File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Safe

EPUB e-book with zero malicious detections across 16 tier-1 antivirus engines and no suspicious behaviour signals.

Trust score92High trust
MT AI confidence · 95%
Regime_Change_-_Maggie_Haberman.epub
5.1 MB
1cb602a42d8afa0bd76d47aeac01
Antivirus engines
0 of 74 flagged
Code signing
Unsigned
Age
First seen 5 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.

95%Confidence
Very high
Reasoning

The file is an e-book in EPUB format, not an executable, and therefore not subject to traditional malware analysis. Our antivirus network shows zero malicious detections across 65 reporting engines, including 16 high-trust vendors (Kaspersky, Microsoft, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Avira, Fortinet, Emsisoft, F-Secure, GData, DrWeb, Avast, AVG). No sandbox execution data, no dropped children, no malicious host contact, and no external threat intelligence hits (CIRCL, MalwareBazaar, YARAify) corroborate the clean status. The file is unsigned, which is normal for published e-books distributed through legitimate channels. Prevalence data shows 4 submissions from 4 sources over 5 days, a typical pattern for newly-released commercial content.

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: 0/65 reporting malicious; tier1Malicious=0; 16 tier-1 engines (Kaspersky, Microsoft, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Avira, Fortinet, Emsisoft, F-Secure, GData, DrWeb, Avast, AVG) all undetected

  2. fileType='E-book' (EPUB format) — not executable, no PE analysis applicable

  3. signing.verified=null, unsigned — consistent with legitimate published e-book distribution

  4. behaviour=null, droppedChildren=null, contactedHosts=null, externalIntel all negative (CIRCL, MalwareBazaar, YARAify hits=false)

  5. prevalence.classification='medium' (4 submitters, 4 submissions since 2026-06-23) — typical pattern for newly-published legitimate content

Points in its favour
  • Zero malicious detections across 65 antivirus engines
  • 16 tier-1 antivirus vendors all report clean
  • No sandbox execution data shows suspicious behaviour
  • No external threat intelligence hits (CIRCL, MalwareBazaar, YARAify)
  • Prevalence pattern consistent with legitimate published e-book
What to do

This file is safe. It is a legitimate EPUB e-book with no malicious indicators. Open it with any standard e-reader application.

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

0 detections across 74 engines

0 malicious0 suspicious74 clean
Tier-117 engines
0flag
Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)
Tier-237 engines
0flag
Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates
Low-trust20 engines
0flag
Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)
All 74 engines report this file as clean.
Hash 1cb602a42d8a… cross-referenced against 74 AV engines via our AV network.
Prevalence

How often this file shows up in the wild

Moderate prevalence — neither rare nor common. No strong prior applies.

Medium
Unique uploaders
4
Moderate upload volume.
Total submissions
4
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen by VT
5d ago
Jun 23, 2026
Prevalence quadrant
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)
6/23/2026, 11:46:57 AM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
6/23/2026, 11:46:57 AM
Scanned here
6/28/2026, 2:53:42 PM
File name
Regime_Change_-_Maggie_Haberman.epub
Size
5.05 MB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
E-book
SHA-256
1cb602a42d8afa0bd7f89fad8178647126ee5f3030cf7d0d838a636d47aeac01
MD5
5c94d0363bf093003b7382cdfe8eadfc
SHA-1
ba4b08659404a5e51ad1cf8b6a609786381eddf2
First seen (VT)
6/23/2026, 11:46:57 AM
Last analysis (VT)
6/23/2026, 11:46:57 AM
First scan (MalwareTips)
6/28/2026, 2:53:42 PM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
6/28/2026, 2:53:42 PM
Behavior tags
ebook
Community classification

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