File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is .NET Host safe? Yes, no threats found.
No engine detected malware, the executable has a valid signature and substantial historical prevalence, and its completed sandbox run found no high-risk behavior.
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Strong evidence · A verified publisher signature, and no engine flags it.
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Antivirus results
0 of 68 flagged
- Flagged 0
- No detection 68
- No result 7
- Code signing .NET
- Test run Completed
- First seen 1y ago
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Why we think so
4 points against it and 4 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
All 68 antivirus engines that checked it produced no malicious or suspicious detection, including 16 major antivirus engines reporting no detection. The file is signed, established across 244 sources, and showed no offensive techniques or malicious sandbox conclusion, though its direct-IP contacts were not fully reputation-checked.
The strongest evidence is complete detection silence: 0 of the 68 antivirus engines that checked it flagged the executable, with no major family consensus. Its signature verifies, although the signer is not on the curated publisher list and has no stored history. One completed sandbox run found six techniques common in legitimate software, no high-risk techniques, no persistence indicators, and no malicious conclusion. Direct-IP traffic is the principal concern, but the fired rule is not independently decisive and no complete destination-reputation result is available. Long-standing prevalence across 244 sources, unpacked code, and no external intelligence hits further support a benign .NET host component.
What We Detected
No malicious or suspicious detections appeared among 75 antivirus engines. The executable carries a verified signature from “.NET,” though this signer is neither on the curated publisher list nor backed by stored historical statistics.
Threat Behavior
One completed sandbox run recorded six techniques commonly seen in ordinary software, no high-risk techniques, no persistence indicators, and no malicious sandbox conclusion. A medium-severity rule noted direct connections to IP addresses without corresponding domain records. No complete contacted-host reputation result was available. One file it created was inspected without a malicious finding, but its individual verdict remains unknown.
What To Do Now
The file is broadly established, with 244 sources and 266 submissions since November 2024, and the antivirus analysis found neither packed code nor suspiciously high-entropy code. Keep security software enabled and obtain the executable through an official Microsoft or .NET distribution channel when possible. If its source is unexpected, verify the certificate details and hash before running it.
Where this verdict could be wrong3 caveats
- triggeredHeuristics[0].rule='one of our behaviour rules' recorded direct-IP traffic, and contactedHosts=null leaves those destinations without a complete reputation cross-check.
- The signer is not on the recognised-publisher list and this signer has no saved history, so the verified '.NET' signature lacks curated publisher or historical signer support.
- 1 dropped file has no saved verdict: the single written child was not identified as malicious, but it also received no definitive child verdict.
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- 0/68 engines reported a malicious or suspicious detection.
- The executable has a verified digital signature.
- One sandbox run found zero offensive techniques and no malicious conclusion.
- Observed across 244 sources and 266 submissions over 665 days.
- Direct-IP traffic triggered one of our behaviour rules.
- No complete reputation cross-check is available for observed network destinations.
- The verified signer has no curated publisher match or historical sample statistics.
- The single file it created has an unknown individual verdict.
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- 6sandbox rule tags
- 6spawned processes
- 2network contacts
- 5filesystem & mutex artifacts
Includes 6 mapped techniques, every process, file, registry and network entry and 1 dropped file.
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Technical details
None of the 68 antivirus engines that checked it flag it; signed by .NET.
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
- Sep 8, 2026, 4:37 PM UTC
- SHA-256
11058e8c2cd05f30dcf1775644bf19d2913c9a6d674c12f91d1896d95d9cc5c2- SHA-1
013ca259f551ad6f33db53fff0e121e74408e20e- MD5
71026b098f8fb39c88b003df746d9fa0
About this file
.NET Host is a Win32 EXE file of 146.7 kB.
- Type and size
- Win32 EXE · 146.7 kB
- Signer
- .NETValid code signature.
- First seen
- Nov 12, 2024On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 244 distinct sources
- Packer
- None detected
- Entropy
- 7.53 of 8
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