File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is Animate
None of the 70 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this long-established portable executable, though unsigned status and sandbox-observed injection into WMIADAP.EXE merit…
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Strong evidence · Widely seen for a long time, and nothing harmful found.
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Antivirus results
0 of 70 flagged
- Flagged 0
- No detection 70
- No result 4
- Code signing Unsigned
- Test run Completed
- First seen 8y ago
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Why we think so
3 points against it and 5 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
None of the 70 antivirus engines that checked it flagged the file, and it has been submitted by 125 sources since 2018. One sandbox completed without a malware finding, although it recorded injection into WMIADAP.EXE and token-related activity, so the file should still come from a trusted distribution source.
The strongest evidence is the complete absence of detections across 74 engines, including all 17 major antivirus engines. The file is also long-established and broadly encountered, with 125 submitters and 142 submissions dating back to 2018. One completed sandbox run did not issue a malware finding, and the observed hosts were fully cross-checked without reputation hits. However, the run mapped and specifically recorded injection into WMIADAP.EXE, which is a meaningful behavioral concern rather than ordinary installer activity. That concern is tempered by the clean engine results, NSIS construction without packing, absence of persistence indicators, and lack of any identified malicious child.
What We Detected
None of the 70 antivirus engines that checked it flagged AnimatePortable.exe, including all 17 major antivirus engines represented in the results. The file has also circulated for years, with 125 submitters and 142 submissions since April 2018, which makes an undiscovered commodity threat less likely.
Threat Behavior
One sandbox run completed without a malware finding. Those techniques can be abused for stealth or privilege manipulation, but there was no supporting engine detection, malicious host, persistence indicator, packing signal, or identified malicious child. All two observed domains and the single observed IP were covered by the host-reputation check without a malicious or suspicious match. Seven dropped files remain individually unresolved because no saved verdict exists for them.
What To Do Now
Use the file only if it came from the expected portable-software source, and keep security software enabled. If its origin is uncertain, obtain a fresh copy from the official publisher and compare its hash before execution.
Where this verdict could be wrong2 caveats
- The executable is unsigned, so its publisher identity and integrity cannot be authenticated.
- Seven dropped files have no saved verdict, leaving their individual safety unresolved.
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 70 antivirus engines that checked it flagged the file.
- All 17 major antivirus engines represented in the results were silent.
- The file has been seen from 125 sources since 2018.
- The completed sandbox run did not return a malware finding.
- All observed network hosts were covered by the reputation check without a malicious or suspicious match.
- The executable is unsigned, so there is no authenticated publisher identity.
- The run mapped process injection and access-token manipulation techniques.
- Seven extracted files lack individual saved verdicts.
6 sources checked · all complete. See every source
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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- 21sandbox rule tags
- 2spawned processes
- 3network contacts
- 40filesystem & mutex artifacts
Includes the sandbox verdicts, 21 mapped techniques, every process, file, registry and network entry and 7 dropped files.
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Technical details
None of the 70 antivirus engines that checked it flag it; no publisher signature.
Sources checked
Every check behind this verdict
6 sources checked · all complete. Complete means the check returned a usable result; it does not mean the file is safe.
File fingerprint
- Last analyzed
- Oct 11, 2026, 3:57 PM UTC
- SHA-256
032c65dca5f87fda87f597b8264aa6b8ffa433247c12588e1543193ad2217535- SHA-1
92554e8300726a4f7079b84b87de924095234197- MD5
edd837614aca560386581fc8f6618dab
About this file
AnimatePortable.exe is a Win32 EXE file of 160.9 kB.
- Type and size
- Win32 EXE · 160.9 kB
- Signer
- UnsignedNo code signature.
- First seen
- Apr 13, 2018On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 125 distinct sources
- Packer
- None detected
- Entropy
- 4.56 of 8
First scanned
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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