You’re welcome.

If you had posted the URL to the VT results as suggested, we can see who detected it and what malware they gave it. That helps us to get an idea of what it might be. The same is true of posting the various log contents if anything is found.

As I mentioned my major concern is why it would even need to connect to the internet and to what avast considers a malicious site.

Now this brings me on to the next concern, what is your operating system and firewall ?
This ideally should have outbound protection to block unauthorised connections, which I would consider this to be.

You can also send the sample to avast via the avast chest:
Send the sample/s to avast as a Undetected Malware:
Open the chest and right click in the Chest and select Add, navigate to where you have the sample and add it to the chest (see image). Once in the chest, right click on the file and select ‘Submit to virus lab…’ complete the form (and give the URL of this topic) and submit, the file will be uploaded during the next update.