File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Safe

Unsigned NSIS installer with 7-year history, zero tier-1 detections, high prevalence (17k+ submissions), and no malicious runtime evidence.

Trust score88High trust
MT AI confidence · 82%
jarfix.exe
71.8 KB
3a00c5b808954e9dca787f5eaae2
Antivirus engines
0 of 74 flagged
Code signing
Unsigned
Age
First seen 7y ago
MT AI Engine · our arbiter

The verdict, reasoned out.

Not a rules engine. The MT AI Engine reads every signal we collected, weighs them against history, and commits to an answer.

82%Confidence
High
Reasoning

The file exhibits a clean engine profile: zero malicious detections across 70 reporting engines, including all major tier-1 vendors (Kaspersky, BitDefender, ESET, Fortinet, Avast, etc.). Its prevalence is exceptionally high (common_old classification, 17,338 submissions over 2,709 days), which is inconsistent with novel or targeted malware. The triggered heuristics (process injection and direct-IP C2) are evidence signals typical of NSIS-packaged installers and sandbox environments; they lack corroborating malicious runtime verdicts, malicious child processes, or external-intelligence consensus. Community YARA annotations reference APT families but carry zero votes and 0/73 AV detection ratio, indicating rule-matching noise. The file is unsigned but shows no brand mismatch or adversarial input flags.

Key signals · 5

Each signal cites a concrete token from the evidence the arbiter saw — engine name, MITRE technique, signer string, or an exact count.

  1. engines: 0/70 malicious; tier1Malicious=0 across Avast, BitDefender, Kaspersky, ESET, Fortinet, Ikarus, Emsisoft, GData, DrWeb, F-Secure

  2. prevalence: common_old, 3,695 submitters, 17,338 submissions since 2019-01-27 (2,709 days old)

  3. behaviour: 4 offensive MITRE techniques but no malicious sandbox verdict, no malicious contacted hosts, 10/10 dropped children unknown/safe

  4. triggered heuristics: ProcessInjection + DirectIpC2 fired, but contacted IPs include private-range sandbox addresses (192.168.x.x); no external-intel corroboration (yaraify.ruleCount=0, no MalwareBazaar hit)

  5. file metadata: unsigned NSIS-packaged EXE, filename 'jarfix.exe' consistent with legitimate Java utility, no brand mismatch, no adversarial input flags

Points in its favour
  • Zero malicious detections across 70 antivirus engines, including all tier-1 vendors
  • Exceptional prevalence: 17,338 submissions from 3,695 sources over 2,709 days
  • No malicious sandbox verdict despite sandbox analysis
  • All 10 dropped child processes returned unknown or safe verdicts
  • No external-intelligence corroboration (zero YARA hits, no MalwareBazaar family)
Points against
  • Unsigned executable (no Authenticode signature)
  • Triggered heuristic: process injection (T1055) detected
  • Triggered heuristic: direct-IP contact without DNS resolution
  • NSIS installer framework (common target for heuristic false positives)
What to do

This file is safe to use. The triggered heuristics reflect legitimate NSIS installer behaviour and sandbox artefacts, not malware indicators. If you encounter warnings from individual antivirus engines, they likely represent false positives; the consensus of 17 tier-1 vendors and 7+ years of prevalence data support a benign classification.

Runtime behaviour

What this file did when executed

This file was detonated in 1 sandbox and its runtime behaviour was observed.

MITRE ATT&CK
28

Adversary techniques mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

T1010T1012T1016T1018T1027T1036T1055T1056T1059T1071T1082T1083T1095T1112T1115T1125T1129T1222T1497T1518.001T1529T1543.003T1547.001T1547.008+4 more
Spawned processes
15
$(unnamed)
"C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\file.exe"
$(unnamed)
%SAMPLEPATH%\3a00c5b808954e9dca76418506eacec9cb1cb0fd844318a896ebae787f5eaae2.exe
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\System32\wuapihost.exe
$(unnamed)
%SAMPLEPATH%\file.exe
$(unnamed)
%SAMPLEPATH%\jarfix.exe
$(unnamed)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google3172_1604629535\bin\updater.exe
$(unnamed)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google3320_511591850\bin\updater.exe
$(unnamed)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google2640_2141157483\bin\updater.exe
+7 more processes captured.
Network activity
20
IP addresses20
  • 23.216.147.64
  • a83f:8110:0:0:100:0:1800:0
  • 192.168.0.9
  • a83f:8110:0:0:1400:1400:2800:3800
  • a83f:8110:517c:adff:527d:aeff:507e:aeff
  • a83f:8110:584a:b5b1:17cb:1ec8:0:0
  • a83f:8110:0:6:4b95:400:4e00:6100
  • 192.168.0.69
  • 192.168.0.99
  • a83f:8110:0:0:10:0:0:0
+10 more
Filesystem & mutexes
40
Files written15
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\nsxC4B8.tmp\System.dll
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\nsxC4B8.tmp\UserInfo.dll
  • C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp\nss3.tmp\System.dll
  • C:\WINDOWS\wininit.ini
  • C:\DOCUME~1\<USER>~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\nsv4.tmp\System.dll
+10 more
Files deleted15
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\nsxC4B8.tmp\System.dll
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\nsxC4B8.tmp\UserInfo.dll
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\nsxC4B8.tmp\
  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WERFF9D.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER412.tmp.csv
+10 more
Mutexes created10
  • jarfix
  • oleacc-msaa-loaded
  • CTF.LBES.MutexDefaultS-1-5-21-1482476501-1645522239-1417001333-500
  • CTF.Compart.MutexDefaultS-1-5-21-1482476501-1645522239-1417001333-500
  • CTF.Asm.MutexDefaultS-1-5-21-1482476501-1645522239-1417001333-500
+5 more
Dropped payload

Files this sample writes at runtime

This file drops 10 children at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache.

10 unseen
  • 6707e9e88dec460c2cf4e711a3Never scanned
    never seen before
  • bb6df93369b498eaa638f5e0f1Never scanned
    never seen before
  • bb5a1d709ddba97bb438d77afaNever scanned
    never seen before
  • b322c48534c6fd3cc832168519Never scanned
    never seen before
  • cf7023ac8b813f1d62e3db0aa1Never scanned
    never seen before
  • f29e86626b1ae9f7b70ef864feNever scanned
    never seen before
  • c0d6974c960e74660b2855c3deNever scanned
    never seen before
  • ec5526b24e9bd32e2d039e6167Never scanned
    never seen before
  • 5a08cd9ba3d16f45368f77526aNever scanned
    never seen before
  • accf036232d2570796bff36af8Never scanned
    never seen before
No researcher-database hits
External threat-intel sources were not collected for this scan.
Signature matches

YARA + heuristic rules that fired

A researcher-curated or high-severity heuristic rule matched this sample. These rules target specific malware families and are near-definitive.

2 synthesis
MITRE ATT&CK profile
Defense evasion× 1C2× 1
MalwareTips synthesis rules
Our heuristics on VT data + sandbox behaviour
  • ProcessInjectionhigh

    MITRE T1055 (Process Injection) observed — CreateRemoteThread / APC / reflective-DLL injection. The payload is being smuggled into a legitimate process to bypass AV hooks.

    Evidence
    "C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\file.exe"
  • DirectIpC2medium

    Sample contacted 13 external IP address(es) and zero domains. Benign software virtually always uses DNS; no-DNS direct-IP C2 is a strong malware indicator because it bypasses reputation systems and dodges domain-based blocklists.

    Evidence
    23.216.147.64 · a83f:8110:0:0:100:0:1800:0 · a83f:8110:0:0:1400:1400:2800:3800
Antivirus engine breakdown

0 detections across 74 engines

0 malicious0 suspicious74 clean
Tier-117 engines
0flag
Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)
Tier-237 engines
0flag
Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates
Low-trust20 engines
0flag
Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)
All 74 engines report this file as clean.
Hash 3a00c5b80895… cross-referenced against 74 AV engines via our AV network.
PE forensics

Section entropy & packers

Section-level entropy and packer detection from the PE header. Nothing suspicious here — entropy is within the normal range for unpacked code.

ent 7.99Unpacked
Section entropy5 sections
.text
6.44
.rdata
5.06
.data
4.19
.ndata
0.00
.rsrc
4.18
0.0Packed threshold 7.28.0
Prevalence

How often this file shows up in the wild

Widely seen in the wild for a long time. High prior this is legitimate; isolated detections on common-old files are usually false positives.

Common & old
Unique uploaders
3,695
Hundreds of people have uploaded this — common.
Total submissions
17,338
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen by VT
7y ago
Jan 27, 2019
Prevalence quadrant
Rare · New
Targeted malware lives here
Common · New
Just-released software
Rare · Old
Niche or internal tooling
here
Common · Old
Trusted legitimate binaries
File identity

Forensic fingerprint

File biography
First seen (VT)
1/27/2019, 3:21:17 AM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
6/22/2026, 2:10:20 AM
Scanned here
6/28/2026, 12:00:40 AM
File name
jarfix.exe
Size
71.8 KB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
Win32 EXE
SHA-256
3a00c5b808954e9dca76418506eacec9cb1cb0fd844318a896ebae787f5eaae2
MD5
dd9f1cadb75365e4646a814e8d022010
SHA-1
a963f573f3fe0422b867dabad52bd7d345ff4d49
PE imphash
b76363e9cb88bf9390860da8e50999d2
First seen (VT)
1/27/2019, 3:21:17 AM
Last analysis (VT)
6/22/2026, 2:10:20 AM
First scan (MalwareTips)
6/28/2026, 12:00:40 AM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
6/28/2026, 12:00:40 AM
Community reputation
+18trusted
Behavior tags
checks-user-inputpeexeoverlaynsis
Community classification

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