File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Safe

Published e-book with zero malicious detections across 65 antivirus engines and no external intelligence hits.

Trust score92High trust
MT AI confidence · 98%
Mapmatics_ How We Navigate the World Through Numbers -- Paulina Rowińska -- PT, 2024 -- Picador -- isbn13 9781035007042 -- 8d9f7b9298232923891c76e629be0873 .epub
10.9 MB
522699625a92635c50a26a60ac35
Antivirus engines
0 of 76 flagged
Code signing
Unsigned
Age
First seen 2y ago
MT AI Engine · our arbiter

The 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.

98%Confidence
Very high
Reasoning

The file is an unsigned EPUB e-book, which is the expected format for published commercial books. Zero of 65 reporting engines detected malware, including 18 high-trust vendors (Avast, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Kaspersky, McAfee, Fortinet, and others). No tier-1 family consensus exists because no tier-1 engine flagged it. External intelligence sources (CIRCL, YARA, MalwareBazaar) returned no hits. The filename is a legitimate ISBN-tagged book title with no injection phrases or spoofing. Prevalence data (4 submitters, 5 submissions) is consistent with a published book distributed through multiple channels. No sandbox data is available because e-books are not executable.

Key signals · 5

Each signal cites a concrete token from the evidence the arbiter saw — engine name, MITRE technique, signer string, or an exact count.

  1. engines.tier1Malicious=0; tier1ReportedClean=18 (Avast, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Kaspersky, McAfee, Fortinet, Ikarus, GData, Emsisoft, Avira, DrWeb, F-Secure all report undetected)

  2. engines.malicious=0/65 reporting; no malicious labels in allMaliciousLabels[]

  3. fileType='E-book' (EPUB); unsigned status expected for published commercial content

  4. prevalence.classification='medium' (4 submitters, 5 submissions); consistent with legitimate book distribution

  5. externalIntel: circl.hit=false, yaraify.ruleCount=0, malwareBazaar.hit=false

Points in its favour
  • Zero malicious detections across 65 antivirus engines
  • 18 tier-1 vendors (Avast, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Kaspersky, McAfee, Fortinet, Ikarus, GData, Emsisoft, Avira, DrWeb, F-Secure) all report clean
  • No external threat intelligence hits (CIRCL, YARA, MalwareBazaar)
  • Legitimate ISBN-tagged filename with no adversarial signals
  • Medium prevalence consistent with published book distribution
What to do

This file is safe. It is a legitimate published e-book with no malicious indicators across our entire antivirus network and external threat intelligence sources.

No researcher-database hits
External threat-intel sources were not collected for this scan.
Antivirus engine breakdown

0 detections across 76 engines

0 malicious0 suspicious76 clean
Tier-118 engines
0flag
Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)
Tier-239 engines
0flag
Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates
Low-trust19 engines
0flag
Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)
All 76 engines report this file as clean.
Hash 522699625a92… cross-referenced against 76 AV engines via our AV network.
Prevalence

How often this file shows up in the wild

Moderate prevalence — neither rare nor common. No strong prior applies.

Medium
Unique uploaders
4
Moderate upload volume.
Total submissions
5
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen by VT
2y ago
Jun 9, 2024
Prevalence quadrant
Rare · New
Targeted malware lives here
Common · New
Just-released software
Rare · Old
Niche or internal tooling
Common · Old
Trusted legitimate binaries
File identity

Forensic fingerprint

File biography
First seen (VT)
6/9/2024, 11:11:19 AM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
6/9/2024, 11:11:19 AM
Scanned here
7/2/2026, 3:02:04 PM
File name
Mapmatics_ How We Navigate the World Through Numbers -- Paulina Rowińska -- PT, 2024 -- Picador -- isbn13 9781035007042 -- 8d9f7b9298232923891c76e629be0873 .epub
Size
10.87 MB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
E-book
SHA-256
522699625a92635c50a93633e865898d65f51358c69fe16372dcdea26a60ac35
MD5
8d9f7b9298232923891c76e629be0873
SHA-1
4efc77947443184229adbedbe4d41512fa3db85a
First seen (VT)
6/9/2024, 11:11:19 AM
Last analysis (VT)
6/9/2024, 11:11:19 AM
First scan (MalwareTips)
7/2/2026, 3:02:04 PM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
7/2/2026, 3:02:04 PM
Behavior tags
ebook
Community classification

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