File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is Whisper
None of the 61 antivirus engines that checked it flag this widely shared desktop speech-to-text executable, and our sandbox runs recorded no high-risk behaviour or contact with…
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Strong evidence · Widely seen for a long time, and nothing harmful found.
This file appears to be legitimate software. Use copies obtained from the official project release page and keep your security software enabled.
Good practice2 tips
We found nothing harmful in this file.
Run it only if it came from the developer's own website or an official app store.
Keep your antivirus and Windows updates switched on.
No scanner can promise a file is 100% safe.
Antivirus results
0 of 61 flagged
- Flagged 0
- No detection 61
- No result 14
- Code signing Unsigned
- Test run Completed
- First seen 3y ago
Chapter 02
Why we think so
2 points against it and 4 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
None of the 61 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this file, including 13 major antivirus engines that returned clean results. It has been shared by nearly 800 sources over more than three years. Five sandbox runs showed no high-risk techniques, no injection and no persistence, so the file looks like ordinary desktop software.
No engine detects the file, and the major antivirus engines that analysed it reported it clean. Its long history and wide distribution are typical of a popular open-source utility, not of targeted malware. The sandbox runs recorded only techniques common in legitimate software, with no injection into other processes and no persistence. The direct-IP network rule matched addresses that sit alongside the analysis machine's Microsoft background traffic, and none of the 22 hosts we checked has a bad reputation. The missing code signature is the main gap, but it is common for community-built tools.
What We Detected
None of the 61 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this unsigned 64-bit executable. Thirteen major antivirus engines returned clean results, and about 800 distinct sources have shared it since mid-2023.
Threat Behavior
Five sandbox runs recorded only techniques common in legitimate software, such as registry queries, system information discovery and module loading. There was no process injection, no persistence and no malicious sandbox result. The network traffic matched content-delivery and Microsoft address ranges, and none of the inspected hosts has a malicious or suspicious reputation.
What To Do Now
Download the tool only from its official project page, keep your antivirus enabled, and rescan any copy obtained from somewhere else.
Where this verdict could be wrong2 caveats
- The file is unsigned, so no publisher identity backs it.
- One external community scanner labelled it suspicious based on anti-debug and packing tags, though no engine detects it.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- None of the 61 antivirus engines that checked it flagged it.
- Widely distributed for over three years by about 800 sources.
- Five sandbox runs showed no high-risk techniques, injection or persistence.
- None of the 22 contacted hosts we checked has a bad reputation.
- The executable is not code-signed, so no publisher identity is attached.
- It connected directly to several IP addresses, although they appear to be content-delivery and Microsoft infrastructure.
6 sources checked · all complete. See every source
Chapter 03
What it did in our test
It ran in 5 isolated tests; no test environment rated what it did as risky.
Test run summary
Capture complete- 5isolated sandbox runs
- 9sandbox rule tags
- 3spawned processes
- 17network contacts
- 15filesystem & mutex artifacts
Includes the sandbox verdicts, 9 mapped techniques and every process, file, registry and network entry.
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Technical details
None of the 61 antivirus engines that checked it flag it; no publisher signature.
Sources checked
Every check behind this verdict
6 sources checked · all complete. Complete means the check returned a usable result; it does not mean the file is safe.
File fingerprint
- Last analyzed
- Oct 21, 2026, 1:42 PM UTC
- SHA-256
241e5d64de4c10377fb3f87da2da0a428069e3b268fa357b6d13bb8a634de9c7- SHA-1
36632bcfb51be92cd2907c4f9c879dd01b200b8f- MD5
dc8fb5f2b64fc7324fe5904318d64b40
About this file
WhisperDesktop.exe says it is OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) model, 332.8 kB.
- Claims to be
- OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) modelFrom the file's own version information, written by whoever built it.
- Original name
- WhisperDesktop.exeMatches the shared file name.
- Type and size
- Win32 EXE · 332.8 kB
- Signer
- UnsignedNo code signature.
- First seen
- Jul 23, 2023On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 792 distinct sources
- Packer
- None detected
- Entropy
- 6.33 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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