Email files containing the file.
The email_parents relationship returns the list of all email files containing a given file. This relationship is only available for Premium API users.
This relationship can be retrieved using the relationships API endpoint. The response contains a list of File objects.
{
"data": [
<FILE_OBJECT>,
<FILE_OBJECT>,
...
],
"links": {
"next": "<string>",
"self": "<string>"
},
"meta": {
"count": <int>,
"cursor": "<string>"
}
}
{
"data": [
{
"attributes": {
"downloadable": true,
"exiftool": {
"FileType": "TXT",
"FileTypeExtension": "txt",
"LineCount": 28077,
"MIMEEncoding": "us-ascii",
"MIMEType": "text/plain",
"Newlines": "Windows CRLF",
"WordCount": 59539
},
"first_submission_date": 1587049407,
"last_analysis_date": 1588653326,
"last_analysis_results": {
"ALYac": {
"category": "malicious",
"engine_name": "ALYac",
"engine_update": "20200505",
"engine_version": "1.1.1.5",
"method": "blacklist",
"result": "Trojan.GenericKD.42996961"
},
"APEX": {
"category": "malicious",
"engine_name": "APEX",
"engine_update": "20200504",
"engine_version": "6.18",
"method": "blacklist",
"result": "Malicious"
},
"AVG": {
"category": "undetected",
"engine_name": "AVG",
"engine_update": "20200505",
"engine_version": "18.4.3895.0",
"method": "blacklist",
"result": null
},
"Acronis": {
"category": "malicious",
"engine_name": "Acronis",
"engine_update": "20200422",
"engine_version": "1.1.1.75",
"method": "blacklist",
"result": "suspicious"
},
"Ad-Aware": {
"category": "malicious",
"engine_name": "Ad-Aware",
"engine_update": "20200505",
"engine_version": "3.0.5.370",
"method": "blacklist",
"result": "Trojan.GenericKD.42996961"
},
"AegisLab": {
"category": "undetected",
"engine_name": "AegisLab",
"engine_update": "20200505",
"engine_version": "4.2",
"method": "blacklist",
"result": null
},
},
"last_analysis_stats": {
"confirmed-timeout": 0,
"failure": 0,
"harmless": 0,
"malicious": 4,
"suspicious": 0,
"timeout": 1,
"type-unsupported": 0,
"undetected": 2
},
"last_modification_date": 1591945304,
"last_submission_date": 1587049407,
"magic": "news or mail text",
"md5": "b67828805dfdabf3a823278c3fdd37f7",
"meaningful_name": "blablabla.eml",
"names": [
"blablabla.eml"
],
"packers": {
"F-PROT": "qp, maxorder, appended, UTF-8"
},
"reputation": 0,
"sha1": "a97e30d504b3e618fc377640d3e65793f6f37625",
"sha256": "abfa4d040cfb3cd9e22f2301bf0902330ca3a6031ce6a97324b1f1c31494696c",
"signature_info": {
"comments": "blablabla",
"copyright": "Copyright © blabla 2020",
"description": "blablabla",
"file version": "1.3.30.0",
"internal name": "blablabla.exe",
"original name": "blablabla.exe",
"product": "blablabla"
},
"size": 1564805,
"ssdeep": "24576:kI9m552sO95L27K5bbZAR5tCZq53SM557ZP5hO5jZV:k59mK5i45Pi5tCZ5S3SM55r",
"tags": [
"email"
],
"times_submitted": 2,
"total_votes": {
"harmless": 0,
"malicious": 0
},
"trid": [
{
"file_type": "MIME HTML archive format",
"probability": 88.8
},
{
"file_type": "E-Mail message (Var. 2)",
"probability": 11.1
}
],
"type_description": "Email",
"type_tag": "email",
"unique_sources": 1
},
"id": "abfa4d04ecfb8cd9e22e2301bfe902c30caea6071ce6a9742eb1f1ce1494696c",
"links": {
"self": "https://www.virustotal.com/api/v3/files/abfa4d04ecfb8cd9e22e2301bfe902c30caea6071ce6a9742eb1f1ce1494696c"
},
"type": "file"
}
],
"links": {
"self": "https://www.virustotal.com/api/v3/files/abfa4d04ecfb8cd9e22e2301bfe902c30caea6071ce6a9742eb1f1ce1494696c/email_parents"
},
"meta": {
"count": 1
}
}