File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is dsetup.
No antivirus engine detected this long-established, Microsoft-signed DirectX setup DLL, while its broad YARA matches lack supporting malicious runtime or file it created evidence.
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Strong evidence · A verified publisher signature, and no engine flags it.
Allow it when its source and installation context match a legitimate DirectX or trusted software package. If its origin is unexpected, obtain a fresh copy from the official distributor while keeping security protection enabled.
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Antivirus results
0 of 70 flagged
- Flagged 0
- No detection 70
- No result 5
- Code signing Microsoft Corporation
- Test run Completed
- First seen 15y 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
All 70 antivirus engines that checked it avoided a malware detection, including the reporting major antivirus engines, and the signature verifies as Microsoft Corporation. Although five community YARA rules and a mapping warrant notice, the file has extensive historical prevalence, no malicious sandbox verdict, and no malicious file it created.
The strongest evidence is the complete absence of detections across 75 antivirus engines, with 16 major antivirus engines reporting no detection. The DLL carries a verified Microsoft Corporation signature and has been widely submitted since 2011. Its completed sandbox run produced no malicious verdict, and none of the 10 inspected files it created was identified as malicious. Five community YARA rules matched, but several are generic, and the ransomware-named rule lacks corroboration from engines, runtime verdicts, or file it created analysis. The mapping and direct-IP activity remain cautionary signals, although host-reputation coverage did not encompass all observed contacts. Five prior Microsoft-signer matches also received benign-installer reason codes, reinforcing the publisher context.
What We Detected
No malware detection was reported by any of 75 antivirus engines. The DLL has a verified Microsoft Corporation signature, and the recognised-publisher check confirms the publisher against the curated list. It is also well established, with 3,213 sources and 5,299 submissions dating back to 2011.
Threat Behavior
One completed sandbox mapped activity to T1055 and recorded direct-IP connections, but it did not issue a malicious sandbox verdict. Ten files it created were inspected without a malicious child finding. Five community YARA rules matched; however, most are broad static patterns, and the VECT_Ransomware rule is unsupported by antivirus family labels or observed ransomware behavior. Only two contacted URLs were reputation-checked while additional IP contacts were recorded, so a complete host-reputation result is unavailable.
What To Do Now
Use the DLL only when it comes from the expected Microsoft DirectX redistributable or a trusted software package. Keep security software enabled and re-download the installer from its official distributor if the file appeared unexpectedly or outside a legitimate application directory.
Where this verdict could be wrong4 caveats
- A count of 5 matching community YARA rules includes VECT_Ransomware, although the other matches cover certificates, debug output, Go detection, and broad obfuscation patterns.
- The sandbox's offensive-technique list includes T1055, but the completed sandbox supplied no malicious verdict.
- One of our behaviour rules cites 13 IP addresses, while contactedHosts inspected only 2 observed URLs; therefore no complete host-reputation result is available.
- The signer-history record includes 1 malicious result among 18 Microsoft-signed historical samples, so signer history is strongly favorable but not perfect.
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- 0/70 antivirus engines reported a malicious result.
- Verified signature from Microsoft Corporation.
- Trusted publisher match for Microsoft.
- Common, long-established file with 5,299 submissions since 2011.
- No malicious sandbox verdict or malicious file it created.
- Five community YARA rules matched, including VECT_Ransomware.
- Evidence from the test run mapped possible process injection to MITRE T1055.
- The sample contacted 13 IP addresses directly.
- Host-reputation coverage was incomplete for all observed network contacts.
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- 16sandbox rule tags
- 3spawned processes
- 14network contacts
- 40filesystem & mutex artifacts
Includes 16 mapped techniques, every process, file, registry and network entry and 10 dropped files.
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Technical details
None of the 70 antivirus engines that checked it flag it; signed by Microsoft Corporation.
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 11, 2026, 1:22 PM UTC
- SHA-256
2a61679eeedabf7d0d0ac14e5447486575622d6b7cfa56f136c1576ff96da21f- SHA-1
7897418f0fae737a3ebe4f7954118d71c6c8b426- MD5
eb701def7d0809e8da765a752ab42be5
About this file
dsetup.dll is a Win32 DLL file of 95.6 kB.
- Type and size
- Win32 DLL · 95.6 kB
- Signer
- Microsoft CorporationValid code signature.
- First seen
- Apr 19, 2011On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 3,213 distinct sources
- Packer
- None detected
- Entropy
- 7.39 of 8
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Includes every engine result (75), 6 matched signature rules, PE section entropy and packers and how widely the file has been seen.
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