File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is this text file safe? Yes, no threats found.
All 61 antivirus engines that checked it avoided flagging this plain-text sample, with 17 major antivirus engines reporting no detection and no external threat intelligence…
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Moderate evidence · No engine flags it, but no publisher signature confirms who made it.
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Antivirus results
0 of 61 flagged
- Flagged 0
- No detection 61
- No result 14
- Code signing Not applicable
- Test run Not applicable
- First seen 5mo ago
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Why we think so
4 points against it and 5 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
The sample is identified as plain text, despite its executable-looking double extension, and none of the 61 antivirus engines that checked it flagged it. No external intelligence source matched the hash, though behavior in the test run and contacted-host reputation were not available for assessment.
Static scanning produced no malicious or suspicious detections among 75 engines, including no detections from 17 major antivirus engines. The actual format is plain text rather than a Windows executable, so code-signing and PE analysis do not apply. No YARA rules, malware-repository record, or research-database match corroborated a threat. The double extension may be visually misleading, but it does not establish executable content or malicious intent. No sandbox run or complete contacted-host reputation result is available, so this conclusion is based on the file-format and static-scan evidence.
What We Detected
The 53,024-byte sample is identified as plain text even though its name ends in “.exe.txt.” None of the 61 antivirus engines that checked it reported a malicious or suspicious detection, and 17 major antivirus engines—including Microsoft, Kaspersky, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, and Avast—reported no detection. External checks found no matching YARA rules or known malware record.
Threat Behavior
No completed sandbox observation is available, so runtime actions cannot be described. Likewise, no complete contacted-host reputation result is available. The double extension could cause visual confusion, but the supplied format evidence does not identify the sample as an executable.
What To Do Now
Keep security software enabled and open the file only as text if its source is expected. If the operating system identifies it as an application rather than text, do not run it and obtain a fresh scan of the original file.
Where this verdict could be wrong3 caveats
- The name Text file uses a double extension that could mislead users about the file type, although the file type is text/plain and the engine results do not corroborate an executable threat.
- The absence of a completed sandbox run leaves behavior in the test run unobserved, and the missing contacted-host reputation result means no complete host-reputation cross-check is available.
- A count of 1 distinct submitter and a count of 1 submission indicate limited circulation history.
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- 0/61 engines reported malicious or suspicious findings.
- 17 major antivirus engines reported it clean and no major antivirus engines flagged it.
- The file type is text/plain and the file type is Text.
- The hash is not listed in the MalwareBazaar malware database.
- No community YARA rule matched.
- file.fileName='Text file' contains a potentially misleading double extension.
- The absence of a completed sandbox run leaves activity in the test run unobserved.
- The missing contacted-host reputation result leaves host-reputation coverage unavailable.
- A count of 1 distinct submitter indicates limited independent submission history.
6 sources checked · 4 complete · 2 not needed or not applicable. See every source
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Technical details
None of the 61 antivirus engines that checked it flag it.
Sources checked
Every check behind this verdict
6 sources checked · 4 complete · 2 not needed or not applicable. Complete means the check returned a usable result; it does not mean the file is safe.
File fingerprint
- File name
- Text file
- Format
- Text
- Size
- 53.0 kB
- Code signing
- Not applicable to this file type
- Last analyzed
- Sep 8, 2026, 6:41 PM UTC
- SHA-256
26cc929ac4ef06eb335699f814ecdac1cd65789bb6398b546d718cf21f3f4a18- SHA-1
853a4780ed476f9b19f8a731a4897c6a028c6a7a- MD5
e7170b5ed0430ef4cd28099f3d85a321
First scanned Updated
Antivirus consensus
0 of 61 engines flagged this file
14 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-118 engines0flagged
- Tier-232 engines0flagged
- Low-trust11 engines0flagged
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- AcronisClean
- AhnLab-V3Clean
- AlibabaNo result
- alibabacloudClean
- ALYacClean
- Antiy-AVLClean
- APEXNo result
- ArcabitClean
- AvastClean
- Avast-MobileNo result
- AVGClean
- AviraClean
- BitDefenderClean
- BitDefenderFalxNo result
- BkavClean
- CAT-QuickHealClean
- ClamAVClean
- CMCClean
- CrowdStrikeClean
- CTXClean
- CylanceNo result
- CynetClean
- DeepInstinctNo result
- DrWebClean
- ElasticNo result
- EmsisoftClean
- ESET-NOD32Clean
- F-SecureClean
- FortinetClean
- GDataClean
- GoogleClean
- GridinsoftClean
- huorongClean
- IkarusClean
- JiangminClean
- K7AntiVirusClean
- K7GWClean
- KasperskyClean
- KingsoftClean
- LionicClean
- MalwarebytesClean
- MaxSecureClean
- McAfeeDClean
- MicrosoftClean
- MicroWorld-eScanClean
- NANO-AntivirusClean
- PaloaltoNo result
- PandaClean
- RisingClean
- SangforClean
- SentinelOneNo result
- SkyhighClean
- SophosClean
- SUPERAntiSpywareClean
- SymantecClean
- SymantecMobileInsightNo result
- TACHYONClean
- tehtrisNo result
- TencentClean
- TrapmineNo result
- TrellixENSClean
- TrendMicroClean
- TrendMicro-HouseCallClean
- TrustlookNo result
- VaristClean
- VBA32Clean
- VIPREClean
- VirITClean
- ViRobotClean
- WebrootNo result
- XcitiumClean
- YandexClean
- ZillyaClean
- ZoneAlarmClean
- ZonerClean
How widely this file has been seen
Rarely uploaded, and first seen more than two weeks ago. Often niche legitimate software or internal tooling; not a strong malware signal on its own.
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