File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is CL [number] safe? Yes, no threats found.
The NVIDIA-signed DLL drew no flags from 75 engines, and its completed sandbox run produced no corroborated harmful activity or malicious artifacts.
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Strong evidence · A verified publisher signature, and no engine flags it.
Use the DLL if it came through an official NVIDIA installation or update channel and its signature remains valid. Keep security protection enabled and investigate if it appears in an unexpected directory or application bundle.
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Antivirus results
0 of 70 flagged
- Flagged 0
- No detection 70
- No result 5
- Code signing NVIDIA Corporation
- Test run Completed
- First seen 1mo ago
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Why we think so
3 points against it and 5 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
The DLL carries a verified NVIDIA Corporation signature, and none of the 70 antivirus engines that checked it flagged it.
None of the 70 antivirus engines that checked it flagged the DLL, including the major antivirus engines represented in the results. Its digital signature verifies to NVIDIA Corporation, which matches a curated trusted publisher. The completed sandbox run did not produce a malicious verdict, persistence indicators, injected processes, or dropped files. Although the run mapped T1562.001, that isolated mapping is outweighed by the absence of corresponding artifacts and by nine technique common in legitimate software mappings. The antivirus analysis also found no packer or high-entropy code, while researcher intelligence produced no malware-specific rule matches. Host-reputation coverage was not completed, so no claim is made that every possible network destination was checked.
What We Detected
None of the 70 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this 64-bit Windows DLL. The file has a verified digital signature from NVIDIA Corporation, and the signer matches a curated trusted publisher. Static PE analysis found no identified packer, no likely packing, and no high-entropy code.
Threat Behavior
One completed sandbox run returned a clean result. It observed DLL loading through rundll32 and Windows error-reporting activity, but no process injection, persistence indicators, registry changes, or files it created. T1562.001 was mapped once; however, no engine detection, malware-specific YARA rule, or harmful runtime artifact corroborated defense impairment. The sole recorded IP contact was classified as analysis-environment background traffic, and no complete host-reputation cross-check is available.
What To Do Now
Confirm that the file came from an official NVIDIA installation or update location before deploying it. Keep security software enabled and rescan if the signature becomes invalid, the file appears outside expected NVIDIA paths, or new detections emerge.
Where this verdict could be wrong3 caveats
- The sandbox mapped T1562.001, a defense-impairment technique, although no corresponding malicious outcome or artifact was observed.
- No complete contacted-host reputation result is available; the only recorded IP was identified as sandbox background traffic rather than sample activity.
- No historical signer statistics or similar-hash verdicts are available to provide additional longitudinal corroboration.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- None of the 70 antivirus engines that checked it flagged the file.
- The digital signature verifies to NVIDIA Corporation, a trusted publisher.
- The completed sandbox run found no persistence, process injection, or files it created.
- The antivirus analysis found no packing or high-entropy code.
- Research intelligence returned no malware-specific rule matches.
- The sandbox mapped one defense-impairment technique, but no related harmful artifact was observed.
- The generic filename does not identify the DLL's product role or expected installation path.
- A complete reputation check of contacted hosts was not available.
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 not needed or not applicable. See every source
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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- 10sandbox rule tags
- 8spawned processes
- 0network contacts
- 7filesystem & mutex artifacts
Includes the sandbox verdicts, 10 mapped techniques and every process, file, registry and network entry.
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Technical details
None of the 70 antivirus engines that checked it flag it; signed by NVIDIA Corporation.
Sources checked
Every check behind this verdict
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 not needed or not applicable. Complete means the check returned a usable result; it does not mean the file is safe.
File fingerprint
- Last analyzed
- Oct 11, 2026, 4:42 PM UTC
- SHA-256
3975567b8943c53acce397f2b72380092f84f162d00b0d2c7d08a1025c563983- SHA-1
61349e36573b0dbb95287781bf229524624169ad- MD5
a0dac8ab01c00f56a1de1bc383f4147c
About this file
CL [number] is a Win32 DLL file of 59.0 MB.
- Type and size
- Win32 DLL · 59.0 MB
- Signer
- NVIDIA CorporationValid code signature.
- First seen
- Sep 8, 2026On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 382 distinct sources
- Packer
- None detected
- Entropy
- 5.91 of 8
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