File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Suspicious

New signed executable with one low-trust detection, process-injection heuristics, and direct-IP contact but clean tier-1 consensus.

Signed but unverified · Arnis
Trust score45Caution
MT AI confidence · 60%
arnis-windows.exe
39.3 MB
2bbfa21cba3d69207a93d570e918
Antivirus engines
1 of 75 flagged
Code signing
Unverified: Arnis
Age
First seen 15 days ago
MT AI Engine · our arbiter

The verdict, reasoned out.

Not a rules engine. The MT AI Engine reads every signal we collected, weighs them against history, and commits to an answer.

60%Confidence
Moderate
Reasoning

Engine coverage is strong (62 reporting) but the sole malicious result is low-trust with no family consensus, which normally indicates a false positive. Signing exists but carries no trusted-publisher or historical backing. Sandbox behaviour includes two offensive techniques and direct-IP contact without DNS, yet no sandbox flagged it malicious and dropped children are clean. The combination of new age, medium prevalence, and heuristic triggers without corroboration places the file in the suspicious category rather than safe or malicious.

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. onlyLowTrustFlagging: true with 1/62 reporting engines (Trapmine)

  2. offensiveTechniques: T1055, T1562.001 observed in sandbox

  3. signing.signer: 'Arnis' with no history or trustedPublisher match

  4. contactedIps: ['162.159.36.2'] and zero domains

  5. prevalence.classification: medium with 9 submitters

Points in its favour
  • Tier-1 engines all clean or timeout
  • No malicious sandbox verdict
  • No malicious dropped children
  • Medium prevalence across 9 sources
Points against
  • Process injection (T1055) observed
  • Direct IP contact without domains
  • Zero-day file (0 days old)
  • Invalid signature tag present
What to do

Treat as suspicious; do not run on sensitive systems. Monitor for additional detections and consider submitting to our research team for deeper analysis.

Sources disagree

1 contradiction resolved by the scoring engine

Only low-trust / heuristic engines flagged this file
1 engine from the heuristic / generic-AI set flagged it. No tier-1 engine agreed.
Detection weight reduced in scoring.
Runtime behaviour

What this file did when executed

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

MITRE ATT&CK
11

Adversary techniques mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

T1027T1033T1036T1055T1056T1059T1071T1082T1106T1562.001T1574
Spawned processes
4
$(unnamed)
"C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\arnis-windows.exe"
$(unnamed)
"C:\Users\user\Desktop\arnis-windows.exe"
$(unnamed)
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeWebView\Application\134.0.3124.93\msedgewebview2.exe" --embedded-browser-webview=1 --webview-exe-name=arnis-windows.exe --webview-exe-version=2.8.0 --user-data-dir="C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\com.louis…
$(unnamed)
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeWebView\Application\134.0.3124.93\msedgewebview2.exe" --type=crashpad-handler --user-data-dir=C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\com.louisdev.arnis\EBWebView /prefetch:4 /pfhostedapp:dede7328ac91dc26fa2402a72e…
Network activity
1
IP addresses1
  • 162.159.36.2
Filesystem & mutexes
18
Files written15
  • \Device\ConDrv\Connect
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\com.louisdev.arnis\logs\arnis.log
  • C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\com.louisdev.arnis
  • C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\com.louisdev.arnis\EBWebView
  • C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\com.louisdev.arnis\EBWebView\BrowserMetrics
+10 more
Mutexes created3
  • \Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\DBWinMutex
  • \Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\Local\ChromeProcessSingletonStartup!
  • \Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\__OMADM_NAMED_MUTEX__
Dropped payload

Files this sample writes at runtime

This file drops 2 children at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache.

2 unseen
  • 41c91a9c93d76295746a1cc304Never scanned
    never seen before
  • f7b24f2eb3d5eb0550528b5fedNever scanned
    never seen before
No researcher-database hits
External threat-intel sources were not collected for this scan.
Signature matches

YARA + heuristic rules that fired

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

2 synthesis
MITRE ATT&CK profile
Defense evasion× 1C2× 1
MalwareTips synthesis rules
Our heuristics on VT data + 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:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\arnis-windows.exe"
  • DirectIpC2medium

    Sample contacted 1 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
    162.159.36.2
Antivirus engine breakdown

1 detection across 75 engines

1 malicious0 suspicious74 clean
Tier-117 engines
0flag
Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)
Tier-238 engines
0flag
Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates
Low-trust20 engines
1flag
Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)
Trapmine
malicious
malicious.moderate.ml.score
Hash 2bbfa21cba3d… cross-referenced against 75 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 7.64Unpacked
Section entropy6 sections
.text
6.36
.rdata
4.26
.data
3.30
.pdata
6.95
.rsrc
7.97
.reloc
5.50
0.0Packed threshold 7.28.0
Prevalence

How often this file shows up in the wild

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

Medium
Unique uploaders
9
Moderate upload volume.
Total submissions
9
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen by VT
15d ago
May 19, 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)
5/19/2026, 2:02:00 PM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
5/19/2026, 2:02:00 PM
Scanned here
5/19/2026, 5:07:10 PM
File name
arnis-windows.exe
Size
39.32 MB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
Win32 EXE
SHA-256
2bbfa21cba3d69207a26a39350fd9fd74b8d4562f422fc4dd977d993d570e918
MD5
432ab0e0ba35ca6f5fd2dac727723c76
SHA-1
4ece579f88802d468ffe8dff1f588cf140b5f968
PE imphash
72111a4a13338dae0f61b5c2451f1c99
First seen (VT)
5/19/2026, 2:02:00 PM
Last analysis (VT)
5/19/2026, 2:02:00 PM
First scan (MalwareTips)
5/19/2026, 5:07:11 PM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
5/19/2026, 5:07:10 PM
Code signer
Arnisinvalid
Behavior tags
overlaypeexe64bitsinvalid-signaturesignedchecks-user-inputdetect-debug-environment
Community classification

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