Safe
Clean ZIP archive with zero engine detections and no behavioural or external-intel signals.
2f4e1e6dd47e218bb2…bc183faad7The 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.
Zero malicious detections from any engine tier combined with the absence of signing, sandbox data, and external intelligence indicate the archive is benign. Medium prevalence across six submitters shows the file is not rare-new, reducing the chance of an undetected threat. The neutral filename and lack of adversarial flags further support a clean classification.
Each signal cites a concrete token from the evidence the arbiter saw — engine name, MITRE technique, signer string, or an exact count.
engines.malicious=0 and engines.tier1Malicious=0 across 64 reporting engines
file.fileType=ZIP with prevalence.classification=medium (6 submitters)
signing.signed=false and externalIntel.yaraify.ruleCount=0
similarHashes.length=0 and triggeredHeuristics.length=0
- Zero detections from 64 reporting engines
- Medium prevalence across six independent submitters
- No adversarial filename or signer injection detected
Open the ZIP normally; no further action required unless the extracted contents raise separate concerns.
What to do now
This file looks safe based on everything we checked.
This file is safe to use.
Good habit: only download files from the official website or an app store.
Keep your antivirus and Windows updates switched on so you stay protected.
0 detections across 74 engines
How widely this file has been seen
Moderate prevalence — neither rare nor common. No strong prior applies.
Forensic fingerprint
- File name
- how-to.skill
- Size
- 3.6 KB
- MIME type
- (unknown)
- Detected type
- ZIP
- SHA-256
- 2f4e1e6dd47e218bb2145fd5b83ffe71b01eb2edc8023e038ad3a6bc183faad7
- MD5
- f4a70e9c986410cbc28d56c22eeb8853
- SHA-1
- 391d0f6f40411fa247c48de245dbe9ca46ee51d6
- First seen (VT)
- 6/14/2026, 5:33:46 PM UTC
- Last analysis (VT)
- 6/21/2026, 8:53:24 PM UTC
- First scan (MalwareTips)
- 7/17/2026, 1:59:46 AM UTC
- Last scan (MalwareTips)
- 7/17/2026, 1:59:46 AM UTC
Safety FAQ
Common questions about how-to.skill, answered from the scan data above.
Before using the site
- how-to.skill appears safe. 74 of 74 antivirus engines report it clean. As a habit, only open files you downloaded from the official source, since attackers sometimes distribute trojanised copies of legitimate software under the same name.
- how-to.skill is a file, about 4 KB. 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).
- The SHA-256 hash of how-to.skill is 2f4e1e6dd47e218bb2145fd5b83ffe71b01eb2edc8023e038ad3a6bc183faad7, and its MD5 is f4a70e9c986410cbc28d56c22eeb8853. 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 — how-to.skill 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 16, 2026. Because a file's hash never changes, the identity of how-to.skill 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.
Technical questions
- None — all 74 antivirus engines we queried report how-to.skill as clean. That's reassuring, though brand-new malware can briefly evade detection before vendors add signatures, so we also weigh the file's behaviour and reputation.
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