Is ds4windows-3.3.4.zip safe?
Only 2 of 74 engines flagged this archive, both low-trust, while tier-1 engines and available external intelligence provided no malware corroboration.
The two detections come exclusively from low-trust engines and use generic Trojan labels; all 17 reporting tier-1 engines were silent. Runtime evidence includes process-injection and defense-impairment mappings plus direct-IP traffic, so use only a trusted release source and keep endpoint protection enabled.
305e1064509cf63a9b…43657a2a9bfcdeRecommended next actions
Before opening or extracting
Open or extract it only when its sender or download source has been independently verified.
If you already opened or extracted it
Keep normal device protection enabled and stop if the file behaves unexpectedly.
Intelligence
The saved assessment, checked against the scan evidence and recorded coverage.
The reasoning behind this verdict
This section explains the evidence supporting the verdict and keeps conflicting or missing signals visible.
The two detections come exclusively from low-trust engines and use generic Trojan labels; all 17 reporting tier-1 engines were silent. Runtime evidence includes process-injection and defense-impairment mappings plus direct-IP traffic, so use only a trusted release source and keep endpoint protection enabled.
Only 2 of 74 engines detected the archive, and both detections came from low-trust engines using generic labels. No tier-1 engine identified malware or agreed on a family, making a false positive substantially more likely. One completed sandbox run mapped activity to T1055 and T1562.001, but it did not issue a malicious sandbox conclusion. Eleven direct IP contacts were recorded, although no complete reputation result is available because the contacted-host check was not saved. External intelligence produced no corroborating hits, and none of the ten inspected children was identified as malicious, though their individual verdicts remain unknown.
What We Detected
MaxSecure and VBA32 flagged the archive, producing 2 detections among 74 engines. Both are low-trust results with generic Trojan or MSIL wording; tier1Malicious=0, and all 17 reporting tier-1 engines returned no detection.
Threat Behavior
One sandbox run mapped activity to T1055 process injection and T1562.001 defense impairment. It also recorded 11 direct IP contacts, but contactedHosts=null means no complete reputation assessment is available for those destinations. The sandbox did not issue a malicious conclusion, and droppedChildren.hasMaliciousChild=false across 10 inspected children, although each child's individual verdict remains unknown.
What To Do Now
Obtain the archive from the project's official release channel and compare its SHA-256 value before opening it. Keep antivirus and endpoint protection enabled, and avoid the file if its source or hash cannot be verified.
Where this verdict could be wrong3 caveats
- Runtime evidence mapped activity to T1055 process injection and T1562.001 defense impairment, which warrants caution despite the weak engine detections.
- The sample contacted 11 direct IP addresses, and contactedHosts=null means those destinations were not completely reputation-checked.
- All 10 dropped children have unknown individual verdicts; hasMaliciousChild=false does not establish that each child is benign.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- Only 2/74 engines detected the archive
- engines.tier1Malicious=0 across 17 tier-1 engines
- engines.onlyLowTrustFlagging=true
- behaviour.hasMaliciousSandboxVerdict=false
- CIRCL, MalwareBazaar, and YARAify produced no corroborating hit
- Runtime mapping to T1055 process injection
- Runtime mapping to T1562.001 defense impairment
- Eleven direct IP contacts without a completed host-reputation check
- Ten extracted children have unknown individual verdicts
Use the archive only if its SHA-256 matches a copy obtained from the project's official release channel. Keep endpoint protection enabled and quarantine it if unexpected behavior appears.
Coverage & freshness
Complete means the check returned a usable result. It does not mean the file is safe.
Antivirus
Complete2 of 74 engines flagged the file.
Sandbox
Complete1 isolated runtime environment contributed observations.
Network
Partial11 runtime contacts were observed without a completed reputation cross-check.
YARA
Complete2 signature or behavior rules matched.
External intel
Complete3 of 3 independent reference sources completed.
Behavior
Plain-English impact first, then the observed runtime evidence.
Runtime flight recorder
Capture complete- 1isolated sandbox run
- 16MITRE ATT&CK techniques
- 15spawned processes
- 11network contacts
- 16filesystem & mutex artifacts
Attack story
Runtime observations grouped by analysis stage. Arrows organize the stages; they do not claim chronology or causality.
Input file
The submitted object
- FileObserved
ds4windows-3.3.4.zip
305e1064509cf63a9bbb0215c2677e14b8835dc48c33cbbfc643657a2a9bfcde
01Uploaded file
Processes
Runtime execution
- ProcessObserved
Observed process
"C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exe" "C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\XAMLMarkupExtensions.dll",#1
02Isolated runtime analysis - ProcessObserved
Observed process
"C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exe" "C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\ar/DS4Windows.resources.dll",#1
03Isolated runtime analysis - +1 more recorded observation in Analyst mode
Files
Created or changed
- Written fileObserved
0a524da6-653c-40eb-8508-4af8c25e7643
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\edge_BITS_4744_1458732695\0a524da6-653c-40eb-8508-4af8c25e7643
04Isolated runtime analysis - Written fileObserved
fdb8099d-2f6c-4383-8278-f7bc83f63cf3
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\edge_BITS_4744_737597002\fdb8099d-2f6c-4383-8278-f7bc83f63cf3
05Isolated runtime analysis - +1 more recorded observation in Analyst mode
Network
Hosts contacted
- Contacted hostObserved
23.10.195.101
Contact observed during runtime.
06Isolated runtime analysis - Contacted hostObserved
13.107.6.158
Contact observed during runtime.
07Isolated runtime analysis - +1 more recorded observation in Analyst mode
7 recorded facts from one runtime window. Every fact remains independently traceable in Analyst mode.
What this file did when executed
This file was detonated in 1 sandbox and its runtime behaviour was observed.
Adversary techniques mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- 23.10.195.101
- 13.107.6.158
- 23.48.99.19
- 140.82.113.3
- 185.199.108.154
- 185.199.109.133
- 185.199.108.133
- 140.82.113.22
- 140.82.114.6
- 185.199.111.133
- C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\edge_BITS_4744_1458732695\0a524da6-653c-40eb-8508-4af8c25e7643
- C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\edge_BITS_4744_737597002\fdb8099d-2f6c-4383-8278-f7bc83f63cf3
- C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\edge_BITS_4744_696659859\8456af18-d02e-4d2d-a6dc-211817a8bed3
- C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\edge_BITS_4744_1221793896\cea6d764-36bf-4144-a357-ec91013ddbf5
- C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\nbyv3v4z.3jq
- DBWinMutex
Files this sample writes at runtime
This file drops 10 children at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache.
- d5bf8163335f764f2548…712ebdNever scannednever seen before
- c4a060e543a9e40ed842…2f67abNever scannednever seen before
- 4bb25b212e8deadda89e…d63f9bNever scannednever seen before
- bbad915206f225ca8ec3…1040eaNever scannednever seen before
- c263baeabbfa37e1cdde…754ba2Never scannednever seen before
- fc1e7e7412183b05dd12…156acdNever scannednever seen before
- e7e53e7959e3815ad03c…63857dNever scannednever seen before
- 26b01195d9c6a4dec6af…d731d8Never scannednever seen before
- ce46b4d58059af3ca5f3…ebbdbdNever scannednever seen before
- 76ba09fba83201d69072…ae9ba5Never scannednever seen before
Detection & Forensics
Consensus, attribution, signatures, code structure, prevalence, and identity.
Evidence integrity
Chain of custody for the facts preserved in this report.
- 2rule hits recorded
- 2 / 74engines flagged
- 55sources in submission history
Why these facts are shown
Each statement identifies whether it was directly recorded or derived from saved scan facts.
- 01
1 high-confidence signature or behavior rule matched this file.
Verdict inputView chapterProvenanceDerivedSourceSignature and behavior rulesObserved at - 02
2 of 74 antivirus engines flagged the file, including MaxSecure and VBA32.
Verdict inputView chapterProvenanceObservedSourceAntivirus analysisObserved at - 03
The hash has been submitted 60 times from 55 sources.
ProvenanceDerivedSourceSaved report factsObserved at - 04
Scanned file: ds4windows-3.3.4.zip — 305e1064509cf63a9bbb0215c2677e14b8835dc48c33cbbfc643657a2a9bfcde
ProvenanceObservedSourceUploaded fileObserved at - 05
Observed process — "C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exe" "C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\XAMLMarkupExtensions.dll",#1
ProvenanceObservedSourceIsolated runtime analysisObserved at - 06
Observed process — "C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exe" "C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\ar/DS4Windows.resources.dll",#1
ProvenanceObservedSourceIsolated runtime analysisObserved at - 07
File written: 0a524da6-653c-40eb-8508-4af8c25e7643 — C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\edge_BITS_4744_1458732695\0a524da6-653c-40eb-8508-4af8c25e7643
ProvenanceObservedSourceIsolated runtime analysisObserved at - 08
File written: fdb8099d-2f6c-4383-8278-f7bc83f63cf3 — C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\edge_BITS_4744_737597002\fdb8099d-2f6c-4383-8278-f7bc83f63cf3
ProvenanceObservedSourceIsolated runtime analysisObserved at - 09
Contacted host: 23.10.195.101 — Contact observed during runtime.
ProvenanceObservedSourceIsolated runtime analysisObserved at - 10
Contacted host: 13.107.6.158 — Contact observed during runtime.
ProvenanceObservedSourceIsolated runtime analysisObserved at
Detection sources at a glance
The available sources did not agree on a named threat category.
MalwareBazaar, YARAify, and CIRCL hashlookup completed and returned no entries for this hash.
Signatures and behavior heuristics
A community signature or high-severity behavioral heuristic matched. Signatures identify known patterns; heuristics are strong leads but are not proof on their own.
The saved runtime evidence maps this activity to MITRE T1055 (Process Injection). The mapping supports possible process injection, but it does not prove the exact injection method or the operator's intent.
Evidence"C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exe" "C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\XAMLMarkupExtensions.dll",#1The sample contacted an external IP address directly and no application domain was recorded. Direct-IP traffic also occurs in legitimate installers and infrastructure, so this is supporting context only and requires corroboration from host reputation and other runtime evidence.
Evidence23.10.195.101 · 13.107.6.158 · 23.48.99.19
2 of 74 engines flagged this file
View all 74 engine results
PE structure
Not applicablePE structure analysis applies to Windows executable formats, not this file type.
How widely this file has been seen
Moderate prevalence — neither rare nor common. No strong prior applies.
Fingerprint and provenance
- File name
- ds4windows-3.3.4.zip
- Format
- ZIP
- Code signing
- Not applicable to this file type
- Size
- 3.9 MB
- Last analyzed
- Sep 23, 2026, 4:07 PM UTC
305e1064509cf63a9bbb0215c2677e14b8835dc48c33cbbfc643657a2a9bfcdeSafety & FAQ
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What to do now
This file appears low risk based on the evidence available now.
- Recovery step 01
Open or extract it only when its sender or download source has been independently verified.
- Recovery step 02
A clean result reduces known risk, but it cannot guarantee that every new or targeted threat has been detected.
- Recovery step 03
Keep your antivirus and Windows updates switched on so you stay protected.
Safety FAQ
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