File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is setup.
One generic detection among 75 engines is outweighed by long-established prevalence, a clean combined sandbox verdict, and fully checked contacts with no hostile reputation.
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Strong evidence · Widely seen for a long time, and nothing harmful found.
Good practice2 tips
We found nothing harmful in this file.
Install it only if it came from the developer's own website or an official app store.
Keep your antivirus and Windows updates switched on.
No scanner can promise a file is 100% safe.
Antivirus results
1 of 71 flagged
- Flagged 1
- No detection 70
- No result 4
- Code signing Unsigned
- Test run Completed
- First seen 8y ago
Chapter 02
Why we think so
3 points against it and 5 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
Skyhigh alone raised a generic behavioural detection; none of the major antivirus engines flagged the executable. Its history spans 582 submitters since Jul 18, 2018, the combined sandbox verdict was clean, and reputation checks found no hostile contacts, making the isolated alert very likely a false positive.
Only 1 of the 71 antivirus engines that checked it flagged the executable, using a generic behavioural label rather than naming a malware family. None of the major antivirus engines detected it, and no second engine corroborated Skyhigh's result. The file has broad, long-established prevalence, with 582 submitters and a first-seen date of Jul 18, 2018. Across nine sandbox runs, the combined verdict was clean, no named injection target was recorded, and no high-risk technique was corroborated. Reputation checks covered every listed contact and found none with a hostile reputation, while public malware databases and malware-specific community rules produced no hits. The unsigned status and unavailable static inspection limit publisher attribution, but they do not outweigh the consistent benign evidence.
What We Detected
Skyhigh was the only engine to flag the executable, assigning a generic behavioural label. The other 74 of the 71 antivirus engines that checked it did not flag it, including every major antivirus engine represented in the results, and no engine consensus identified a malware family.
Threat Behavior
The combined verdict across nine sandbox runs was clean. No named process-injection target, persistence indicator, malicious dropped file, or other corroborated high-risk technique was recorded. Reputation checks covered every listed network contact and found no known malicious or suspicious host.
What To Do Now
The isolated Skyhigh alert is most consistent with a false positive, particularly given the file's 582 submitters and history since Jul 18, 2018. Because the executable is unsigned, obtain it from the expected official source and keep security software enabled when running it.
Where this verdict could be wrong3 caveats
- Skyhigh labels the file BehavesLike.Win32.Infected.th, although no other engine corroborates that generic behavioural detection.
- The executable is unsigned, so there is no verified publisher identity.
- Our static analysis was unavailable because the file bytes were not uploaded; the conclusion therefore relies on antivirus, reputation, and evidence from the test run.
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 major antivirus engines flagged the executable.
- The file has been submitted by 582 distinct sources and was first seen on Jul 18, 2018.
- The combined sandbox verdict was clean, with no corroborated high-risk technique or named injection target.
- Every listed network contact was reputation-checked, with no known malicious or suspicious host found.
- No malicious dropped file, packing indicator, malware-specific community rule, or public malware-database listing was found.
- Skyhigh issued one generic behavioural detection.
- The executable has no verified publisher signature.
- The file bytes were not available for our own static inspection.
6 sources checked · all complete. See every source
Chapter 03
What it did in our test
It ran in 9 isolated tests; no test environment rated what it did as risky.
Test run summary
Capture complete- 9isolated sandbox runs
- 25sandbox rule tags
- 2spawned processes
- 10network contacts
- 32filesystem & mutex artifacts
Includes the sandbox verdicts, 25 mapped techniques, every process, file, registry and network entry and 1 dropped file.
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Technical details
1 of the 71 antivirus engines that checked it flags it; no publisher signature.
Sources checked
Every check behind this verdict
6 sources checked · all complete. Complete means the check returned a usable result; it does not mean the file is safe.
Engines that flagged it 1
The Safe verdict weighed these detections and treats them as non-decisive.
- SkyhighBehavesLike.Win32.Infected.th
File fingerprint
- Last analyzed
- Nov 4, 2026, 7:24 AM UTC
- SHA-256
3c754a3cd2465b5c649c2b49c4d3753168aae20e50ce6a9dc4ec884ab9df7aa5- SHA-1
38ad3516fbf64fe2c0089561cd7d5eb4ca1eafef- MD5
c19a0e7d3b498c3037745697b46fd84c
About this file
setup.exe says it is Setup/Uninstall, 1.4 MB.
- Claims to be
- Setup/UninstallFrom the file's own version information, written by whoever built it.
- Type and size
- Win32 EXE · 1.4 MB
- Signer
- UnsignedNo code signature.
- First seen
- Jul 18, 2018On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 582 distinct sources
- Packer
- None detected
- Entropy
- 6.57 of 8
First scanned
Includes every engine result (75), 1 matched signature rule, PE section entropy and packers and how widely the file has been seen.
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