File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Suspicious

Newly signed executable with high entropy and packing; no malicious detections but unestablished signer and similar imphash history warrant caution.

Verified · Ascora GmbH
Trust score52Caution
MT AI confidence · 62%
SSDFresh.exe
2.3 MB
14a52416a76085501626b515bc7f
Antivirus engines
0 of 75 flagged
Code signing
Signed by Ascora GmbH
Age
First seen 6 days 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.

62%Confidence
Moderate
Reasoning

The file presents a mixed-signal profile. On one hand, zero malicious detections across 71 engines (including Kaspersky, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Fortinet, and Avira) and no sandbox malicious verdicts suggest the file is not currently known malware. On the other hand, the signer 'Ascora GmbH' has no established history (signerStats.found=false), the code is highly obfuscated (entropy 7.3, likely packed), and the imphash matches four prior samples all verdicted 'suspicious' with the same ai:borderline_mixed_signals reasoning. The file is also rare and new (6 days old, 1 submitter), limiting our confidence in the absence of detections. No external intelligence (CIRCL, YARAify, MalwareBazaar) corroborates malice, but the lack of data is not the same as clean data.

Key signals · 5

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

  1. engines: 0/71 malicious; tier1Malicious=0; 16 tier-1 engines (Kaspersky, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Fortinet, Avira, F-Secure, GData, Emsisoft, DrWeb, Avast, AVG, Ikarus) all silent

  2. signing.verified=true, signer='Ascora GmbH', but signerStats.found=false — unestablished publisher with zero prior samples

  3. peAnalysis: highEntropyCode=true, likelyPacked=true, .text entropy=7.3 — code obfuscation present

  4. similarHashes: 4/5 prior imphash matches verdicted 'suspicious' (ai:borderline_mixed_signals); no malicious consensus

  5. prevalence: rare_new (1 submitter, 6 days old); no external intel hits (CIRCL, YARAify, MalwareBazaar negative)

Points in its favour
  • 0/71 antivirus engines report malicious detections
  • 16 tier-1 vendors (Kaspersky, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Fortinet, Avira, F-Secure, GData, Emsisoft, DrWeb, Avast, AVG, Ikarus) all silent
  • Digitally signed and verified by Ascora GmbH
  • No external intelligence hits (CIRCL, YARAify, MalwareBazaar negative)
  • No malicious sandbox verdicts, no dropped children, no malicious host contact
Points against
  • Unestablished signer with zero prior submission history
  • High code entropy (7.3) and likely packing — code obfuscation present
  • Import hash (imphash) matches 4 prior 'suspicious' verdicts
  • Rare and new file (6 days old, 1 submitter) — limited analysis time
  • No sandbox execution data available to confirm runtime behaviour
What to do

Do not execute this file on production systems without further verification. Contact Ascora GmbH to confirm the file's legitimacy and purpose, or test it in an isolated sandbox environment first. The combination of an unverified signer, code obfuscation, and borderline imphash history justifies defensive caution despite the absence of current malware detections.

No researcher-database hits
External threat-intel sources were not collected for this scan.
Antivirus engine breakdown

0 detections across 75 engines

0 malicious0 suspicious75 clean
Tier-117 engines
0flag
Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)
Tier-238 engines
0flag
Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates
Low-trust20 engines
0flag
Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)
All 75 engines report this file as clean.
Hash 14a52416a760… cross-referenced against 75 AV engines via our AV network.
PE forensics

Section entropy & packers

Executable sections have high entropy (7.2+) — the code is compressed or encrypted and only decrypted at runtime. Classic packing behaviour.

ent 7.62Likely packed
Section entropy3 sections
.text
7.30packed
.rsrc
4.02
.reloc
0.10
0.0Packed threshold 7.28.0
Prevalence

How often this file shows up in the wild

Barely seen in the wild and first surfaced recently. This is the footprint of targeted malware the AV industry hasn't signatured yet — extra scrutiny is warranted.

Rare & new
Unique uploaders
1
Very few people have ever uploaded this — rare.
Total submissions
1
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen by VT
6d ago
Jun 12, 2026
Prevalence quadrant
here
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)
6/12/2026, 10:29:36 AM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
6/12/2026, 10:29:36 AM
Scanned here
6/18/2026, 4:14:17 PM
File name
SSDFresh.exe
Size
2.27 MB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
Win32 EXE
SHA-256
14a52416a76085501675dfd847ea8ed0deeb55d65f82d30105097926b515bc7f
MD5
8aa290694e3a1b0ae3adc127a31ac74b
SHA-1
4a0a3c1e26209d2535959c606cdb20d7c7408268
PE imphash
f34d5f2d4577ed6d9ceec516c1f5a744
First seen (VT)
6/12/2026, 10:29:36 AM
Last analysis (VT)
6/12/2026, 10:29:36 AM
First scan (MalwareTips)
6/18/2026, 4:14:17 PM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
6/18/2026, 4:14:17 PM
Code signer
Ascora GmbHverified
Behavior tags
peexesignedoverlayassemblydetect-debug-environment
Community classification

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