File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is winutil-
None of the 65 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this archive of PowerShell-based Windows utility scripts, and the sandbox runs recorded no high-risk techniques.
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Moderate evidence · No engine flags it, but no publisher signature confirms who made it.
This archive can be used. Download it from the official project page and review any system tweaks before applying them.
Good practice2 tips
We found nothing harmful in this file.
Open it only if you trust the person or website you got it from.
Keep your security software and system updates switched on.
No scanner can promise a file is 100% safe.
Antivirus results
0 of 65 flagged
- Flagged 0
- No detection 65
- No result 10
- Code signing Not applicable
- Test run Completed
- First seen 18d ago
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Why we think so
1 point against it and 3 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
It contains a PowerShell Windows tweaking utility. In two sandbox runs, the archive's own scripts ran without high-risk techniques, injection targets or persistence. Public malware databases and community rules returned no matches.
No engine reported the archive, including all 18 major antivirus engines. The two sandbox runs show PowerShell running the tool's own function scripts from the extracted folder. That matches what a script-based Windows utility does. No public malware database or community rule lists the file. A contacted-host reputation result is not available, but the runs recorded no network contacts from the sample.
What We Detected
None of the 65 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this ZIP archive, and all 18 major antivirus engines reported it clean. Public malware databases and community YARA rules returned no matches.
Threat Behavior
In two sandbox runs, PowerShell executed the utility's own scripts, such as tweak-report and install-area initialisation functions. The runs recorded no high-risk techniques, no injection targets, no persistence and no network contacts from the sample. File and registry writes were ordinary shell and jump-list activity.
What To Do Now
Get the tool from its official project source. This utility changes Windows settings, so review the tweaks before applying them. Keep your antivirus enabled while you use it.
Where this verdict could be wrong1 caveat
- The archive runs PowerShell scripts with execution-policy bypass and changes system settings by design, so a tampered copy would be harder to tell apart from the real tool. No engine or rule found such tampering here.
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 archive.
- The sandbox runs recorded no high-risk techniques, injection targets or persistence.
- No matches in public malware databases or malware-specific YARA rules.
- The tool runs PowerShell scripts with execution-policy bypass and is designed to change system settings.
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 not needed or not applicable. See every source
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What it did in our test
It ran in 2 isolated tests; no test environment rated what it did as risky.
Test run summary
Capture complete- 2isolated sandbox runs
- 18sandbox rule tags
- 15spawned processes
- 0network contacts
- 30filesystem & mutex artifacts
Includes 18 mapped techniques, every process, file, registry and network entry and 10 dropped files.
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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 18, 2026, 6:22 PM UTC
- SHA-256
4f4cb4212be3b45c7e0df8af830c91892acda5b70f93b33fdfa133c0a605939c- SHA-1
20da710e26dd36e03fc4e0ab8c5db4b1926baa07- MD5
8787dfae89b783e5cb246b7fc6c07d1b
About this file
winutil-main.zip is a ZIP file of 2.8 MB.
- Type and size
- ZIP · 2.8 MB
- Signer
- Not applicable
- First seen
- Oct 8, 2026On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 9 distinct sourcesRarely seen: few people have submitted this exact file.
First scanned
Includes every engine result (75), 1 matched signature rule and how widely the file has been seen.
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