File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is Blue
No antivirus engine detected malware, while the verified Now.gg signature, broad prevalence, and matching prior installer outweigh uncorroborated behavioral rule-based alerts.
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Strong evidence · A verified publisher signature, and no engine flags it.
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Antivirus results
0 of 69 flagged
- Flagged 0
- No detection 69
- No result 6
- Code signing Now.gg, INC
- Test run Completed
- First seen 1mo ago
Chapter 02
Why we think so
2 points against it and 5 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
All 69 antivirus engines that checked it returned no malware or suspicious detection, including the reporting major antivirus engines.
The strongest evidence is the complete absence of detections across 75 antivirus engines, with no major antivirus engines flagging the sample. Its signature verifies as Now.gg, no brand conflict was detected, and the file has appeared through 444 distinct sources. A prior installer sharing both the import-table fingerprint and signer received a clean assessment, adding limited but relevant historical support. Those mappings are not corroborated by engine detections, malicious child verdicts, or external intelligence, while the contacted-host reputation check did not cover every observed contact.
What We Detected
The executable carries a verified Now.gg signature, has no detected brand mismatch, and has been submitted 484 times by 444 distinct sources. One prior BlueStacks installer with the same import-table fingerprint and matching signer also received a clean assessment.
Threat Behavior
One completed sandbox run did not issue a malicious verdict. However, behavioral rules mapped activity to T1055 process injection and raised a possible the Windows password store-access concern, alongside direct-IP traffic. These alerts are not corroborated by antivirus detections or external-intelligence hits. Ten files it created were inspected without a malicious child verdict, but all ten remain unclassified, and host-reputation coverage did not include every observed connection.
What To Do Now
Use the installer only if it came from the official BlueStacks or Now.gg distribution channel, and verify that Windows still reports the signer as Now.gg before execution. Keep security software enabled and avoid running copies obtained through advertisements, mirrors, or unsolicited links.
Where this verdict could be wrong4 caveats
- triggeredHeuristics includes one of our behaviour rules for and one of our behaviour rules based on the Windows password store reference; these findings warrant caution despite lacking engine or sandbox-verdict corroboration.
- The cross-check of 1 host does not cover every distinct IP and URL in the sandbox's contacted-IP list and the sandbox's contacted-URL list, so no complete host-reputation result is available.
- A signer history of 1 earlier file provides only a minimal history for 'Now.gg'.
- droppedChildren inspected 10 hashes, but a count of 10 dropped files without a saved verdict means their absence of a malicious verdict is not equivalent to confirmed benign status.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- 0/69 antivirus engines reported malware or suspicious content.
- The code signature is valid for 'Now.gg'.
- No brand mismatch was detected.
- 484 submissions from 444 distinct sources indicate broad distribution.
- One signer-matched import-table fingerprint precedent was previously assessed clean.
- Host-reputation inspection covered only 1 host despite multiple observed contacts.
- The verified Now.gg signer has only 1 historical sample in the signer-history record.
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 partial. See every source
Chapter 03
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- 27sandbox rule tags
- 6spawned processes
- 4network contacts
- 33filesystem & mutex artifacts
What this file did when executed
This file was run in a sandbox and its runtime behaviour was observed.
Techniques observed in the sandbox
27MITRE ATT&CK techniques the sandbox mapped. Highlighted ones are rare in normal software; the others are common in legitimate programs too.
- T1027· Obfuscated code
- T1033· Reads user info
- T1055· Process injection
- T1057· Lists programs
- T1059· Runs commands
- T1070· Covers its tracks
- T1071· Application protocol
- T1074
- T1082· System recon
- T1083· Scans your files
- T1105· Network file transfer
- T1106
- T1112
- T1129· Loads modules
- T1222
- T1485
- T1486· File encryption
- T1497· Sandbox evasion
- T1497.001· Sandbox evasion
- T1543· Service install
- T1547· Auto-start
- T1562· Disables security
- T1562.001· Disables security
- T1564.003· Hides artifacts
- T1568
- T1573
- T1574· Execution hijack
Observed activity
Processes started
6Programs the file ran, with their command lines.
8e3e956fbfd0e3_MzsxNQ___VHJhaWxzIG9mIENvbGQgU3RlZWw6Tlc_.exe"C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\8e3e956fbfd0e3_MzsxNQ___VHJhaWxzIG9mIENvbGQgU3RlZWw6Tlc_.exe"BlueStacksInstaller.exe"C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\BlueStacksInstaller.exe"BlueStacksInstaller.exeC:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zSC61F42E3\BlueStacksInstaller.exeHD-CheckCpu.exeC:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zSC61F42E3\HD-CheckCpu.exe --cmd checkHypervEnabled8e3e956fbfd0e3_MzsxNQ==_VHJhaWxzIG9mIENvbGQgU3RlZWw6Tlc=.exe"C:\Users\user\Desktop\8e3e956fbfd0e3_MzsxNQ==_VHJhaWxzIG9mIENvbGQgU3RlZWw6Tlc=.exe"BlueStacksInstaller.exe"C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS0BB905F2\BlueStacksInstaller.exe"
Network contacts
44 hosts, listed as 3 addresses, 1 link. Links show the host and path only.
- IP address
34.160.86.181 - IP address
2.18.67.7 - IP address
23.11.32.159 - URL
https://cloud.bluestacks.com/api/getcountryforip
Files
30Files the file created, changed or deleted.
- Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Locales - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets\backicon.png - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets\change.png - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets\change_click.png - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets\change_hover.png
Show all 30 entries for files
- Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets\checked_gray.png - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets\checked_gray_hover.png - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets\close_red.png - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets\close_red_click.png - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets\close_red_hover.png - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets\custom.png - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets\custom_click.png - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets\custom_hover.png - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets\discord_icon.png - Deleted
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets\backicon.png - Deleted
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets\change.png - Deleted
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets\change_click.png - Deleted
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets\change_hover.png - Deleted
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets\checked_gray.png - Deleted
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets\checked_gray_hover.png - Deleted
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets\close_red.png - Deleted
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets\close_red_click.png - Deleted
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets\close_red_hover.png - Deleted
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets\custom.png - Deleted
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets\custom_click.png - Deleted
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets\custom_hover.png - Deleted
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets\discord_icon.png - Deleted
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets\discord_icon_click.png - Deleted
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS464E8990\Assets\discord_icon_hover.png
Mutexes
3Named locks a program uses so only one copy runs; malware families often reuse them.
Local\WERReportingForProcess4700Global\8e1c7f7f-821b-4cb0-9a90-fd935f7298a5Global\BlueStacks_MicroInstaller_Locknxt
Sandbox background — not the file
10The analysis machine's own processes and connections, recorded in every run.
- VM process
WerFault.exeC:\Windows\system32\WerFault.exe -u -p 4700 -s 1880 - VM process
services.exeC:\Windows\system32\services.exe - VM process
svchost.exeC:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k NetworkService -p - VM process
svchost.exeC:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k UnistackSvcGroup - VM process
svchost.exeC:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k LocalSystemNetworkRestricted -p -s StorSvc - VM process
lsass.exeC:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe
Show all 10 entries for sandbox background — not the file
- VM process
svchost.exeC:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k LocalSystemNetworkRestricted -p -s WdiSystemHost - VM process
svchost.exeC:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k LocalService -s W32Time - VM host
8.8.8.8 - VM host
199.232.210.172
Files this sample writes at runtime
This file drops 10 children at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache. 10 have no saved verdict and were not checked; that is missing coverage, not a finding.
- f8948c19a6abef830414…42c652Not checkedno saved verdict
- e324d895c51e5df20f4d…8a9a7fNot checkedno saved verdict
- fa64884054171515e97b…9cb1c1Not checkedno saved verdict
- 8e5847487da148ebb3ea…4e6dc1Not checkedno saved verdict
- d7c79677d2ef897fa0ad…165c20Not checkedno saved verdict
- d0b6d143642d356b40c4…b09bfbNot checkedno saved verdict
- d5a7e6fc5e92e0b29a4f…2ce0cdNot checkedno saved verdict
- 7c625ae4668cc03e37e4…8acdd0Not checkedno saved verdict
- fbece8bb5f4dfa55dcfb…e68f7bNot checkedno saved verdict
- 1318e0f34a551edae1e8…2d5b90Not checkedno saved verdict
Chapter 04
Technical details
None of the 69 antivirus engines that checked it flag it; signed by Now.gg, INC.
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
- Oct 17, 2026, 1:34 PM UTC
- SHA-256
30ebf5431e598f1fe75afc196bf6d4a9e2f88b2d5dd82cb0c1ff8dc0aa555d5e- SHA-1
6a540f2e05eb00cd05b07a9edeeb083d528888ce- MD5
c084067d32dfb27091b57fcb9d2c06ea
About this file
BlueStacksInstaller.exe is a Win32 EXE file of 953.9 kB.
- Type and size
- Win32 EXE · 953.9 kB
- Signer
- Now.gg, INCValid code signature.
- First seen
- Sep 11, 2026On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 444 distinct sources
- Packer
- None detected
- Entropy
- 8.00 of 8
First scanned Updated
Antivirus consensus
0 of 69 engines flagged this file
6 of the 75 engines returned no result for this file (file type not supported, or the scan did not finish), so they did not check it.
- Tier-117 engines0flagged
- Tier-235 engines0flagged
- Low-trust17 engines0flagged
View all 75 engine results
- AcronisClean
- AhnLab-V3Clean
- AlibabaClean
- alibabacloudClean
- ALYacClean
- Antiy-AVLClean
- APEXClean
- ArcabitClean
- AvastClean
- Avast-MobileNo result
- AVGClean
- AviraClean
- BitDefenderClean
- BitDefenderFalxNo result
- BkavClean
- CAT-QuickHealClean
- ClamAVClean
- CMCClean
- CrowdStrikeClean
- CTXClean
- CylanceClean
- CynetClean
- DeepInstinctClean
- DrWebClean
- ElasticClean
- EmsisoftClean
- ESET-NOD32Clean
- F-SecureClean
- FortinetClean
- GDataClean
- GoogleNo result
- GridinsoftClean
- huorongClean
- IkarusNo result
- JiangminClean
- K7AntiVirusClean
- K7GWClean
- KasperskyClean
- KingsoftClean
- LionicClean
- MalwarebytesClean
- MaxSecureClean
- McAfeeDClean
- MicrosoftClean
- MicroWorld-eScanClean
- NANO-AntivirusClean
- PaloaltoClean
- PandaClean
- RisingClean
- SangforClean
- SentinelOneClean
- SkyhighClean
- SophosClean
- SUPERAntiSpywareClean
- SymantecClean
- SymantecMobileInsightNo result
- TACHYONClean
- tehtrisClean
- TencentClean
- TrapmineClean
- TrellixENSClean
- TrendMicroClean
- TrendMicro-HouseCallClean
- TrustlookNo result
- VaristClean
- VBA32Clean
- VIPREClean
- VirITClean
- ViRobotClean
- WebrootClean
- XcitiumClean
- YandexClean
- ZillyaClean
- ZoneAlarmClean
- ZonerClean
Signatures and behavior heuristics
Low-severity pattern matches — worth noting but not on their own cause for alarm.
VirusTotal's sandbox summary maps this run to MITRE T1055 (Process Injection), but no injected process of the sample's own was recorded (the analysis VM's own WMI adapter, crash handlers and Chrome updater are not counted). VirusTotal maps T1055 on about half of all files no engine flags, so the mapping alone is not evidence of injection.
EvidenceT1055 (sandbox MITRE mapping)
Section entropy & packers
No high-entropy executable section or known packer signature was detected. Data and resource sections can still have high entropy without indicating packed code.
How widely this file has been seen
Widely uploaded, but first seen within the last six months. No strong prior applies.
Chapter 05
Questions & answers
Short answers to the 7 questions people ask most about this file.
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