Is VLC-Android-3.7.0-arm64-v8a.apk safe?
No antivirus engine detected a threat, and the APK has broad established prevalence, although its listed direct-IP contacts lack a completed reputation check.
All 73 antivirus engines were free of detections, including 15 tier-1 engines, and the APK has appeared across 427 sources over 206 days. A direct-IP heuristic deserves awareness, but no completed runtime observation or host-reputation check is available to substantiate malicious communication.
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Before installing
Install it only from Google Play, the developer's official store, or another source you independently trust.
If you already installed it
Keep normal device protection enabled and stop if the file behaves unexpectedly.
Intelligence
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The reasoning behind this verdict
This section explains the evidence supporting the verdict and keeps conflicting or missing signals visible.
All 73 antivirus engines were free of detections, including 15 tier-1 engines, and the APK has appeared across 427 sources over 206 days. A direct-IP heuristic deserves awareness, but no completed runtime observation or host-reputation check is available to substantiate malicious communication.
The antivirus results show 0 of 73 engines detecting the APK, with all 15 tier-1 engines reporting no detection. Its 427-source prevalence and 491 submissions over 206 days are consistent with established commodity software rather than a narrowly distributed payload. No MalwareBazaar, CIRCL, or YARAify match supplies independent threat corroboration. A heuristic noted 10 direct IP contacts, but behaviour.sandboxCount=0 means these were not established through a completed runtime observation. Because contactedHosts is null, no complete reputation assessment of those IP addresses is available, so that signal cannot be treated as confirmed command-and-control activity.
What We Detected
The APK produced 0 detections across 73 antivirus engines. All 15 tier-1 engines, including Avast, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Kaspersky, Microsoft, and Fortinet, reported no detection. It is also broadly established, with 427 unique sources and 491 submissions over 206 days.
Threat Behavior
No completed sandbox run is available, so runtime behavior cannot be characterized. The static evidence lists 10 external IP contacts and triggered MalwareTips.Synth.DirectIpC2, but no application domain was recorded and contactedHosts is null; therefore, no complete host-reputation result exists. No offensive-only techniques, malicious child files, YARAify rules, MalwareBazaar match, or CIRCL match were found.
What To Do Now
Prefer an official app store or the publisher's official release channel, and verify that the package version and hash match the expected download. Keep Android security protections enabled, especially when installing an APK outside the normal store workflow.
Where this verdict could be wrong2 caveats
- MalwareTips.Synth.DirectIpC2 fired because 10 external IP addresses were listed without application domains; however, no completed sandbox run or host-reputation cross-check corroborates command-and-control activity.
- The APK carries the tags 'obfuscated', 'contains-elf', 'contains-macho', and 'contains-pe'; bundled native components and obfuscation increase analysis complexity but are not independently malicious.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- 0/73 antivirus engines reported malicious or suspicious findings.
- engines.tier1ReportedClean=15 and engines.tier1Malicious=0.
- prevalence shows 427 unique sources and 491 submissions over 206 days.
- externalIntel.yaraify.ruleCount=0 and externalIntel.malwareBazaar.hit=false.
- behaviour.offensiveCount=0 and no malicious dropped child is reported.
- MalwareTips.Synth.DirectIpC2 fired for 10 external IP contacts without recorded application domains.
- contactedHosts=null, leaving the listed IP addresses without a complete reputation cross-check.
- behaviour.sandboxCount=0, so no completed runtime observation is available.
- file.tags includes 'obfuscated' and multiple bundled executable formats.
Install only if the APK came from VLC's official release channel or a trusted app store, and verify its SHA-256 hash. Keep endpoint and Android security protections enabled.
Coverage & freshness
Complete means the check returned a usable result. It does not mean the file is safe.
Antivirus
Complete0 of 73 engines flagged the file.
Sandbox
PartialRuntime data is present, but no completed sandbox environment is recorded.
Network
Partial10 runtime contacts were observed without a completed reputation cross-check.
YARA
Complete1 signature or behavior rule matched.
External intel
Complete3 of 3 independent reference sources completed.
Behavior
Plain-English impact first, then the observed runtime evidence.
Attack story
Runtime observations grouped by analysis stage. Arrows organize the stages; they do not claim chronology or causality.
Input file
The submitted object
- FileObserved
VLC-Android-3.7.0-arm64-v8a.apk
4f3c08e4ef6f66ee1f9abd27115790d6e9d160226bb7158787c7b21d3cae924f
01Uploaded file
Network
Hosts contacted
- Contacted hostObserved
173.194.64.99
Contact observed during runtime.
02Isolated runtime analysis - Contacted hostObserved
173.194.194.94
Contact observed during runtime.
03Isolated runtime analysis - +1 more recorded observation in Analyst mode
3 recorded facts from one runtime window. Every fact remains independently traceable in Analyst mode.
Runtime behavior was not available
The report does not treat a missing runtime observation as a clean result.
Detection & Forensics
Consensus, attribution, signatures, code structure, prevalence, and identity.
Evidence integrity
Chain of custody for the facts preserved in this report.
- 1rule hit recorded
- 0 / 73engines flagged
- 427sources in submission history
Why these facts are shown
Each statement identifies whether it was directly recorded or derived from saved scan facts.
- 01
0 of 73 antivirus engines flagged the file.
Verdict inputView chapterProvenanceObservedSourceAntivirus analysisObserved at - 02
The hash has a long, established submission history across 427 sources.
Verdict inputView chapterProvenanceDerivedSourceSubmission historyObserved at - 03
No completed runtime observation is available for this file.
ProvenanceDerivedSourceRuntime coverageObserved at - 04
Scanned file: VLC-Android-3.7.0-arm64-v8a.apk — 4f3c08e4ef6f66ee1f9abd27115790d6e9d160226bb7158787c7b21d3cae924f
ProvenanceObservedSourceUploaded fileObserved at - 05
Contacted host: 173.194.64.99 — Contact observed during runtime.
ProvenanceObservedSourceIsolated runtime analysisObserved at - 06
Contacted host: 173.194.194.94 — Contact observed during runtime.
ProvenanceObservedSourceIsolated runtime analysisObserved at
Detection sources at a glance
The available sources did not agree on a named threat category.
MalwareBazaar, YARAify, and CIRCL hashlookup completed and returned no entries for this hash.
Signatures and behavior heuristics
Behavioral heuristics matched patterns associated with malware. Corroborating evidence determines how much weight they carry.
The sample contacted an external IP address directly and no application domain was recorded. Direct-IP traffic also occurs in legitimate installers and infrastructure, so this is supporting context only and requires corroboration from host reputation and other runtime evidence.
Evidence173.194.64.99 · 173.194.194.94 · 104.21.64.137
0 of 73 engines flagged this file
View all 73 engine results
PE structure
Not applicablePE structure analysis applies to Windows executable formats, not this file type.
How widely this file has been seen
Widely seen in the wild for a long time. High prior this is legitimate; isolated detections on common-old files are usually false positives.
Fingerprint and provenance
- File name
- VLC-Android-3.7.0-arm64-v8a.apk
- Format
- Android
- Code signing
- Not applicable to this file type
- Size
- 47.6 MB
- Last analyzed
- Sep 19, 2026, 7:05 PM UTC
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What to do now
This file appears low risk based on the evidence available now.
- Recovery step 01
Install it only from Google Play, the developer's official store, or another source you independently trust.
- Recovery step 02
A clean result reduces known risk, but it cannot guarantee that every new or targeted threat has been detected.
- Recovery step 03
Keep your antivirus and Windows updates switched on so you stay protected.
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