File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Suspicious

Old unsigned EXE with low-trust heuristic flags and suspicious MITRE techniques but no tier-1 detections or confirmed malice.

Trust score52Caution
MT AI confidence · 65%
RegOwnit.exe
3.6 MB
1284106bcfc820bc98594cfd076b
Antivirus engines
1 of 75 flagged
Code signing
Unsigned
Age
First seen 15y 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.

65%Confidence
High
Reasoning

The engine picture is overwhelmingly clean except for one low-trust detection, satisfying the low-trust-only FP pattern. However the sandbox observed genuine offensive MITRE techniques and direct-IP C2-style behaviour that benign software rarely exhibits without DNS. Prevalence as common_old since 2011 and absence of external intel or malicious children are positive, but the unsigned status and three prior suspicious imphash verdicts keep the file in the borderline zone. No single signal is decisive; the combination warrants suspicious.

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: 1/75 malicious (SentinelOne low_trust 'Static AI - Suspicious PE'), tier1Malicious=0, onlyLowTrustFlagging=true

  2. behaviour.offensiveTechniques: T1055 and T1562.001 observed; DirectIpC2 heuristic on 14 IPs/0 domains

  3. prevalence.classification: common_old (137 submitters since 2011-06-09); similarHashes shows 3/5 prior suspicious verdicts on imphash

  4. signing.verified=false; no externalIntel hits or malicious sandbox verdicts

Points in its favour
  • Only low-trust detection; zero tier-1 malicious
  • Common_old prevalence since 2011
  • Clean sandbox verdict and no malicious dropped children or hosts
Points against
  • Process injection (T1055) and defense impairment (T1562.001) observed
  • Direct IP contacts with zero domains
  • Unsigned binary
  • Mixed similar-hash verdicts (mostly suspicious)
What to do

Treat as suspicious; do not execute on production systems without further verification or sandboxing.

Sources disagree

1 contradiction resolved by the scoring engine

Only low-trust / heuristic engines flagged this file
1 engine from the heuristic / generic-AI set flagged it. No tier-1 engine agreed.
Detection weight reduced in scoring.
Runtime behaviour

What this file did when executed

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

MITRE ATT&CK
11

Adversary techniques mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

T1027T1027.002T1033T1055T1059T1071T1082T1083T1087T1106T1562.001
Spawned processes
3
$(unnamed)
"C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\software.exe"
$(unnamed)
%SAMPLEPATH%\1284106bcfc820bc983810a3bacbfc8f3db96af945013642a6078e594cfd076b.exe
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\System32\wuapihost.exe
Network activity
15
IP addresses15
  • a83f:8110:9d59:ff:995a:ff:9759:ff
  • 72.21.81.240
  • 20.99.132.105
  • 192.229.211.108
  • 23.40.197.184
  • 20.99.133.109
  • 20.99.184.37
  • a83f:8110:0:0:64ca:1f00:0:0
  • 20.99.185.48
  • 23.198.146.35
+5 more
Filesystem & mutexes
24
Files written2
  • C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\UPnP Device Host\upnphost\udhisapi.dll
  • C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming
Files deleted15
  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER1E60.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER1E61.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER1F3C.tmp.csv
  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER1F6C.tmp.txt
  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER1F3B.tmp.csv
+10 more
Mutexes created7
  • CTF.LBES.MutexDefaultS-1-5-21-1482476501-1645522239-1417001333-500
  • CTF.Compart.MutexDefaultS-1-5-21-1482476501-1645522239-1417001333-500
  • CTF.Asm.MutexDefaultS-1-5-21-1482476501-1645522239-1417001333-500
  • CTF.Layouts.MutexDefaultS-1-5-21-1482476501-1645522239-1417001333-500
  • CTF.TMD.MutexDefaultS-1-5-21-1482476501-1645522239-1417001333-500
+2 more
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.

2 synthesis
MITRE ATT&CK profile
Defense evasion× 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:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\software.exe"
  • DirectIpC2medium

    Sample contacted 14 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
    a83f:8110:9d59:ff:995a:ff:9759:ff · 72.21.81.240 · 20.99.132.105
Antivirus engine breakdown

1 detection across 75 engines

1 malicious0 suspicious74 clean
Tier-117 engines
0flag
Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)
Tier-238 engines
0flag
Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates
Low-trust20 engines
1flag
Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)
SentinelOne
malicious
Static AI - Suspicious PE
Hash 1284106bcfc8… cross-referenced against 75 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.

Unpacked
Section entropy4 sections
.text
6.29
.sdata
2.26
.rsrc
3.34
.reloc
0.10
0.0Packed threshold 7.28.0
Prevalence

How often this file shows up in the wild

Widely seen in the wild for a long time. High prior this is legitimate; isolated detections on common-old files are usually false positives.

Common & old
Unique uploaders
137
Hundreds of people have uploaded this — common.
Total submissions
150
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen by VT
15y ago
Jun 9, 2011
Prevalence quadrant
Rare · New
Targeted malware lives here
Common · New
Just-released software
Rare · Old
Niche or internal tooling
here
Common · Old
Trusted legitimate binaries
File identity

Forensic fingerprint

File biography
First seen (VT)
6/9/2011, 12:52:55 PM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
5/20/2026, 4:22:01 AM
Scanned here
5/22/2026, 7:03:39 AM
File name
RegOwnit.exe
Size
3.60 MB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
Win32 EXE
SHA-256
1284106bcfc820bc983810a3bacbfc8f3db96af945013642a6078e594cfd076b
MD5
31d2286967caddc168b2a08845cd36ad
SHA-1
2e210eb46ec87c901205d9bf818de13f25b10f1d
PE imphash
f34d5f2d4577ed6d9ceec516c1f5a744
First seen (VT)
6/9/2011, 12:52:55 PM
Last analysis (VT)
5/20/2026, 4:22:01 AM
First scan (MalwareTips)
5/22/2026, 7:03:39 AM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
5/22/2026, 7:03:39 AM
Behavior tags
idleassemblyruntime-modulespeexedirect-cpu-clock-accessdetect-debug-environment
Community classification

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