File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is Adobe Installer safe? Yes, no threats found.
A valid Adobe signature and broad major silence outweigh one generic Yandex detection, though packed code and unusual runtime mappings warrant source verification.
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Moderate evidence · No engine flags it, but no publisher signature confirms who made it.
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Antivirus results
1 of 71 flagged
- Flagged 1
- No detection 70
- No result 4
- Code signing Adobe Inc.
- Test run Completed
- First seen 3mo ago
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Why we think so
5 points against it and 5 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
The executable carries a verified Adobe Inc. signature, and only 1 of the 71 antivirus engines that checked it flagged it with a generic Trojan label; no major antivirus engines agreed. The completed sandbox run did not issue a malware finding, but UPX packing and several offensive technique mappings mean it should still come from an official Adobe download channel.
The strongest identity evidence is the verified Adobe Inc. signature, which matches a curated trusted publisher and shows no conflicting brand information. Only Yandex flagged the sample among 75 engines, using a generic label that lacks family consensus, while all 17 major antivirus engines were silent. One completed sandbox run returned a clean result, and the fully covered host-reputation check found no malicious or suspicious destinations. However, the executable is UPX-packed and received T1055, T1485, T1486, and mappings, which are meaningful caution signals even though no injected target was identified. Two comparable Adobe-signed files were previously assessed as benign installers, while a same-import-table fingerprint, signer-matching sample was assessed cautiously, leaving some residual uncertainty. Overall, the solitary generic detection is most consistent with a false positive, provided the file was obtained through Adobe's official distribution channel.
What We Detected
Only 1 of the 71 antivirus engines that checked it flagged the executable. Yandex supplied the sole generic Trojan label, while none of the 17 major antivirus engines reported malware or agreed on a threat family. The executable has a verified Adobe Inc. signature that matches a curated trusted publisher, and no claimed-brand conflict was identified.
Threat Behavior
One completed sandbox run did not return a malware finding. Observed traffic included Adobe-related infrastructure and cloud-hosted devices; after excluding two identified analysis-environment contacts, all nine distinct observed hosts received reputation coverage with no malicious or suspicious matches. The sample nevertheless contains UPX-packed, high-entropy code and was mapped to T1055, T1485, T1486, and T1562.001. No injected process target was recorded, so the T1055 mapping indicates possible injection-related activity rather than proven injection into a named process.
What To Do Now
Use the executable only if it came directly from Adobe's official application or download channel, and verify that Windows still reports the Adobe Inc. signature as valid before running it. If it arrived through email, advertising, a file-sharing site, or another untrusted source, discard it and download a fresh installer from Adobe while keeping security software enabled.
Where this verdict could be wrong3 caveats
- UPX packing, high-entropy code, and the four offensive technique mappings are atypical enough to warrant caution even with a valid Adobe signature.
- A prior signer-matching file with the same import-table fingerprint received a suspicious assessment for unusual behavior.
- The ten dropped files have no saved assessments, so their individual safety remains unverified.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- The digital signature is valid and belongs to Adobe Inc., a recognized trusted publisher.
- None of the 17 major antivirus engines reported malware.
- The completed sandbox run did not issue a malware finding.
- Complete reputation coverage of the nine distinct non-background contacted hosts found no malicious or suspicious matches.
- Two prior Adobe-signed comparison files were assessed as benign installers.
- The executable uses UPX packing and contains high-entropy code.
- The test run mapped possible process injection, data destruction, ransomware-style impact, and security-control impairment techniques.
- One engine supplied a generic Trojan detection.
- A comparable Adobe-signed file sharing this import-table fingerprint previously received a cautious assessment.
- Ten dropped files were observed but do not have individual saved assessments.
6 sources checked · all complete. 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- 28sandbox rule tags
- 7spawned processes
- 9network contacts
- 40filesystem & mutex artifacts
Includes the sandbox verdicts, 28 mapped techniques, every process, file, registry and network entry and 9 dropped files.
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Technical details
1 of the 71 antivirus engines that checked it flags it; signed by Adobe Inc..
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.
- YandexTrojan.GenAsa!rBStHMRk3Wo
File fingerprint
- Last analyzed
- Oct 11, 2026, 8:28 PM UTC
- SHA-256
426fc32fbbc4cff8501e08b48186073b8b3657fe363d563d23b06576cfb90265- SHA-1
bedb564072e3333a5d27b69195a2b1c2f356236e- MD5
0d3b206ecdf9d69e051e11c708ab81cf
About this file
Adobe Installer is a Win32 EXE file of 3.6 MB.
- Type and size
- Win32 EXE · 3.6 MB
- Signer
- Adobe Inc.Valid code signature.
- First seen
- Jul 20, 2026On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 212 distinct sources
- Packer
- UPX v0.89.6 - v1.02 / v1.05 -v1.24 -> Markus & Laszlo [overlay]Packing hides code; legitimate installers use it too.
- Entropy
- 7.40 of 8A code section is highly compressed or encrypted.
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Includes every engine result (75), 2 matched signature rules, PE section entropy and packers and how widely the file has been seen.
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