File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Suspicious

Unsigned AutoClicker.exe exhibits process injection (T1055), direct IP contacts, and evasion tags but lacks tier-1 engine consensus amid low detections and high prevalence.

Trust score50Caution
MT AI confidence · 75%
AutoClicker.exe
1.1 MB
1ce7da6f2813c2ad1d894c9a6ec1
Antivirus engines
2 of 75 flagged
Code signing
Unsigned
Age
First seen 2y 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.

75%Confidence
High
Reasoning

Few engines flag this file, with no tier-1 detections and 17 tier-1 clean reports, suggesting potential overreach by lower-trust scanners. However, behavioural analysis reveals offensive MITRE techniques including process injection and token manipulation, corroborated by high-severity heuristics. Direct IP contacts bypassing DNS and suspicious process spawns like randomized Google updaters align with malware evasion. Despite common prevalence, the negative reputation and anti-analysis tags tip toward caution. Community notes are split, lacking ground truth.

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. Gridinsoft (tier2): Malware.Win64.XWorm.tr

  2. triggeredHeuristics[0].rule 'MalwareTips.Synth.ProcessInjection' fired (T1055)

  3. behaviour.contactedIps length=15 (e.g., '20.99.133.109'), contactedDomains=[]

  4. file.tags: 'detect-debug-environment', 'long-sleeps'

  5. file.reputation: -10

Points in its favour
  • engines.tier1Malicious=0, 17 tier1 clean
  • prevalence.common_old (60742 submissions)
  • No malicious dropped children or sandbox verdicts
  • No malicious contacted hosts
Points against
  • Process injection (T1055) heuristic fired
  • Direct IP C2 pattern (15 IPs, 0 domains)
  • Evasion tags: detect-debug-environment, long-sleeps
  • Suspicious fake Google updater processes
  • Negative reputation (-10) despite high prevalence
  • Gridinsoft tier2 'Malware.Win64.XWorm.tr' detection
What to do

Treat as suspicious: do not run, quarantine immediately, and upload to additional sandboxes for confirmation. If needed for automation, seek signed alternatives from trusted sources.

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.

T1010T1012T1016T1027T1033T1036T1055T1056.001T1057T1059T1071T1082T1083T1087T1105T1112T1113T1115T1129T1134T1134.001T1222T1497T1497.002+5 more
Spawned processes
12
$(unnamed)
"C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\file.exe"
$(unnamed)
%SAMPLEPATH%\AutoClicker.exe
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\System32\wuapihost.exe
$(unnamed)
%SAMPLEPATH%\1ce7da6f2813c2ad1d2e496be6714e08cd618e6d9fe2df26c2bd4d894c9a6ec1.exe
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\System32\UI0Detect.exe
$(unnamed)
C:\Program Files\Google3748_1814158737\bin\updater.exe
$(unnamed)
C:\Program Files\Google3676_1044453117\bin\updater.exe
$(unnamed)
C:\Users\user\Desktop\AutoClicker.exe
+4 more processes captured.
Network activity
20
IP addresses20
  • 20.99.133.109
  • 192.229.211.108
  • a83f:8110:0:0:1b00:100:2800:0
  • 192.168.0.43
  • 23.216.81.152
  • 131.253.33.203
  • 192.168.0.67
  • 23.55.140.42
  • 20.99.186.246
  • 23.198.171.50
+10 more
Filesystem & mutexes
30
Files written15
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\vthtdci
  • C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\ACLib\playback.ico
  • C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\ACLib\record.ico
  • C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\ACLib\stop.ico
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\dkecqvb
+10 more
Files deleted15
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\vthtdci
  • %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp\creqhzj
  • C:\Windows\System32\spp\store\2.0\cache\cache.dat
  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER314C.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER3330.tmp.csv
+10 more
Dropped payload

Files this sample writes at runtime

This file drops 4 children at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache.

4 unseen
  • 6f84c8650acc3464c42d0f8764Never scanned
    never seen before
  • 5375290e66a20bff81fb3fe80dNever scanned
    never seen before
  • 9e869f60ea0a0de06c7d649483Never scanned
    never seen before
  • 59d5e9106e907fa61a567287a6Never scanned
    never seen before
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\file.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
    20.99.133.109 · 192.229.211.108 · a83f:8110:0:0:1b00:100:2800:0
Antivirus engine breakdown

2 detections across 75 engines

2 malicious0 suspicious73 clean
Tier-117 engines
0flag
Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)
Tier-238 engines
1flag
Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates
Low-trust20 engines
1flag
Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)
Bkav
malicious
W64.AIDetectMalware
Gridinsoft
malicious
Malware.Win64.XWorm.tr
Hash 1ce7da6f2813… 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.

ent 7.68Unpacked
Section entropy6 sections
.text
6.51
.rdata
5.29
.data
1.16
.pdata
5.87
.rsrc
7.62
.reloc
5.15
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
3,732
Hundreds of people have uploaded this — common.
Total submissions
60,742
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen by VT
2y ago
Mar 30, 2024
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)
3/30/2024, 1:17:12 PM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
5/1/2026, 11:47:18 AM
Scanned here
5/1/2026, 2:11:19 PM
File name
AutoClicker.exe
Size
1.13 MB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
Win32 EXE
SHA-256
1ce7da6f2813c2ad1d2e496be6714e08cd618e6d9fe2df26c2bd4d894c9a6ec1
MD5
913a423f66aa1c41e374e21a911a3c20
SHA-1
449df612d0f02e868992faabfbf4d5d37c727936
PE imphash
161c85364c462057ba28801ac1ad5404
First seen (VT)
3/30/2024, 1:17:12 PM
Last analysis (VT)
5/1/2026, 11:47:18 AM
First scan (MalwareTips)
5/1/2026, 1:21:36 PM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
5/1/2026, 2:11:19 PM
Community reputation
-10flagged
Behavior tags
detect-debug-environmentoverlaypeexelong-sleeps64bits
Community classification

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