Safe
Plain-text file with zero malicious detections across 61 antivirus engines and no suspicious behaviour indicators.
4f86ce4e5f6a24f04e…30512054f7The verdict, reasoned out.
Not a rules engine. The MT AI Engine reads every signal we collected, weighs them against history, and commits to an answer.
The file is a benign text document with zero malicious detections across a comprehensive antivirus network. The tier-1 engine consensus is unanimously clean, and no heuristic rules fired. There are no indicators of code execution, network communication, or payload delivery. The file's age (54 days) and medium prevalence (7 submitters) are consistent with a legitimate shared document. No adversarial filename patterns, brand mismatches, or external intelligence hits were detected.
Each signal cites a concrete token from the evidence the arbiter saw — engine name, MITRE technique, signer string, or an exact count.
engines: 0/61 malicious, 17/17 tier-1 engines reporting undetected (Avast, BitDefender, Kaspersky, Microsoft, ESET, Fortinet, Ikarus, DrWeb, Emsisoft, F-Secure, GData, Avira, AVG)
fileType=Text, size=282 bytes, no PE structure, no imphash — plain-text document with no executable capability
adversarialInputFlags.anyInjectionSuspected=false; filenameAnalysis all false (no security-software or research-tool indicators)
behaviour=null, droppedChildren=null, contactedHosts=null, externalIntel all negative (CIRCL, MalwareBazaar, YARAify no hits)
prevalence.classification=medium (7 submitters, 7 submissions); triggeredHeuristics=[] (no heuristic rules fired)
- Zero malicious detections across 61 antivirus engines
- 17 tier-1 vendors unanimously report undetected
- No executable code, no PE structure, plain-text format only
- No sandbox behaviour, no dropped files, no network contact
- No heuristic rules triggered; no external intelligence hits
This file is safe. No quarantine or further analysis is needed. You may open and use it without concern.
0 detections across 75 engines
How often this file shows up in the wild
Moderate prevalence — neither rare nor common. No strong prior applies.
Forensic fingerprint
- File name
- ReadMe.txt
- Size
- 282 B
- MIME type
- (unknown)
- Detected type
- Text
- SHA-256
- 4f86ce4e5f6a24f04ef509da0b5c7d1a9892b0722bd71a2eba78bc30512054f7
- MD5
- e52dec041b9a21f0ad6e35e045821124
- SHA-1
- d850e7c20f40520bf0ff09b3297b0d0dce7c318a
- First seen (VT)
- 5/19/2026, 9:08:03 AM
- Last analysis (VT)
- 5/19/2026, 9:08:03 AM
- First scan (MalwareTips)
- 7/12/2026, 4:37:00 AM
- Last scan (MalwareTips)
- 7/12/2026, 4:36:59 AM
Safety FAQ
Common questions about ReadMe.txt, answered from the scan data above.
- ReadMe.txt appears safe. 75 of 75 antivirus engines report it clean. As a habit, only open files you downloaded from the official source, since attackers sometimes distribute trojanised copies of legitimate software under the same name.
- ReadMe.txt is a file, about 282 bytes. Our analysis found no threat indicators for it. A file's name can be reused by different files, so we identify it by its cryptographic hash (below).
- None — all 75 antivirus engines we queried report ReadMe.txt as clean. That's reassuring, though brand-new malware can briefly evade detection before vendors add signatures, so we also weigh the file's behaviour and reputation.
- The SHA-256 hash of ReadMe.txt is 4f86ce4e5f6a24f04ef509da0b5c7d1a9892b0722bd71a2eba78bc30512054f7, and its MD5 is e52dec041b9a21f0ad6e35e045821124. This hash is the file's unique fingerprint — two files with the same SHA-256 are identical. Use it to confirm you're looking at exactly this file (not just one with the same name) when comparing against antivirus databases or a download's published checksum.
- Based on this scan, yes — ReadMe.txt shows no threat indicators. The important caveat is source: make sure you downloaded it from the official website or a trusted store, because attackers sometimes distribute malware-laced copies under a legitimate file's name. If your own antivirus flags it while we report it clean, that is most often a false positive, but verify the source before overriding your antivirus.
- This report reflects the scan run on July 12, 2026. Because a file's hash never changes, the identity of ReadMe.txt is fixed — but antivirus coverage improves over time, so a file that looks clean today can pick up detections later (and vice-versa). If you need the latest picture, MalwareTips staff can re-run the analysis from scratch.
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