File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is Setup Tape v2.
No engine detected malware in this long-established installer, although its unsigned status and potentially offensive runtime techniques justify obtaining it from a trusted source.
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Strong evidence · Widely seen for a long time, and nothing harmful found.
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Antivirus results
0 of 71 flagged
- Flagged 0
- No detection 71
- No result 4
- Code signing Unsigned
- Test run Completed
- First seen 5y ago
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Why we think so
5 points against it and 4 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
All 71 antivirus engines that checked it were free of detections, including 17 major antivirus engines, and the file has circulated since 2021 across 144 sources. One sandbox mapped potentially offensive techniques and direct-IP traffic, but produced no malicious verdict; because host-reputation coverage is unavailable and the executable is unsigned, use only a trusted copy.
The strongest evidence is the complete absence of detections across 75 engines, including 17 major antivirus engines. The sample has also been submitted 169 times by 144 sources since 2021, giving security products substantial time and exposure to identify known malware. A completed sandbox mapped T1055, T1134, and T1547.001, but did not issue a malicious verdict, and no inspected child was identified as malicious. The executable is unsigned, and its direct-IP contacts were not covered by a saved host-reputation cross-check, so those aspects remain cautionary rather than exculpatory. No family consensus, curated intelligence hit, brand mismatch, suspicious packing, or confirmed malicious child supports a malware attribution.
What We Detected
No antivirus engine flagged the sample: 0 of 75 detections, with all 17 major antivirus engines reporting no detection. It has circulated since January 2021, with 169 submissions from 144 sources, and no malware family consensus or curated intelligence match was present.
Threat Behavior
One completed sandbox run mapped activity to T1055, T1134, and T1547.001, including possible process injection, token-related activity, and startup persistence. It also observed direct connections to external IP addresses, but no malicious sandbox verdict was issued. A complete reputation result for those contacted hosts is unavailable, and the 10 dropped files were not individually confirmed benign even though none was identified as malicious.
What To Do Now
Confirm the SHA-256 hash and obtain the installer from the software vendor or another trusted release channel, since the executable lacks a digital signature. Keep security software enabled and avoid running the file if its source or expected purpose cannot be verified.
Where this verdict could be wrong4 caveats
- Code signing applies to this file type but the file is unsigned, so publisher identity and integrity cannot be authenticated.
- The completed sandbox mapped activity to T1055, T1134, and T1547.001, including possible process injection and persistence-related behavior.
- triggeredHeuristics includes one of our behaviour rules after direct connections to external IP addresses; the missing contacted-host reputation result means no complete host-reputation result is available.
- All 10 inspected files it created have unknown individual verdicts, despite the absence of a known-malicious dropped file.
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- 0 of the 71 antivirus engines that checked it detected malware
- Long-established sample with 169 submissions from 144 sources
- No malicious sandbox verdict
- No known malicious file it created or curated intelligence hit
- Unsigned Windows executable with no authenticated publisher
- Sandbox mapping to process injection
- Sandbox mapping to access-token manipulation
- Sandbox mapping to registry or startup-folder persistence
- Direct external-IP contacts without a complete host-reputation cross-check
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 partial. See every source
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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- 19sandbox rule tags
- 8spawned processes
- 1network contact
- 35filesystem & mutex artifacts
Includes 19 mapped techniques, every process, file, registry and network entry and 9 dropped files.
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Technical details
None of the 71 antivirus engines that checked it flag it; no publisher signature.
Sources checked
Every check behind this verdict
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 partial. Complete means the check returned a usable result; it does not mean the file is safe.
File fingerprint
- Last analyzed
- Sep 12, 2026, 9:49 AM UTC
- SHA-256
24bc836f321d52949364ca529c48772fb4cfa250ed42b82c19a2aa670ae49c96- SHA-1
130bf16a954853d535f6b5942088aa8f733d002a- MD5
5522ed08b6c1479b9a669fc9f64ec64b
About this file
Setup Tape v2.5.9.exe is a Win32 EXE file of 36.1 MB.
- Type and size
- Win32 EXE · 36.1 MB
- Signer
- UnsignedNo code signature.
- First seen
- Jan 5, 2021On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 144 distinct sources
- Packer
- None detected
- Entropy
- 8.00 of 8
First scanned
Includes every engine result (75), 1 matched signature rule, PE section entropy and packers and how widely the file has been seen.
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