File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Malicious

GData tier-1 detection of PSEB family, corroborated by RAG consensus, process injection, direct-IP C2, and YARA hits.

pseb
Trust score18High risk
MT AI confidence · 82%
setup.exe
4.3 MB
16c82723b441f048a7ab90b343da
Antivirus engines
3 of 74 flagged
Code signing
Unsigned
Age
First seen 3y 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.

82%Confidence
High
Reasoning

The sample shows convergent malicious signals: GData tier-1 engine names PSEB family; RAG shows 2/3 prior imphash-matched samples verdicted malicious with the same family; behaviour analysis flags T1055 process injection and direct-IP C2 (15 IPs, no DNS) as high-severity indicators; yaraify matched 3 community YARA rules; contacted hosts include fitgirl-repacks.site (suspicious, warez distribution); reputation is negative; file is unsigned with no signer history. While only one tier-1 engine flagged it, the structural match (imphash), family consensus across RAG, and offensive behaviour patterns (injection + C2) establish malware classification.

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. GData (tier-1) flags 'Generic.Trojan.PSEB.X0G340' — named PSEB family

  2. similarHashes: 2/3 prior imphash-matched verdicts 'malicious' with reason='ai:tier1_consensus_pseb'

  3. triggeredHeuristics: T1055 Process Injection (high severity) + direct-IP C2 to 15 external IPs, zero domains

  4. yaraify: 3 community YARA rules matched (Borland, pe_detect_tls_callbacks, shellcode)

  5. contactedHosts: 'fitgirl-repacks.site' (suspicious, score=40) — known warez distribution; reputation=-9; unsigned, no signer history

Points in its favour
  • No malicious dropped children (10 inspected, 0 malicious)
  • No malicious sandbox verdict recorded (though process chain is suspicious)
Points against
  • Process injection (T1055) to bypass security hooks
  • Direct-IP C2 communication (15 external IPs, no DNS)
  • Contact with known warez distribution site (fitgirl-repacks.site)
  • Unsigned executable with negative reputation
  • PSEB malware family identified by tier-1 engine
  • Community YARA rules converged on malicious patterns
What to do

Block and quarantine this file immediately. The convergence of tier-1 detection, RAG consensus, process injection, C2 communication, and warez-site contact establishes malware classification. Do not execute or allow execution on any system.

Threat family attribution

crack corroborated by 3 sources

  • 3 YARA rules
    Borland, pe_detect_tls_callbacks, shellcode
  • VT (74 engines)
    crack
  • MT AI Engine
    pseb
Runtime behaviour

What this file did when executed

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

MITRE ATT&CK
29

Adversary techniques mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

T1012T1018T1027T1027.002T1033T1036T1046T1055T1056T1057T1059T1070.004T1071T1082T1083T1095T1105T1129T1134T1140T1222T1497T1497.001T1518.001+5 more
Spawned processes
15
$(unnamed)
"C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\executable.exe"
$(unnamed)
"C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\is-A3ASQ.tmp\executable.tmp" /SL5="$D0028,3979188,140800,C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\executable.exe"
$(unnamed)
%SAMPLEPATH%\setup.exe
$(unnamed)
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp\is-VMVD2.tmp\setup.tmp
$(unnamed)
%SAMPLEPATH%\16c82723b441f048a70938670cbd7b8e59429e3c62066db7788954ab90b343da.exe
$(unnamed)
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp\is-M6GA7.tmp\16c82723b441f048a70938670cbd7b8e59429e3c62066db7788954ab90b343da.tmp
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\System32\wuapihost.exe
$(unnamed)
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp\is-AFROP.tmp\16c82723b441f048a70938670cbd7b8e59429e3c62066db7788954ab90b343da.tmp
+7 more processes captured.
Network activity
23
IP addresses20
  • 23.216.147.76
  • 192.229.211.108
  • 20.99.185.48
  • 20.99.133.109
  • 20.99.184.37
  • 23.216.147.64
  • 20.99.186.246
  • a83f:8110:900:3000:3000:3000:6100:3000
  • a83f:8110:201:3ff:202:2ff:202:2ff
  • 184.25.191.235
+10 more
URLs3
  • http://bit.ly/fitgirl-repacks-site
  • http://fitgirl-repacks.site/
  • http://r3.i.lencr.org/
Filesystem & mutexes
40
Files written15
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\is-A3ASQ.tmp\executable.tmp
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\is-AH377.tmp\_isetup\_setup64.tmp
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\is-AH377.tmp\_isetup\_shfoldr.dll
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\is-AH377.tmp\idp.dll
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\is-AH377.tmp\innocallback.dll
+10 more
Files deleted15
  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WERFB19.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WERFBF4.tmp.csv
  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WERFC23.tmp.txt
  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER170D.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER174E.tmp.csv
+10 more
Mutexes created10
  • Local\DirectSound DllMain mutex (0x00001A10)
  • Local\RstrMgr3887CAB8-533F-4C85-B0DC-3E5639F8D511
  • Local\RstrMgr-3887CAB8-533F-4C85-B0DC-3E5639F8D511-Session0000
  • \Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\Local\RstrMgr3887CAB8-533F-4C85-B0DC-3E5639F8D511
  • \Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\Local\RstrMgr-3887CAB8-533F-4C85-B0DC-3E5639F8D511-Session0000
+5 more
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
  • 09af8004b85478e1eca047b449Never scanned
    never seen before
  • d92f7c60256509f74e3662ea29Never scanned
    never seen before
  • 58045dfbe8eb137de53d94d65dNever scanned
    never seen before
  • 450b9b0ba25bf068afbcfd0105Never scanned
    never seen before
  • f84677643d9977aa1e8a61f824Never scanned
    never seen before
  • 19a5466ab1834f9536626072f5Never scanned
    never seen before
  • ed8a485b9984997306eac78ee9Never scanned
    never seen before
  • 9884e9d1b4f8a873ccbd360d87Never scanned
    never seen before
  • b5918c0eac32ea3fcb3a3b1c7aNever scanned
    never seen before
  • fbbf18f351711497ef2c43fa39Never scanned
    never seen before
Network chain-of-malice

Who this file talks to on the internet

This sample contacts 1 host we've verdicted suspicious in our own URL scanner.

1 suspicious3 checked
Cross-referenced with our URL scanner cache. Click any host to see its report.
External threat intelligence

1 corroborating signal from researcher-curated sources

YARAify HIT·3 community rules matchedView on YARAify
  • Borlandby malware-lu
  • pe_detect_tls_callbacks
  • shellcodeby nex
    Matched shellcode byte patterns
Cross-referenced against MalwareBazaar (abuse.ch), YARAify, and the CIRCL hashlookup reference DB.
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 YARAify2 synthesis
MITRE ATT&CK profile
Defense evasion× 1C2× 1
YARAify (community)
Researcher-authored rules via abuse.ch
  • Borland
  • pe_detect_tls_callbacks
  • shellcode
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\executable.exe"
  • DirectIpC2medium

    Sample contacted 15 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
    23.216.147.76 · 192.229.211.108 · 20.99.185.48
Antivirus engine breakdown

3 detections across 74 engines

3 malicious0 suspicious71 clean
Tier-117 engines
1flag
Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)
Tier-237 engines
1flag
Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates
Low-trust20 engines
1flag
Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)
GData
malicious
Generic.Trojan.PSEB.X0G340
Malwarebytes
malicious
RiskWare.Crack
Webroot
malicious
W32.Malware.Gen
Hash 16c82723b441… 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 entropy8 sections
.text
6.48
.itext
6.02
.data
2.67
.bss
0.00
.idata
4.97
.tls
0.00
.rdata
0.19
.rsrc
4.16
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
1,542
Hundreds of people have uploaded this — common.
Total submissions
1,867
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen by VT
3y ago
Sep 13, 2023
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)
9/13/2023, 10:49:52 AM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
6/23/2026, 10:55:02 PM
Scanned here
6/25/2026, 10:41:54 AM
File name
setup.exe
Size
4.32 MB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
Win32 EXE
SHA-256
16c82723b441f048a70938670cbd7b8e59429e3c62066db7788954ab90b343da
MD5
6edbcf7f16d1f06b165297ae77166fff
SHA-1
1a6dfe4fca3421df0c6bac0f9b4d5980665c8480
PE imphash
483f0c4259a9148c34961abbda6146c1
First seen (VT)
9/13/2023, 10:49:52 AM
Last analysis (VT)
6/23/2026, 10:55:02 PM
First scan (MalwareTips)
6/25/2026, 10:41:54 AM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
6/25/2026, 10:41:54 AM
Community reputation
-9flagged
Behavior tags
peexedetect-debug-environmenthosts-modifierchecks-user-inputlong-sleepsoverlay
Community classification

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