File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Safe

Unsigned Prism Launcher installer with zero engine detections and an imphash match to a previously clean sample.

Trust score82Moderate trust
MT AI confidence · 78%
PrismLauncher-Windows-MSVC-Setup-9.4.exe
21.3 MB
0f46adb6c399e1d00052834a42cb
Antivirus engines
0 of 74 flagged
Code signing
Unsigned
Age
First seen 2mo ago
MT AI Engine · our arbiter

The verdict, reasoned out.

Not a rules engine. The MT AI Engine reads every signal we collected, weighs them against history, and commits to an answer.

78%Confidence
High
Reasoning

All 74 engines returned clean results with no tier-1 detections. The file is unsigned, yet the imphash matches a previously safe PrismLauncher installer. Sandbox behaviour shows typical installer actions (vc_redist extraction, TaskKill of prior instance, Qt single-instance mutex) alongside the flagged MITRE techniques. No malicious children, no malicious hosts contacted, and external intel sources are silent. Medium prevalence and installer filename pattern further support a benign classification.

Key signals · 4

Each signal cites a concrete token from the evidence the arbiter saw — engine name, MITRE technique, signer string, or an exact count.

  1. engines: 0 malicious out of 74 engines (tier1Malicious=0)

  2. similarHashes[0].verdict=safe with reasonCode=ai:benign_signed_installer (matchKind=imphash)

  3. behaviour.offensiveTechniques=[T1055,T1134,T1485,T1486] and triggeredHeuristics=[MalwareTips.Synth.ProcessInjection, MalwareTips.Synth.CredentialDumper, MalwareTips.Synth.DirectIpC2]

  4. prevalence.classification=medium, filename=PrismLauncher-Windows-MSVC-Setup-9.4.exe with hasInstallerHint=true

Points in its favour
  • 0/74 engines malicious
  • Imphash match to prior safe verdict
  • No malicious dropped children or contacted hosts
  • Medium prevalence with installer filename pattern
Points against
  • File is unsigned
  • Sandbox flagged process injection (T1055) and LSASS access
What to do

Proceed with installation after confirming the SHA-256 against the official Prism Launcher release notes; the evidence indicates a clean, albeit unsigned, installer.

Runtime behaviour

What this file did when executed

This file was detonated in 1 sandbox and its runtime behaviour was observed.

MITRE ATT&CK
27

Adversary techniques mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

T1010T1012T1027T1033T1055T1059T1070T1071T1082T1083T1112T1115T1125T1129T1134T1202T1222T1485T1486T1497T1497.001T1518T1529T1547.009+3 more
Spawned processes
15
$(unnamed)
"C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\PrismLauncher-Windows-MSVC-Setup-9.4.exe"
$(unnamed)
TaskKill /IM prismlauncher.exe /F
$(unnamed)
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Programs\PrismLauncher\vc_redist\vc_redist.x64.exe /install /passive /norestart
$(unnamed)
"C:\Windows\Temp\{DEF9826D-039E-4245-B137-C6E148A1AC24}\.cr\vc_redist.x64.exe" -burn.clean.room="C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Programs\PrismLauncher\vc_redist\vc_redist.x64.exe" -burn.filehandle.attached=888 -burn.filehandle.self=892 /inst…
$(unnamed)
"C:\Windows\Temp\{74A60DCD-08DB-466A-9B16-C5B58CA1750B}\.be\VC_redist.x64.exe" -q -burn.elevated BurnPipe.{E1421259-6231-42DA-BA37-3885C8051669} {8162EC9D-B1AF-48A2-83C9-7900F6D383A8} 7040
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\system32\DllHost.exe /Processid:{F32D97DF-E3E5-4CB9-9E3E-0EB5B4E49801}
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
$(unnamed)
"C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Programs\PrismLauncher\prismlauncher.exe"
+7 more processes captured.
Network activity
6
IP addresses4
  • 23.61.93.234
  • 185.199.109.153
  • 104.18.21.213
  • 162.159.36.2
URLs2
  • http://r12.c.lencr.org/89.crl
  • https://i18n.prismlauncher.org/index_v2.json
Filesystem & mutexes
33
Files written15
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\nseC91D.tmp\modern-wizard.bmp
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\nseC91D.tmp\nsDialogs.dll
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\nseC91D.tmp\System.dll
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\nseC91D.tmp\nsExec.dll
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Programs\PrismLauncher\prismlauncher.exe
+10 more
Files deleted15
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\nseC91D.tmp\modern-wizard.bmp
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\nseC91D.tmp\NScurl.dll
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\nseC91D.tmp\nsDialogs.dll
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\nseC91D.tmp\nsExec.dll
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\nseC91D.tmp\System.dll
+10 more
Mutexes created3
  • cversions.3.m
  • Local\SessionImmersiveColorMutex
  • QtLockedFile mutex c:/users/bruno/appdata/local/temp/qtsingleapp-84f62f4d6586f22e6ca919961aedd64ac8d04e66-lockfile
Dropped payload

Files this sample writes at runtime

This file drops 10 children at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache.

10 unseen
  • f4a118afd9259cd928f51e16aaNever scanned
    never seen before
  • 8bca64be01229c8cbc45058761Never scanned
    never seen before
  • ac3706ebbb78cfba74e50aba8fNever scanned
    never seen before
  • 2ac8b7c19a5189662de339f9caNever scanned
    never seen before
  • 44c76290f7a2e45940e8acbc8dNever scanned
    never seen before
  • 5aed2c3a8ff118747172600770Never scanned
    never seen before
  • 27891eec899be859e3b4c6e701Never scanned
    never seen before
  • 5c13a65870d770d1642a0c7009Never scanned
    never seen before
  • 466c595b87f59053de294d17abNever scanned
    never seen before
  • 2cd3a2d4053954db1196843c77Never scanned
    never seen before
No researcher-database hits
External threat-intel sources were not collected for this scan.
Signature matches

YARA + heuristic rules that fired

A researcher-curated or high-severity heuristic rule matched this sample. These rules target specific malware families and are near-definitive.

3 synthesis
MITRE ATT&CK profile
Defense evasion× 1Cred access× 1C2× 1
MalwareTips synthesis rules
Our heuristics on VT data + sandbox behaviour
  • ProcessInjectionhigh

    MITRE T1055 (Process Injection) observed — CreateRemoteThread / APC / reflective-DLL injection. The payload is being smuggled into a legitimate process to bypass AV hooks.

    Evidence
    C:\Windows\system32\DllHost.exe /Processid:{F32D97DF-E3E5-4CB9-9E3E-0EB5B4E49801}
  • CredentialDumpermedium

    Sandbox observed process activity targeting LSASS (Windows credential store). Legitimate software has no business reading LSASS memory — this is Mimikatz-shape behaviour.

    Evidence
    C:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe
  • DirectIpC2medium

    Sample contacted 4 external IP address(es) and zero domains. Benign software virtually always uses DNS; no-DNS direct-IP C2 is a strong malware indicator because it bypasses reputation systems and dodges domain-based blocklists.

    Evidence
    23.61.93.234 · 185.199.109.153 · 104.18.21.213
Antivirus engine breakdown

0 detections across 74 engines

0 malicious0 suspicious74 clean
Tier-117 engines
0flag
Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)
Tier-238 engines
0flag
Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates
Low-trust19 engines
0flag
Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)
All 74 engines report this file as clean.
Hash 0f46adb6c399… cross-referenced against 74 AV engines via our AV network.
PE forensics

Section entropy & packers

Section-level entropy and packer detection from the PE header. Nothing suspicious here — entropy is within the normal range for unpacked code.

ent 8.00Unpacked
Section entropy5 sections
.text
6.48
.rdata
4.97
.data
4.17
.ndata
0.00
.rsrc
3.00
0.0Packed threshold 7.28.0
Prevalence

How often this file shows up in the wild

Moderate prevalence — neither rare nor common. No strong prior applies.

Medium
Unique uploaders
152
Hundreds of people have uploaded this — common.
Total submissions
159
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen by VT
2mo ago
May 4, 2026
Prevalence quadrant
Rare · New
Targeted malware lives here
Common · New
Just-released software
Rare · Old
Niche or internal tooling
Common · Old
Trusted legitimate binaries
File identity

Forensic fingerprint

File biography
First seen (VT)
5/4/2026, 11:07:34 AM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
7/3/2026, 3:26:24 PM
Scanned here
7/5/2026, 5:19:24 AM
File name
PrismLauncher-Windows-MSVC-Setup-9.4.exe
Size
21.34 MB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
Win32 EXE
SHA-256
0f46adb6c399e1d00013799c28b406899a3efb1e99981f5d9de89852834a42cb
MD5
f8fed0517b581dc49795d6c9a9eb71ba
SHA-1
e5982be8f470ea120fb3327e8dc61baeee587d45
PE imphash
f4639a0b3116c2cfc71144b88a929cfd
First seen (VT)
5/4/2026, 11:07:34 AM
Last analysis (VT)
7/3/2026, 3:26:24 PM
First scan (MalwareTips)
7/5/2026, 5:19:24 AM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
7/5/2026, 5:19:24 AM
Behavior tags
peexeoverlay
Community classification

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