File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is Blue
A validly signed BlueStacks installer from Now.gg, INC that none of the 71 antivirus engines that checked it flagged, widely submitted by thousands of users, with clean sandbox…
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Strong evidence · A verified publisher signature, and no engine flags it.
This installer appears to be the genuine BlueStacks setup; install it only from the official BlueStacks website and keep your security software enabled.
Good practice2 tips
We found nothing harmful in this file.
Run 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
0 of 71 flagged
- Flagged 0
- No detection 71
- No result 4
- Code signing Now.gg, INC
- Test run Completed
- First seen 17d ago
Chapter 02
Why we think so
0 points against it and 5 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
None of the 71 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this installer, and it carries a valid signature from Now.gg, INC, the company behind BlueStacks. Thousands of distinct users have submitted the same file, and the sandbox runs showed ordinary installer activity, contacting only BlueStacks' own cloud service.
None of the 71 antivirus engines that checked it flagged the file, including all 18 major antivirus engines that returned a result. The signature from Now.gg, INC verified, and every earlier sample we have seen from this signer was clean. Nearly 2,800 distinct users submitted this exact file within 11 days, which fits a popular emulator installer. The four sandbox runs recorded no high-risk techniques with supporting artefacts and no injected processes, and the only network contact was BlueStacks' own country-lookup service, which our host reputation check found clean. Previous files sharing this build and signer were all judged clean.
What We Detected
None of the 71 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this BlueStacks installer. It carries a valid code signature from Now.gg, INC, and the same file has been submitted by about 2,800 distinct users. No public malware database or community rule set lists it.
Threat Behavior
Across four sandbox runs the installer unpacked its interface assets into a temporary folder and contacted BlueStacks' own cloud service to look up the user's country. Our reputation check of both contacted hosts found nothing malicious or suspicious. Some generic technique labels appeared in the sandbox summary, but no target process or matching artefact was recorded, which is typical of ordinary installers.
What To Do Now
If you downloaded this from the official BlueStacks website, it is reasonable to install it. Keep your antivirus enabled during installation, as usual.
Where this verdict could be wrong1 caveat
- The signer is not yet on our curated trusted-publisher list and has a short history of four samples, so publisher trust rests partly on prevalence and clean detections.
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 71 antivirus engines that checked it flagged the file
- Valid code signature from Now.gg, INC, with a clean history for this signer
- Submitted by about 2,800 distinct users, consistent with widely used software
- Network activity limited to BlueStacks' own service, which our reputation check found clean
- Earlier files from the same signer and build were all judged clean
6 sources checked · all complete. See every source
Chapter 03
What it did in our test
It ran in 4 isolated tests; no test environment rated what it did as risky.
Test run summary
Capture complete- 4isolated sandbox runs
- 28sandbox rule tags
- 3spawned processes
- 2network contacts
- 32filesystem & mutex artifacts
Includes the sandbox verdicts, 28 mapped techniques, every process, file, registry and network entry and 10 dropped files.
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Technical details
None of the 71 antivirus engines that checked it flag it; signed by Now.gg, 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.
File fingerprint
- Last analyzed
- Oct 19, 2026, 9:49 PM UTC
- SHA-256
48cb161fd85b862118dde6d7ab0b4b7308847b27f9941dcc9031f272ae05390a- SHA-1
35ca8c216547721c6d3c6b34dfbd240783f37e25- MD5
98995d1198de458a11abe8afd6d40272
About this file
BlueStacksInstaller.exe says it is BlueStacks Setup (BlueStacks 5), 953.9 kB.
- Claims to be
- BlueStacks Setup (BlueStacks 5)From the file's own version information, written by whoever built it.
- Original name
- BlueStacksInstaller.exeMatches the shared file name.
- Type and size
- Win32 EXE · 953.9 kB
- Signer
- Now.gg, INCValid code signature.
- First seen
- Oct 9, 2026On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 2,793 distinct sources
- Packer
- None detected
- Entropy
- 6.26 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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