File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is ECNtl006.
Only Cynet flagged this unsigned DLL, while all 18 reporting major antivirus engines and the completed sandbox produced no corroborating malware finding.
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Moderate evidence · No engine flags it, but no publisher signature confirms who made it.
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Antivirus results
1 of 72 flagged
- Flagged 1
- No detection 71
- No result 4
- Code signing Unsigned
- Test run Completed
- First seen 3y ago
Chapter 02
Why we think so
4 points against it and 5 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
The lone detection comes from Cynet, a less reliable engine, while 18 major antivirus engines reported no detection. One completed sandbox found no offensive techniques, malicious verdict, persistence, files it created, or network contacts, and the antivirus analysis showed no packing indicators.
Only 1 of the 72 antivirus engines that checked it flagged the DLL, and that result came from the less reliable Cynet engine without a named family. All 18 reporting major antivirus engines produced no detection, which makes the isolated generic alert likely to be a false positive. One sandbox run recorded techniques common in legitimate software, including environment checking, but no offensive techniques, malicious sandbox verdict, persistence, dropped hashes, or network contacts. Static PE analysis found neither high-entropy code nor likely packing, and external intelligence produced no corroborating hits. The DLL is unsigned, so its publisher and provenance remain unverified, and no complete contacted-host reputation result is available.
What We Detected
Cynet was the only engine to flag the sample among 76 engines, using a generic malicious score rather than a named malware family. No major antivirus engines detected it: no major antivirus engines flagged it and 18 major antivirus engines reported it clean. YARAify, CIRCL, and MalwareBazaar provided no corroborating intelligence hits.
Threat Behavior
One completed sandbox run recorded four techniques common in legitimate software, including system-information discovery, rundll32 execution, application-layer protocol behavior, and environment-evasion checks. It found no offensive techniques, malicious sandbox verdict, persistence indicators, dropped file hashes, or network contacts. The antivirus analysis also found no packer, high-entropy code, or likely packing. Because no contacted-host reputation result was saved, no separate complete host-reputation cross-check is available.
What To Do Now
Keep security software enabled and obtain the DLL from its expected software package or official distribution channel. If its origin is unknown or it appeared unexpectedly, quarantine it and verify the surrounding application before loading it with rundll32 or another host process.
Where this verdict could be wrong4 caveats
- Cynet reported “Malicious (score: 100),” although no second engine or named malware family corroborated that generic result.
- The file is unsigned for a Win32 DLL, so publisher identity and a trusted signer history are unavailable.
- The observed environment-evasion technique and long-sleep/debug-environment tags can occur in evasive software, but no offensive techniques were mapped and no malicious sandbox verdict accompanied them.
- The missing contacted-host reputation result means no complete host-reputation cross-check is available, although the sandbox recorded no network contacts.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- Only 1/72 engines flagged the file, and only less reliable engines flagged it.
- No major antivirus engines flagged it with 18 major antivirus engines reporting no detection.
- No offensive techniques were mapped and no sandbox returned a malicious verdict.
- No persistence indicators, dropped file hashes, or observed network contacts were recorded.
- No code section has packed-level entropy and the file does not appear packed.
- The Win32 DLL is unsigned, so publisher identity cannot be verified.
- Cynet produced one generic malicious detection.
- Sandbox evidence includes environment-evasion behavior.
- No complete contacted-host reputation cross-check 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- 4sandbox rule tags
- 1spawned processes
- 0network contacts
- 1filesystem & mutex artifacts
Includes 4 mapped techniques and every process, file, registry and network entry.
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Technical details
1 of the 72 antivirus engines that checked it flags 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 1
The saved verdict treats these detections as likely false positives.
- CynetMalicious (score: 100)
File fingerprint
- Last analyzed
- Sep 10, 2026, 12:44 PM UTC
- SHA-256
25a24aea554cefe38f9f92cb05562665fa94fbd3326f2b5dc6b987b7465401ba- SHA-1
d017fcc05ad8ec6ab71eff2da27b254a1ab97fdf- MD5
d2c654ac4d6d8906bd88bff148e050e4
About this file
ECNtl006.dll is a Win32 DLL file of 10.8 kB.
- Type and size
- Win32 DLL · 10.8 kB
- Signer
- UnsignedNo code signature.
- First seen
- Feb 4, 2023On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 7 distinct sourcesRarely seen: few people have submitted this exact file.
- Packer
- None detected
- Entropy
- 4.25 of 8
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Includes every engine result (76), PE section entropy and packers and how widely the file has been seen.
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