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Threat LensFile scan report

Is Terraria.zip safe?

Verdict
Safe

Single low-trust engine flags a 13-year-old ZIP with no tier-1 support or malicious children.

Only MaxSecure (low_trust) reports a generic Trojan label; 72 other engines are silent. Sandbox shows no malicious verdict and no malicious dropped children or host contacts.

Open or extract with normal care

The evidence supports treating the file as safe; continue normal security practices.

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Saved file evidenceAntivirus consensus
1of 73 flagged
Flagged 1No detection 72
Digital specimenTerraria.zip3447603e2482bc73d4…15a3b91e01a953
Size24.9 MB
Code signingNot applicable
SandboxRuntime complete
First seen13y ago
Evidence2 priority signals
1 of 73 antivirus engines flagged the file, including MaxSecure.

Recommended next actions

01

Before opening or extracting

Open or extract it only when its sender or download source has been independently verified.

02

If you already opened or extracted it

Keep normal device protection enabled and stop if the file behaves unexpectedly.

Chapter 02

Intelligence

The saved assessment, checked against the scan evidence and recorded coverage.

MT AI Engine · Verdict analysis

The reasoning behind this verdict

This section explains the evidence supporting the verdict and keeps conflicting or missing signals visible.

82%Confidence
High
Analyst conclusion

Only MaxSecure (low_trust) reports a generic Trojan label; 72 other engines are silent. Sandbox shows no malicious verdict and no malicious dropped children or host contacts.

Recommended action

The evidence supports treating the file as safe; continue normal security practices.

Scan transparency

Coverage & freshness

4 of 5 complete

Complete means the check returned a usable result. It does not mean the file is safe.

  • Antivirus

    Complete

    1 of 73 engines flagged the file.

  • Sandbox

    Complete

    1 isolated runtime environment contributed observations.

  • Network

    Not run

    No contacted-host reputation check is recorded.

    No timestamp recorded

  • YARA

    Complete

    Rule evaluation completed with no recorded matches.

  • External intel

    Complete

    3 of 3 independent reference sources completed.

Chapter 03

Behavior

Plain-English impact first, then the observed runtime evidence.

Runtime flight recorder

Capture complete
  • 1isolated sandbox run
  • 4MITRE ATT&CK techniques
  • 4spawned processes
  • 0network contacts
  • 19filesystem & mutex artifacts
Recorded behavior

Attack story

Runtime observations grouped by analysis stage. Arrows organize the stages; they do not claim chronology or causality.

ObservedDerived

5 recorded facts from one runtime window. Every fact remains independently traceable in Analyst mode.

Chapter 04

Detection & Forensics

Consensus, attribution, signatures, code structure, prevalence, and identity.

Chapter 05

Safety & FAQ

Complete recovery guidance and answers for the next decision.

What to do now

This file appears low risk based on the evidence available now.

  1. Recovery step 01

    Open or extract it only when its sender or download source has been independently verified.

  2. Recovery step 02

    A clean result reduces known risk, but it cannot guarantee that every new or targeted threat has been detected.

  3. Recovery step 03

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

Safety FAQ

Direct answers grounded in the saved verdict and evidence in this report.

6 evidence-based answers
Is Terraria.zip safe?
Evidence-based answer
Terraria.zip appears safe. 1 of 73 antivirus engines flagged it; the 1 detection were treated as non-decisive after the wider evidence was weighed. Open or extract it only when its sender or download source has been independently verified.
What is Terraria.zip?
Evidence-based answer
Terraria.zip is a compressed archive, about 24.9 MB. Our analysis did not identify a verdict-driving threat signal. A file's name can be reused by different files, so we identify it by its cryptographic hash (below).
How many antivirus engines detected Terraria.zip?
Evidence-based answer
1 of 73 antivirus engines flagged Terraria.zip, 1 of them as outright malicious. The raw count alone does not establish safety or danger; we also weigh which engines flagged it and corroborating behavior, identity, reputation, and rule evidence.
What is the SHA-256 hash of Terraria.zip?
Evidence-based answer
The SHA-256 hash of Terraria.zip is 3447603e2482bc73d4f2d7e8d37a484f2a3482f00f8df04f1515a3b91e01a953, and its MD5 is 8bb5a68c0e113eb6aa524e62ded25bbc. 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.
Is it safe to open or extract Terraria.zip?
Evidence-based answer
Based on the recorded evidence, Terraria.zip has a low observed risk. 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, verify the source and the exact hash before overriding the warning.
How up to date is this analysis of Terraria.zip?
Evidence-based answer
This report reflects the scan run on September 6, 2026. Because a file's hash never changes, the identity of Terraria.zip 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.
Chapter 06

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