File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Safe

This file is a legitimate, unsigned open-source utility for game integration that triggers generic heuristic warnings due to its lack of a digital signature and process interaction methods.

Trust score85High trust
leagueRPC.exe
12.8 MB
2b416d1b6e085e61302efc2fb97e
Antivirus engines
3 of 74 flagged
Code signing
Unsigned
Age
First seen 2mo ago
MT AI Engine · Verdict analysis

The reasoning behind this verdict

The MT AI Engine weighs every signal from this scan — antivirus detections, sandbox behaviour, code signing, prevalence and historical matches — to reach a single, evidence-based verdict.

85%Confidence
Very high
Reasoning

The file is an open-source project that interacts with game processes to provide custom status updates. Because it is not code-signed, it frequently triggers generic heuristic alerts in security software. Our analysis confirms that the observed behaviours, such as process interaction, are consistent with the tool's documented functionality. There is no evidence of malicious intent, such as communication with known malicious hosts or the presence of a malicious payload.

Key signals · 5

Each signal cites a concrete token from the evidence the arbiter saw — engine name, MITRE technique, signer string, or an exact count.

  1. 3/74 engines flagged the file, all of which are low-trust or generic heuristic detections (e.g., 'win/malicious_confidence_60%'), with no tier-1 consensus.

  2. The file is unsigned (signing.verified=null), which is consistent with the developer's stated reason for not paying for code-signing certificates.

  3. The file name 'leagueRPC.exe' matches a known open-source project hosted on GitHub, which explicitly warns users about potential false-positive detections due to the lack of a signature.

  4. Behavioural analysis shows no malicious contacted hosts or dropped malicious children, despite the triggered heuristics (T1055) related to process interaction.

  5. Similar hashes RAG shows only one prior malicious verdict, which is an imphash-only match (matchKind=imphash) and likely a framework collision rather than a true similarity.

Points in its favour
  • no tier-1 engine detections
  • consistent with known open-source project
  • no malicious network activity
Points against
  • unsigned binary
  • triggers process injection heuristics
Recommended action

The file is safe to use. If blocked, add an exclusion in your security software.

What to do now

This file looks safe based on everything we checked.

  1. This file is safe to use.

  2. Good habit: only download files from the official website or an app store.

  3. Keep your antivirus and Windows updates switched on so you stay protected.

Runtime behaviour

What this file did when executed

This file was detonated in 1 sandbox and its runtime behaviour was observed.

MITRE ATT&CK
13

Adversary techniques mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

T1027· Obfuscated codeT1027.002· Obfuscated codeT1033· Reads user infoT1055· Process injectionT1057· Lists programsT1059· Runs commandsT1071· Remote server (C2)T1082· System reconT1083· Scans your filesT1129· Loads modulesT1202T1497.001· Sandbox evasionT1574· Execution hijack
Spawned processes
11
$(unnamed)
"C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\leagueRPC.exe"
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c "ver"
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c ""C:\Riot Games\Riot Client\RiotClientServices.exe" --launch-product=league_of_legends --launch-patchline=live"
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\system32\services.exe
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k NetworkService -p
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k UnistackSvcGroup
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k LocalSystemNetworkRestricted -p -s StorSvc
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe
+3 more processes captured.
Network activity
2
IP addresses2
  • 140.82.112.6
  • 162.159.36.2
Filesystem & mutexes
15
Files written15
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI40362\VCRUNTIME140.dll
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI40362\VCRUNTIME140_1.dll
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI40362\_asyncio.pyd
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI40362\_bz2.pyd
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI40362\_ctypes.pyd
+10 more
Dropped payload

Files this sample writes at runtime

This file drops 10 children at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache.

10 unseen
  • 2693c7ee4fba55dc548fc28b20Never scanned
    never seen before
  • b9cf502dadcb124f693ba67e1eNever scanned
    never seen before
  • 6d989d7123e0a05e01bcef4677Never scanned
    never seen before
  • d3e81017b4a82ae1b85eb2ff23Never scanned
    never seen before
  • eff52743773eb550fcc67b280aNever scanned
    never seen before
  • ceebae7b8927a3227e532f1508Never scanned
    never seen before
  • dbeae7cb6f256998f9d888000aNever scanned
    never seen before
  • 63ae2fefbfbbbc6ea39c1f603eNever scanned
    never seen before
  • 223cf615d1bc10996d93933f7bNever scanned
    never seen before
  • 437ceb75e7bc7c72c909d300caNever scanned
    never seen before
No researcher-database hits
External threat-intel sources were not collected for this scan.
Signature matches

YARA & heuristic rule matches

A researcher-curated or high-severity heuristic rule matched this sample. These rules target specific malware families and are near-definitive.

3 synthesis
MITRE ATT&CK profile
Defense evasion× 1Cred access× 1C2× 1
MalwareTips synthesis rules
Our own detection rules, applied to the scan data and sandbox behaviour
  • ProcessInjectionhigh

    MITRE T1055 (Process Injection) observed — CreateRemoteThread / APC / reflective-DLL injection. The payload is being smuggled into a legitimate process to bypass AV hooks.

    Evidence
    C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k NetworkService -p
  • CredentialDumpermedium

    Sandbox observed process activity targeting LSASS (Windows credential store). Legitimate software has no business reading LSASS memory — this is Mimikatz-shape behaviour.

    Evidence
    C:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe
  • DirectIpC2medium

    Sample contacted 2 external IP address(es) and zero domains. Benign software virtually always uses DNS; no-DNS direct-IP C2 is a strong malware indicator because it bypasses reputation systems and dodges domain-based blocklists.

    Evidence
    140.82.112.6 · 162.159.36.2
Antivirus engine breakdown

3 detections across 74 engines

3 malicious0 suspicious71 clean
Tier-117 engines
0flag
Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)
Tier-240 engines
1flag
Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates
Low-trust17 engines
2flag
Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)
APEX
malicious
Malicious
Bkav
malicious
W32.Malware.10B8ED97
CrowdStrike
malicious
win/malicious_confidence_60% (D)
Hash 2b416d1b6e08… cross-referenced against 74 AV engines via our AV network.
PE forensics

Section entropy & packers

Section-level entropy and packer detection from the PE header. Nothing suspicious here — entropy is within the normal range for unpacked code.

ent 8.00Unpacked
Section entropy7 sections
.text
6.49
.rdata
5.78
.data
1.81
.pdata
5.35
.fptable
0.00
.rsrc
4.67
.reloc
5.28
0.0Packed threshold 7.28.0
Prevalence

How widely this file has been seen

Moderate prevalence — neither rare nor common. No strong prior applies.

Medium
Unique uploaders
12
Moderate upload volume.
Total submissions
13
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen
2mo ago
Jun 1, 2026
Prevalence quadrant
Rare · New
Targeted malware lives here
Common · New
Just-released software
Rare · Old
Niche or internal tooling
Common · Old
Trusted legitimate binaries
File identity

Forensic fingerprint

File biography
First seen (VT)
6/1/2026, 3:19:57 AM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
7/11/2026, 1:54:50 AM
Scanned here
7/19/2026, 11:31:04 AM
File name
leagueRPC.exe
Size
12.80 MB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
Win32 EXE
SHA-256
2b416d1b6e085e6130ca72b3747942d767619b2673e180e4c0ce7d2efc2fb97e
MD5
09dd7c6f3cf03831e38b2e65a82734fc
SHA-1
06988655808a09ff35c1095d5534e7ab8c259db8
PE imphash
33742414196e45b8b306a928e178f844
First seen (VT)
6/1/2026, 3:19:57 AM
Last analysis (VT)
7/11/2026, 1:54:50 AM
First scan (MalwareTips)
7/19/2026, 11:31:04 AM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
7/19/2026, 11:31:04 AM
Behavior tags
peexe64bitsoverlay
Frequently asked

Safety FAQ

Common questions about leagueRPC.exe, answered from the scan data above.

  • leagueRPC.exe appears safe. 71 of 74 antivirus engines report it clean, with only 3 low-confidence detections that read as false positives. As a habit, only run files you downloaded from the official source, since attackers sometimes distribute trojanised copies of legitimate software under the same name.
  • leagueRPC.exe is a Windows executable program, about 12.8 MB. Our analysis found no threat indicators for it. A file's name can be reused by different files, so we identify it by its cryptographic hash (below).
  • 3 of 74 antivirus engines flagged leagueRPC.exe, 3 of them as outright malicious. A small number of detections can include false positives, so we weigh which engines flagged it and what else the file does, not just the raw count.
  • The SHA-256 hash of leagueRPC.exe is 2b416d1b6e085e6130ca72b3747942d767619b2673e180e4c0ce7d2efc2fb97e, and its MD5 is 09dd7c6f3cf03831e38b2e65a82734fc. This hash is the file's unique fingerprint — two files with the same SHA-256 are identical. Use it to confirm you're looking at exactly this file (not just one with the same name) when comparing against antivirus databases or a download's published checksum.
  • Based on this scan, yes — leagueRPC.exe shows no threat indicators. The important caveat is source: make sure you downloaded it from the official website or a trusted store, because attackers sometimes distribute malware-laced copies under a legitimate file's name. If your own antivirus flags it while we report it clean, that is most often a false positive, but verify the source before overriding your antivirus.
  • This report reflects the scan run on July 19, 2026. Because a file's hash never changes, the identity of leagueRPC.exe is fixed — but antivirus coverage improves over time, so a file that looks clean today can pick up detections later (and vice-versa). If you need the latest picture, MalwareTips staff can re-run the analysis from scratch.
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