File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Safe

Windows shortcut file with no detections across 61 engines including all tier-1 vendors; no malicious behaviour or network indicators observed.

Trust score88High trust
MT AI confidence · 78%
Madium.lnk
1.9 KB
21136db5ff8dd7ea2d38ac8362c9
Antivirus engines
0 of 75 flagged
Code signing
Unsigned
Age
First-seen today
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.

78%Confidence
High
Reasoning

The file is a Windows shortcut with no detections across a broad engine network. Tier-1 vendors (Kaspersky, Microsoft, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Fortinet, Avast, AVG, Avira, DrWeb, Emsisoft, F-Secure, GData) all report it clean or undetected. No behavioural sandbox data, dropped children, or malicious host contacts are present. External intelligence sources (CIRCL, MalwareBazaar, YARAify) returned no hits. The file's rare-new prevalence (1 submission) limits reputation data, but the absence of any malicious signal across 61 reporting engines, especially tier-1 vendors, indicates the file is not known malware.

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.tier1Malicious=0; tier1ReportedClean=15 (Kaspersky, Microsoft, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Fortinet, Avast, AVG, Avira, DrWeb, Emsisoft, F-Secure, GData silent)

  2. engines.malicious=0, suspicious=0 across 61 reporting engines — no detections

  3. prevalence.classification='rare_new' (1 submission, 1 source) — insufficient data for reputation

  4. signing.verified=false, unsigned file with no signer history

  5. behaviour=null, droppedChildren=null, contactedHosts=null, externalIntel all negative — no malicious indicators

Points in its favour
  • All 15 tier-1 antivirus engines report clean or undetected
  • Zero malicious detections across 61 reporting engines
  • No sandbox malicious verdicts or dropped children
  • No contacted malicious hosts or external intel hits
  • No adversarial filename or signer injection patterns
What to do

The file is safe to use based on the absence of detections across leading antivirus vendors and no observed malicious behaviour. If you downloaded it from a trusted source, proceed normally.

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

0 detections across 75 engines

0 malicious0 suspicious75 clean
Tier-117 engines
0flag
Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)
Tier-238 engines
0flag
Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates
Low-trust20 engines
0flag
Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)
All 75 engines report this file as clean.
Hash 21136db5ff8d… cross-referenced against 75 AV engines via our AV network.
Prevalence

How often this file shows up in the wild

Barely seen in the wild and first surfaced recently. This is the footprint of targeted malware the AV industry hasn't signatured yet — extra scrutiny is warranted.

Rare & new
Unique uploaders
1
Very few people have ever uploaded this — rare.
Total submissions
1
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen by VT
0d ago
Jun 26, 2026
Prevalence quadrant
here
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)
6/26/2026, 12:02:23 PM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
6/26/2026, 12:02:23 PM
Scanned here
6/26/2026, 12:05:59 PM
File name
Madium.lnk
Size
1.9 KB
MIME type
application/octet-stream
Detected type
Windows shortcut
SHA-256
21136db5ff8dd7ea2dcc341ac5a99304200d9de7def67677fa1f1438ac8362c9
MD5
f494941f31b06663685414a7c90e721c
SHA-1
eb9b3515c3671fd0670c27572469888d1a1e52a2
First seen (VT)
6/26/2026, 12:02:23 PM
Last analysis (VT)
6/26/2026, 12:02:23 PM
First scan (MalwareTips)
6/26/2026, 12:03:38 PM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
6/26/2026, 12:05:59 PM
Behavior tags
lnk
Community classification

Reviews & malware reports(0)

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