File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is version.
Only 2 of the 68 antivirus engines that checked it raised generic less reliable alerts, while established prevalence, major silence, and observed behavior provide no…
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Strong evidence · Widely seen for a long time, and nothing harmful found.
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Antivirus results
2 of 68 flagged
- Flagged 2
- No detection 66
- No result 7
- Code signing Unsigned
- Test run Completed
- First seen 2y ago
Chapter 02
Why we think so
5 points against it and 5 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
APEX and Trapmine produced the only alerts among 75 engines, and neither is a detection from a major antivirus engine or names a malware family. One completed sandbox run found no malicious verdict, offensive technique, persistence, or network contact, while the file has circulated broadly for more than two years.
Only 2 of the 68 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this DLL, and both alerts came from less reliable detectors using generic or machine-learning labels. Sixteen reporting major antivirus engines, including Avast, BitDefender, ESET, Kaspersky, and Fortinet, did not detect it, and there is no family consensus. One sandbox run observed DLL execution and other routine Windows activity but produced no malicious verdict, offensive technique, persistence indicator, or network contact. The file is neither packed nor high-entropy and has appeared in 164 submissions from 127 sources over 837 days. The unsigned status and unknown child-artifact verdicts reduce certainty, but the available evidence strongly supports a false-positive explanation.
What We Detected
Only 2 of the 68 antivirus engines that checked it raised alerts: APEX reported a generic malicious result, and Trapmine returned a generic machine-learning score. Both are less reliable detections; no major antivirus engines flagged it, and no engine family consensus exists. The file is unsigned, so there is no verified publisher identity to strengthen attribution.
Threat Behavior
One completed sandbox run recorded DLL loading, user-input checks, system discovery, and environment-detection activity. These observations produced no malicious sandbox verdict, no high-risk MITRE techniques, no persistence indicators, and no contacted domains, IP addresses, or URLs. No complete host-reputation cross-check is available because contactedHosts was not saved. Eight written artifacts were inspected without a known malicious child, although their individual verdicts remain unknown.
What To Do Now
The less reliable-only detection pattern, broad historical prevalence, lack of packing, and absence of corroborating external intelligence point toward generic false alarms. Keep security software enabled and obtain the DLL from its original trusted software package; if it appeared unexpectedly or is loaded by an unfamiliar application, quarantine it and verify the parent program before use.
Where this verdict could be wrong4 caveats
- Code signing applies to this file type but the file is unsigned, so no publisher identity or signer history supports the file.
- The sandbox recorded T1056, T1497, and T1574.002, including input checks, environment detection, and DLL-loading activity; these are routine here but merit context-aware caution.
- No contacted-host reputation result was saved, so no complete host-reputation cross-check is available.
- All 8 inspected files it created have unknown verdicts despite the absence of a known-malicious dropped file.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- No major antivirus engines flagged it with 16 reporting major antivirus engines clean
- No sandbox returned a malicious verdict and no offensive techniques were mapped
- No persistence indicators or observed network contacts
- prevalence shows 127 sources and 164 submissions over 837 days
- No code section has packed-level entropy and the file does not appear packed
- Unsigned Win32 DLL with no verified publisher identity
- 2/75 generic less reliable antivirus detections
- Sandbox recorded environment detection and DLL-loading techniques
- Eight child artifacts have unknown individual verdicts
- No complete contacted-host reputation result is available
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 not needed or not applicable. See every source
Chapter 03
What it did in our test
It ran in our isolated test environment; no test environment rated what it did as risky.
Test run summary
Capture complete- 10sandbox rule tags
- 11spawned processes
- 0network contacts
- 19filesystem & mutex artifacts
Includes 10 mapped techniques, every process, file, registry and network entry and 8 dropped files.
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Technical details
2 of the 68 antivirus engines that checked it flag it; no publisher signature.
Sources checked
Every check behind this verdict
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 not needed or not applicable. Complete means the check returned a usable result; it does not mean the file is safe.
Engines that flagged it 2
The saved verdict treats these detections as likely false positives.
- APEXMalicious
- Trapminemalicious.moderate.ml.score
File fingerprint
- Last analyzed
- Sep 8, 2026, 8:54 AM UTC
- SHA-256
1e0f45e082fb48f282fd9497e840af2d27ad757fc4fb87fe886ddcd7089b97ab- SHA-1
fba30921c49fb6c7effdce772bef9146a07e4b0e- MD5
78d930177b76642b401873f2b30fe9c5
About this file
version.dll is a Win32 DLL file of 10.2 kB.
- Type and size
- Win32 DLL · 10.2 kB
- Signer
- UnsignedNo code signature.
- First seen
- May 24, 2024On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 127 distinct sources
- Packer
- None detected
- Entropy
- 4.98 of 8
First scanned
Includes every engine result (75), PE section entropy and packers and how widely the file has been seen.
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