To write results to ElasticSearch Write to a elasticsearch docker container $ docker volume create --name malice $ docker run -d --name elasticsearch \ -p 9200:9200 \ -v malice:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data \ blacktop/elasticsearch:6 $ docker run --rm --link elasticsearch \ -e MALICE_ELASTICSEARCH_URL=http://elasticsearch:9200 \ malice/virustotal lookup -t HASH Write to an external elasticsearch database $ docker run --rm \ -e MALICE_ELASTICSEARCH_URL=$MALICE_ELASTICSEARCH_URL \ -e MALICE_ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME=$MALICE_ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME \ -e MALICE_ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD=$MALICE_ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD \ -e MALICE_ELASTICSEARCH_INDEX="test" \ malice/virustotal lookup -t HASH