtime
This file drops 10 children at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache. 10 have no saved verdict and were not checked; that is missing coverage, not a finding.
- 458d7b862c71abbdfffd…5093edNot checkedno saved verdict
- a48c02fd36302685b5fb…ffa0a8Not checkedno saved verdict
- 055fb0442e2f3e787ae4…921c88Not checkedno saved verdict
- 97da3c982874ec87dcba…014346Not checkedno saved verdict
- 71e7f7b8deb46f98c972…d00f28Not checkedno saved verdict
- 89b2a9ad7d42f90b4a97…503e07Not checkedno saved verdict
- 6539622808a7d841b85d…c774ecNot checkedno saved verdict
- 260d54ebc92d8a772234…a9829cNot checkedno saved verdict
- 104ef282a2f46d748560…8cd56aNot checkedno saved verdict
- eb16c763abed997b0987…212c0eNot checkedno saved verdict
Chapter 04
Technical details
None of the 61 antivirus engines that checked it flag it.
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.
File fingerprint
- File name
- Email message
- Format
- Outlook
- Size
- 1.2 MB
- Code signing
- Not applicable to this file type
- Last analyzed
- Jul 24, 2026, 7:41 AM UTC
- SHA-256
c24e3287ccf64fcf5a9c7ab6db474f792ececee1d24b3885701d846640258d76- SHA-1
b8014242161a3b53fba7830b8c496e738fc3c357- MD5
98dc898ccd6bf72a3592f98029e76a90
First scanned Updated
Verdict history
- Suspicious
- Safeafter a re-check of the saved evidence
Ratings change when antivirus engines, our checks or MalwareTips staff learn more about a file.
Antivirus consensus
0 of 61 engines flagged this file
13 of the 74 engines returned no result for this file (file type not supported, or the scan did not finish), so they did not check it.
- Tier-117 engines0flagged
- Tier-233 engines0flagged
- Low-trust11 engines0flagged
View all 74 engine results
- AcronisClean
- AhnLab-V3Clean
- AlibabaNo result
- alibabacloudClean
- ALYacClean
- Antiy-AVLClean
- APEXNo result
- ArcabitClean
- AvastClean
- Avast-MobileNo result
- AVGClean
- AviraClean
- BitDefenderClean
- BitDefenderFalxNo result
- BkavClean
- CAT-QuickHealClean
- ClamAVClean
- CMCClean
- CrowdStrikeClean
- CTXClean
- CylanceNo result
- CynetClean
- DrWebClean
- ElasticNo result
- EmsisoftClean
- ESET-NOD32Clean
- F-SecureClean
- FortinetClean
- GDataClean
- GoogleClean
- GridinsoftClean
- huorongClean
- IkarusNo result
- JiangminClean
- K7AntiVirusClean
- K7GWClean
- KasperskyClean
- KingsoftClean
- LionicClean
- MalwarebytesClean
- MaxSecureClean
- McAfeeDClean
- MicrosoftClean
- MicroWorld-eScanClean
- NANO-AntivirusClean
- PaloaltoNo result
- PandaClean
- RisingClean
- SangforClean
- SentinelOneClean
- SkyhighClean
- SophosClean
- SUPERAntiSpywareClean
- SymantecClean
- SymantecMobileInsightNo result
- TACHYONClean
- tehtrisNo result
- TencentClean
- TrapmineNo result
- TrellixENSClean
- TrendMicroClean
- TrendMicro-HouseCallClean
- TrustlookNo result
- VaristClean
- VBA32Clean
- VIPREClean
- VirITClean
- ViRobotClean
- WebrootNo result
- XcitiumClean
- YandexClean
- ZillyaClean
- ZoneAlarmClean
- ZonerClean
Signatures and behavior heuristics
Low-severity pattern matches — worth noting but not on their own cause for alarm.
VirusTotal's sandbox summary maps this run to MITRE T1055 (Process Injection), but no injected process of the sample's own was recorded (the analysis VM's own WMI adapter, crash handlers and Chrome updater are not counted). VirusTotal maps T1055 on about half of all files no engine flags, so the mapping alone is not evidence of injection.
EvidenceT1055 (sandbox MITRE mapping)VirusTotal's sandbox summary maps this run to MITRE T1003 (OS Credential Dumping), but no process targeting LSASS or another credential store was recorded. VirusTotal maps T1003 on clean files more often than on detected ones, so the mapping alone is not evidence of credential theft.
EvidenceT1003 (sandbox MITRE mapping)
How widely this file has been seen
Rarely uploaded, and first seen more than two weeks ago. Often niche legitimate software or internal tooling; not a strong malware signal on its own.
Chapter 05
Questions & answers
Short answers to the 6 questions people ask most about this file.
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Community
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