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
What this file did when executed
This file was run in a sandbox and its runtime behaviour was observed.
Techniques observed in the sandbox
10MITRE ATT&CK techniques the sandbox mapped. Highlighted ones are rare in normal software; the others are common in legitimate programs too.
- T1056· Keylogging
- T1056.004· Keylogging
- T1071· Application protocol
- T1082· System recon
- T1083· Scans your files
- T1129· Loads modules
- T1218.011
- T1497· Sandbox evasion
- T1518.001· Checks your AV
- T1574.002· Execution hijack
Observed activity
Processes started
11Programs the file ran, with their command lines.
rundll32.exe"C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe" "C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\version.dll",#1loaddll32.exeC:\Windows\System32\loaddll32.exe loaddll32.exe "C:\Users\user\Desktop\version.dll"cmd.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe cmd.exe /C rundll32.exe "C:\Users\user\Desktop\version.dll",#1rundll32.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe rundll32.exe "C:\Users\user\Desktop\version.dll",#1rundll32.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe rundll32.exe C:\Users\user\Desktop\version.dll,GetFileVersionByHandlerundll32.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe rundll32.exe C:\Users\user\Desktop\version.dll,GetFileVersionInfoA
Show all 11 entries for processes started
rundll32.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe rundll32.exe C:\Users\user\Desktop\version.dll,GetFileVersionInfoExArundll32.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe rundll32.exe "C:\Users\user\Desktop\version.dll",GetFileVersionByHandlerundll32.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe rundll32.exe "C:\Users\user\Desktop\version.dll",GetFileVersionInfoArundll32.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe rundll32.exe "C:\Users\user\Desktop\version.dll",GetFileVersionInfoExArundll32.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe rundll32.exe "C:\Users\user\Desktop\version.dll",VerQueryValueW
Files
15Files the file created, changed or deleted.
- Written
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER7346.tmp - Written
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER7346.tmp.dmp - Written
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER7460.tmp - Written
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER7460.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml - Written
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER75D8.tmp - Written
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER75D8.tmp.xml
Show all 15 entries for files
- Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\DBG - Written
\Device\ConDrv\\Connect - Deleted
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER7346.tmp - Deleted
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER7346.tmp.dmp - Deleted
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER7460.tmp - Deleted
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER7460.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml - Deleted
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER75D8.tmp - Deleted
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER75D8.tmp.xml - Deleted
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER7614.tmp.csv
Registry and auto-start
1Settings the file changed, including ways to start again after a restart.
- Deleted
\REGISTRY\A\{9ec9a0f3-b499-4a34-2dc3-3a1d98c739fc}\Root\InventoryApplicationFile\PermissionsCheckTestKey
Mutexes
4Named locks a program uses so only one copy runs; malware families often reuse them.
NULL\Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\Local\WERReportingForProcess7600\Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\Global\AmiProviderMutex_InventoryApplicationFile\Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\Global\b5add6f8-bc7a-4ede-a62f-e295f958eeb8
Sandbox background — not the file
4The analysis machine's own processes and connections, recorded in every run.
- VM process
conhost.exeC:\Windows\System32\conhost.exe C:\Windows\system32\conhost.exe 0xffffffff -ForceV1 - VM process
WerFault.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -u -p 7600 -s 656 - VM process
WerFault.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -u -p 7780 -s 672 - VM process
WerFault.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -u -p 7796 -s 672
Files this sample writes at runtime
This file drops 8 children at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache. 8 have no saved verdict and were not checked; that is missing coverage, not a finding.
- f55b2cc9ff1df13df0c2…173a5aNot checkedno saved verdict
- daac44d75f8ab38918da…8c05beNot checkedno saved verdict
- d2c8daa5afaa896713b0…c8c319Not checkedno saved verdict
- c66b18090e87f37be11f…31a6a9Not checkedno saved verdict
- 68ee05ded6c07c357bba…5e6aa8Not checkedno saved verdict
- 68e1d50c7fd6c404e3cc…53fb27Not checkedno saved verdict
- 04afe5f7a9151f7f84f9…86b2e9Not checkedno saved verdict
- 19f148f1e8d3c8ec124e…4282f8Not checkedno saved verdict
Chapter 04
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
Antivirus consensus
2 of 68 engines flagged this file
7 of the 75 engines returned no result for this file (file type not supported, or the scan did not finish), so they did not check it.
- Tier-117 engines0flagged
- Tier-234 engines0flagged
- Low-trust17 engines2flagged
View all 75 engine results
- APEXMalicious: Malicious
- TrapmineMalicious: malicious.moderate.ml.score
- AcronisClean
- AhnLab-V3Clean
- AlibabaClean
- alibabacloudClean
- ALYacClean
- Antiy-AVLClean
- ArcabitClean
- AvastClean
- Avast-MobileNo result
- AVGClean
- AviraClean
- BitDefenderClean
- BitDefenderFalxNo result
- BkavClean
- CAT-QuickHealClean
- ClamAVClean
- CMCClean
- CrowdStrikeClean
- CTXClean
- CylanceClean
- CynetClean
- DeepInstinctClean
- DrWebClean
- ElasticClean
- EmsisoftClean
- ESET-NOD32Clean
- F-SecureClean
- FortinetClean
- GDataClean
- GoogleNo result
- GridinsoftClean
- huorongClean
- IkarusNo result
- JiangminClean
- K7AntiVirusClean
- K7GWClean
- KasperskyClean
- KingsoftClean
- LionicClean
- MalwarebytesClean
- MaxSecureClean
- McAfeeDClean
- MicrosoftClean
- MicroWorld-eScanClean
- NANO-AntivirusClean
- PaloaltoClean
- PandaClean
- RisingClean
- SangforClean
- SentinelOneClean
- SkyhighClean
- SophosClean
- SUPERAntiSpywareClean
- SymantecClean
- SymantecMobileInsightNo result
- TACHYONClean
- tehtrisClean
- TencentClean
- TrellixENSClean
- TrendMicroClean
- TrendMicro-HouseCallClean
- TrustlookNo result
- VaristClean
- VBA32Clean
- VIPREClean
- VirITClean
- ViRobotClean
- WebrootClean
- XcitiumClean
- YandexClean
- ZillyaNo result
- ZoneAlarmClean
- ZonerClean
Section entropy & packers
No high-entropy executable section or known packer signature was detected. Data and resource sections can still have high entropy without indicating packed code.
How widely this file has been seen
Widely seen in the wild for a long time. High prior this is legitimate; isolated detections on common-old files are usually false positives.
Chapter 05
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