File scan report
Verdict Suspicious
Is kryptonclient- 1. 21. 11. jar safe? Treat it as suspicious.
No antivirus engine detected the JAR, but a split sandbox result and unverified and mappings warrant caution before execution.
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Why Suspicious? One sandbox test run rated it malicious while another found nothing; nothing else confirms it.
Limited evidence · One sign points to a problem; nothing else confirms it.
Verify the download source and expected publisher before opening the JAR. If provenance cannot be established, avoid execution; otherwise test only in isolation with security protection enabled.
What to do now4 steps
Some signs point to a problem, but nothing confirms it is harmful. Treat it with caution.
What to do
Don't open or run it unless you're sure where it came from.
Check where you got it: an unexpected attachment, a link someone sent you or a re-upload is a red flag.
If you can't confirm where it came from, delete it. If you need the program, download it again from the publisher's own website.
If you already opened or ran it
Stop using it, run a full scan with your antivirus and watch for unexpected behavior or security alerts.
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Antivirus results
0 of 65 flagged
- Flagged 0
- No detection 65
- No result 10
- Code signing Not applicable
- Test run Completed
- First seen 16d ago
Chapter 02
Why we think so
3 points against it and 4 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
None of the 65 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this JAR, including the major group. However, one sandbox run produced a malware label and mapped possible process injection and service persistence, while another run was clean and the saved evidence showed no injection target or persistence artifact.
The strongest reassuring signal is that none of the 65 antivirus engines that checked it flagged the file, and no engine family consensus exists. Evidence from the test run is mixed because one sandbox labeled it as malware or a trojan while another returned clean. The and mappings raise concern, but the record names no injected target and contains no persistence indicators. Eight dropped files lack saved verdicts, so their status remains unresolved rather than harmful. No malware-specific research rules, known family label, or malicious child corroborates the adverse sandbox result, and no complete contacted-host reputation result is available.
What We Detected
None of the 65 antivirus engines that checked it flagged the JAR, including all 17 major antivirus engines represented in the results. No named malware family or malware-specific research rule matched it.
Threat Behavior
Two sandbox runs disagreed: one produced a malware or trojan label and the other returned clean. Runtime mapping included T1055, possible process injection, and T1543.002, service-related persistence; however, the saved evidence records no injected target, no persistence indicator, and no sample network contacts. Eight files were dropped, but none has a saved verdict, and no complete contacted-host reputation check is available.
What To Do Now
Do not run the JAR on a primary system until its origin and expected behavior are verified. If testing is necessary, keep security software enabled and use an isolated virtual machine without sensitive accounts or files.
Where this verdict could be wrong2 caveats
- One sandbox run labeled the sample as malware or a trojan, although the other run returned clean.
- The eight dropped files have no saved verdicts, so they cannot be treated as confirmed harmless.
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 65 antivirus engines that checked it flagged the file.
- All 17 major antivirus engines represented in the results reported no detection.
- No named malware family or malware-specific research rule matched the sample.
- The runtime record identifies no injected target, persistence artifact, or sample network contact.
- One of two sandbox runs labeled the sample as malware or a trojan.
- The test run mapped possible process injection and service-related persistence techniques.
- The file was first observed on Oct 9, 2026.
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 not needed or not applicable. See every source
Chapter 03
What it did in our test
It ran in our isolated test environment; 1 test environment rated what it did as risky.
Test run summary
Capture complete- 16sandbox rule tags
- 3spawned processes
- 0network contacts
- 14filesystem & mutex artifacts
What the test run showed
What the file did on a test computer
Confirmed in the test run
Moderate concern: Contains packed or scrambled code that is harder to inspect (common in installers too).
Moderate concern: Ran commands or a script on the test computer.
Moderate concern: Hid files or windows on the test computer.
Note: Read basic details of the test computer, such as its Windows version.
Note: Loaded extra code modules while running.
Note: Checked which security software was installed on the test computer.
Sandbox labels we could not confirm (common in safe files too)
Not confirmed: A sandbox rule tagged this run as code injection, but no injected program was recorded.
Not confirmed: A sandbox rule tagged this run as downloading a file, but no download was recorded.
Not confirmed: A sandbox rule tagged this run as creating a service; no new service was recorded.
Not confirmed: A sandbox rule tagged this run as changing how Windows loads code; nothing confirms it.
This file was run on a test computer (a sandbox), not on yours. Labels we could not confirm are listed so you can see them, but they are not treated as evidence against the file.
Recorded behavior
What happened in the test
Grouped by step. The order is not a timeline.
- 1
Input file
The submitted object
- Evidence 1 of 5: FileSeen in the test run
kryptonclient-1.21.11.jar
3e10a10c9135a7776b5c59a48c23617351375e3fc67f0d257e730daf8136670f
Uploaded file
- 2
Processes
What ran
- Evidence 2 of 5: ProcessSeen in the test run
javaw.exe
"C:\Program Files\Java\jre-1.8\bin\javaw.exe" -jar "C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\download.jar"
Test run - Evidence 3 of 5: ProcessSeen in the test run
cmd.exe
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c ""C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_441\bin\java.exe" -jar "C:\Users\user\Desktop\sample.jar""
Test run - +1 more recorded observation
- 2
Files
Created or changed
- Evidence 4 of 5: Written fileSeen in the test run
6680
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\hsperfdata_<USER>\6680
Test run - Evidence 5 of 5: Written fileSeen in the test run
3903daac9bc4a3b7.timestamp
C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\.oracle_jre_usage\3903daac9bc4a3b7.timestamp
Test run - +1 more recorded observation
5 facts from the test run. See the full activity list.
What this file did when executed
The combined sandbox summary is split: at least one run returned "malicious" and another returned "clean".
Sandbox verdicts
2- VT: MALWARE, TROJANmalicious
- VT: CLEANclean
Techniques observed in the sandbox
16MITRE ATT&CK techniques the sandbox mapped. Highlighted ones are rare in normal software; the others are common in legitimate programs too.
- T1027· Obfuscated code
- T1055· Process injection
- T1059· Runs commands
- T1064
- T1074
- T1082· System recon
- T1105· Network file transfer
- T1106
- T1129· Loads modules
- T1202
- T1518.001· Checks your AV
- T1543.002· Service install
- T1564· Hides artifacts
- T1564.001· Hides artifacts
- T1564.003· Hides artifacts
- T1574· Execution hijack
Observed activity
Processes started
3Programs the file ran, with their command lines.
javaw.exe"C:\Program Files\Java\jre-1.8\bin\javaw.exe" -jar "C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\download.jar"cmd.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c ""C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_441\bin\java.exe" -jar "C:\Users\user\Desktop\sample.jar""java.exe"C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_441\bin\java.exe" -jar "C:\Users\user\Desktop\sample.jar"
Files
14Files the file created, changed or deleted.
- Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\hsperfdata_<USER>\6680 - Written
C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\.oracle_jre_usage\3903daac9bc4a3b7.timestamp - Written
C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\.oracle_jre_usage\17dfc292991c8786.timestamp - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\hsperfdata_user - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\hsperfdata_user\6824 - Written
\Device\ConDrv
Show all 14 entries for files
- Written
\Device\ConDrv\\Connect - Written
/proc/3563/coredump_filter - Written
/tmp/hsperfdata_root/3563 - Written
/var/log/auth.log.1.gz - Written
/var/log/dpkg.log.1.gz - Written
/var/log/kern.log.1.gz - Written
/var/log/syslog.1.gz - Deleted
/tmp/hsperfdata_root/3563
Sandbox background — not the file
12The analysis machine's own processes and connections, recorded in every run.
- VM process
icacls.exeC:\Windows\system32\icacls.exe C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\.oracle_jre_usage /grant "everyone":(OI)(CI)M - VM process
conhost.exeC:\Windows\System32\conhost.exe C:\Windows\system32\conhost.exe 0xffffffff -ForceV1 - VM process
gzip/bin/gzip - VM process
sh/bin/sh sh -c "\n\t\tinvoke-rc.d --quiet cups restart > /dev/null\n" logrotate_script "/var/log/cups/*log " - VM process
invoke-rc.d/usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d invoke-rc.d --quiet cups restart - VM process
runlevel/sbin/runlevel
Show all 12 entries for sandbox background — not the file
- VM process
systemctl/usr/bin/systemctl systemctl --quiet is-enabled cups.service - VM process
ls/usr/bin/ls ls /etc/rc[S2345].d/S[0-9][0-9]cups - VM process
systemctl/usr/bin/systemctl systemctl --quiet is-active cups.service - VM process
sh/bin/sh sh -c /usr/lib/rsyslog/rsyslog-rotate logrotate_script /var/log/syslog - VM process
rsyslog-rotate/usr/lib/rsyslog/rsyslog-rotate - VM process
systemctl/usr/bin/systemctl systemctl kill -s HUP rsyslog.service
Files this sample writes at runtime
This file drops 3 children at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache. 3 have no saved verdict and were not checked; that is missing coverage, not a finding.
- a4566cef84d93e732bf9…54845fNot checkedno saved verdict
- 866cecd92f09c9e4c6eb…42447aNot checkedno saved verdict
- d12cafb625382c198fa3…928ef4Not checkedno saved verdict
Chapter 04
Technical details
None of the 65 antivirus engines that checked it flag it.
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 15, 2026, 7:39 PM UTC
- SHA-256
3e10a10c9135a7776b5c59a48c23617351375e3fc67f0d257e730daf8136670f- SHA-1
9369626c7501c143e7d041105517ed61d3e35448- MD5
b9e2e1844e8b8bdb271dba0f2ebf8359
About this file
kryptonclient-1.21.11.jar is a JAR file of 5.9 MB.
- Type and size
- JAR · 5.9 MB
- Signer
- Not applicable
- First seen
- Oct 9, 2026On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 55 distinct sources
First scanned
Antivirus consensus
0 of 65 engines flagged this file
10 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-118 engines0flagged
- Tier-234 engines0flagged
- Low-trust13 engines0flagged
View all 75 engine results
- AcronisClean
- AhnLab-V3Clean
- AlibabaClean
- alibabacloudClean
- ALYacClean
- Antiy-AVLClean
- APEXNo result
- ArcabitClean
- AvastClean
- Avast-MobileClean
- AVGClean
- AviraClean
- BitDefenderClean
- BitDefenderFalxNo result
- BkavClean
- CAT-QuickHealClean
- ClamAVClean
- CMCClean
- CrowdStrikeClean
- CTXClean
- CylanceNo result
- CynetClean
- DeepInstinctNo result
- DrWebClean
- ElasticNo result
- EmsisoftClean
- ESET-NOD32Clean
- F-SecureClean
- FortinetClean
- GDataClean
- GoogleNo result
- GridinsoftClean
- huorongClean
- IkarusClean
- JiangminClean
- K7AntiVirusClean
- K7GWClean
- KasperskyClean
- KingsoftClean
- LionicClean
- MalwarebytesClean
- MaxSecureClean
- McAfeeDClean
- MicrosoftClean
- MicroWorld-eScanClean
- NANO-AntivirusClean
- PaloaltoNo result
- PandaClean
- RisingClean
- SangforClean
- SentinelOneClean
- SkyhighClean
- SophosClean
- SUPERAntiSpywareClean
- SymantecClean
- SymantecMobileInsightNo result
- TACHYONClean
- tehtrisNo result
- TencentClean
- TrapmineNo result
- TrellixENSClean
- TrendMicroClean
- TrendMicro-HouseCallClean
- TrustlookClean
- 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)
How widely this file has been seen
Moderate prevalence — neither rare nor common. No strong prior applies.
Chapter 05
Questions & answers
Short answers to the 6 questions people ask most about this file.
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