Safe
This legacy CAB archive is a recognized component of older educational software, confirmed by its presence in the NSRL database and lack of consensus among security engines.
0db8bb6b6608313ca1…a7d30407c3The reasoning behind this verdict
The MT AI Engine weighs every signal from this scan — antivirus detections, sandbox behaviour, code signing, prevalence and historical matches — to reach a single, evidence-based verdict.
The file is a long-standing, common archive associated with legitimate software. Its presence in the NSRL database strongly supports its benign nature. The single heuristic detection from one engine is not corroborated by any tier-1 engines or behavioral data. Given the age and context, this is a classic false positive on a legacy system file.
Each signal cites a concrete token from the evidence the arbiter saw — engine name, MITRE technique, signer string, or an exact count.
externalIntel.circl hit confirms association with 'Blue's Clues Preschool Learning System' in NSRL
1/74 engines flagged (Malwarebytes), with 0/17 tier-1 engines reporting malicious
file.ageDays=6209 indicates long-standing presence in the ecosystem
prevalence.classification='common_old' with 177 submissions across 140 sources
- NSRL legacy database entry
- High age (6209 days)
- Common prevalence (140 sources)
The file is a legitimate legacy component. No action is required.
What to do now
This file looks safe based on everything we checked.
This file is safe to use.
Good habit: only download files from the official website or an app store.
Keep your antivirus and Windows updates switched on so you stay protected.
1 contradiction resolved by the scoring engine
1 corroborating signal from researcher-curated sources
1 detection across 74 engines
How widely this file has been seen
Widely seen in the wild for a long time. High prior this is legitimate; isolated detections on common-old files are usually false positives.
Forensic fingerprint
- File name
- DIRECTX.CAB
- Size
- 13.72 MB
- MIME type
- (unknown)
- Detected type
- CAB
- SHA-256
- 0db8bb6b6608313ca15e3375f6b6283bcc1d465cf6214a03de0d24a7d30407c3
- MD5
- d050ac0b16c8f4a0a51dc6569dab0a52
- SHA-1
- e68c81aebaa49f0822ff16bc8041f1773a80e492
- First seen (VT)
- 7/19/2009, 7:58:13 AM
- Last analysis (VT)
- 7/11/2026, 11:47:55 PM
- First scan (MalwareTips)
- 7/19/2026, 8:13:37 AM
- Last scan (MalwareTips)
- 7/19/2026, 8:13:37 AM
- Community reputation
- -31flagged
Safety FAQ
Common questions about DIRECTX.CAB, answered from the scan data above.
- DIRECTX.CAB appears safe. 73 of 74 antivirus engines report it clean, with only 1 low-confidence detection that read as false positives. As a habit, only open files you downloaded from the official source, since attackers sometimes distribute trojanised copies of legitimate software under the same name.
- DIRECTX.CAB is a compressed archive, about 13.7 MB. Our analysis found no threat indicators for it. A file's name can be reused by different files, so we identify it by its cryptographic hash (below).
- 1 of 74 antivirus engines flagged DIRECTX.CAB, 1 of them as outright malicious. A small number of detections can include false positives, so we weigh which engines flagged it and what else the file does, not just the raw count.
- The SHA-256 hash of DIRECTX.CAB is 0db8bb6b6608313ca15e3375f6b6283bcc1d465cf6214a03de0d24a7d30407c3, and its MD5 is d050ac0b16c8f4a0a51dc6569dab0a52. This hash is the file's unique fingerprint — two files with the same SHA-256 are identical. Use it to confirm you're looking at exactly this file (not just one with the same name) when comparing against antivirus databases or a download's published checksum.
- Based on this scan, yes — DIRECTX.CAB shows no threat indicators. The important caveat is source: make sure you downloaded it from the official website or a trusted store, because attackers sometimes distribute malware-laced copies under a legitimate file's name. If your own antivirus flags it while we report it clean, that is most often a false positive, but verify the source before overriding your antivirus.
- This report reflects the scan run on July 19, 2026. Because a file's hash never changes, the identity of DIRECTX.CAB is fixed — but antivirus coverage improves over time, so a file that looks clean today can pick up detections later (and vice-versa). If you need the latest picture, MalwareTips staff can re-run the analysis from scratch.
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