File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is Minecraft
Official Minecraft installer validly signed by Microsoft Corporation, with no antivirus detections among 74 engines and thousands of independent submitters since it first appeared.
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Strong evidence · A verified publisher signature, and no engine flags it.
This installer can be used normally. Obtain future copies only from official Microsoft or Minecraft sources, and keep your security software enabled.
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We found nothing harmful in this file.
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Antivirus results
0 of 70 flagged
- Flagged 0
- No detection 70
- No result 4
- Code signing Microsoft Corporation
- Test run Completed
- First seen 1y ago
Chapter 02
Why we think so
1 point against it and 4 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
None of the 70 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this installer. It carries a valid Microsoft Corporation signature and has been submitted by more than 3,600 independent sources over about a year and a half. Its network activity reached Microsoft's PlayFab game service, which fits the Minecraft launcher.
The file carries a valid code signature from Microsoft Corporation, a publisher on our trusted list. No antivirus engine flagged it, including all 18 major antivirus engines. It has been seen by 3,667 distinct submitters over roughly 556 days, which fits the official Minecraft installer. A few community YARA rules matched, including one named after a stealer, but no engine or sandbox result backs them up. They most likely match generic patterns inside this large .NET package. The sandbox mapped some techniques such as process injection, but it recorded no injected process, and the installer contacted Microsoft's PlayFab backend.
What We Detected
None of the 70 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this installer. It is validly signed by Microsoft Corporation and is widely distributed, with 3,667 submitters and more than 36,000 submissions. Three community YARA rules aimed at malware patterns matched, but no detection or evidence from the test run supports them.
Threat Behavior
The sandbox runs recorded no injection into other processes and no persistence entries. The sample wrote a device ID file under its own application folder. Its contacted URLs belong to Microsoft's PlayFab game service API. Several contacted addresses were background traffic from the analysis machine itself. Mapped techniques such as process injection appeared without any matching artefact, which is common for legitimate installers.
What To Do Now
This copy matches the official Microsoft-signed Minecraft installer. Keep downloading Minecraft only from minecraft.net or the Microsoft Store, and keep your antivirus enabled.
Where this verdict could be wrong1 caveat
- Three community YARA rules aimed at malware patterns matched this installer. With no engine detections, a valid Microsoft signature and thousands of submitters, these are most likely loose rule matches on a large .NET bundle.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- Valid code signature from Microsoft Corporation, a trusted publisher
- No detections from any of the 74 antivirus engines
- Widely distributed: over 3,600 independent submitters across about a year and a half
- Network activity went to Microsoft's PlayFab game service
- Three community pattern rules aimed at malware matched, though nothing else backs them up
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 partial. 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
- 3spawned processes
- 10network contacts
- 10filesystem & mutex artifacts
Includes 21 mapped techniques, every process, file, registry and network entry and 10 dropped files.
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Technical details
None of the 70 antivirus engines that checked it flag it; signed by Microsoft Corporation.
Sources checked
Every check behind this verdict
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 partial. Complete means the check returned a usable result; it does not mean the file is safe.
File fingerprint
- Last analyzed
- May 2, 2026, 3:30 PM UTC
- SHA-256
0fc1ded9a9459789b76104275682e603868181a0e1928ec0681810e7c8e2bf17- SHA-1
5069c9d61d180af0ed8924cb951423fc4ca74511- MD5
afc010d82c412d72c66f51768671a976
About this file
MinecraftInstaller.exe is a Win32 EXE file of 33.9 MB.
- Type and size
- Win32 EXE · 33.9 MB
- Signer
- Microsoft CorporationValid code signature.
- First seen
- Apr 10, 2025On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 3,667 distinct sources
- Packer
- None detected
- Entropy
- 7.50 of 8
First scanned Updated
Includes every engine result (74), 16 matched signature rules, PE section entropy and packers and how widely the file has been seen.
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