File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is PAWGVERSE.
None of the 69 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this small unsigned Windows program, and the sandbox runs recorded no high-risk techniques or network activity.
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Moderate evidence · No engine flags it, but no publisher signature confirms who made it.
No malicious indicators were found. Use the program only if it came from a trusted source, and keep your security software enabled.
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We found nothing harmful in this file.
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Antivirus results
0 of 69 flagged
- Flagged 0
- No detection 69
- No result 4
- Code signing Unsigned
- Test run Completed
- First seen 4mo ago
Chapter 02
Why we think so
1 point against it and 4 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
None of the 69 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this executable, including every major vendor. It has been seen by over 200 submitters across nearly four months. The sandbox runs showed no high-risk behaviour or network contacts. The program is unsigned, so its author cannot be confirmed.
Zero of the 69 antivirus engines that checked it detect this file, and all 17 major antivirus engines reported it clean. The sandbox runs recorded only techniques that are common in legitimate software. Two mapping labels appeared without any matching artefact, and no process was injected. The file shows no network contacts, and the files it wrote are Windows crash-report data, which suggests the program crashed in the sandbox. Its structure is not packed and its entropy is ordinary. The main gap is the missing code signature, which leaves the publisher unconfirmed.
What We Detected
None of the 69 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this 64-bit Windows executable. That includes all 17 major antivirus engines that returned results. The file is unsigned. It has been submitted by 221 distinct sources since it was first seen on Jun 29, 2026.
Threat Behavior
The sandbox runs recorded no high-risk techniques, no injected processes and no network connections. The files written were Windows Error Reporting data, consistent with the program crashing during analysis. The binary is not packed and its entropy is normal.
What To Do Now
The evidence does not indicate malware. Because the program is unsigned, run it only if you obtained it from a source you trust, and keep your antivirus protection enabled.
Where this verdict could be wrong2 caveats
- The file is unsigned, so no publisher identity backs it.
- No complete contacted-host reputation result is available.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- No detections from any of the 73 antivirus engines, including every major antivirus engine.
- No high-risk techniques or network activity were seen in the sandbox runs.
- The file has been seen by over 200 distinct submitters over several months.
- The executable is not packed or obfuscated.
- The program is unsigned, so its publisher cannot be verified.
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 not needed or not applicable. See every source
Chapter 03
What it did in our test
It ran in our isolated test environment; no test environment rated what it did as risky.
Test run summary
Capture complete- 9sandbox rule tags
- 2spawned processes
- 0network contacts
- 18filesystem & mutex artifacts
What this file did when executed
This file was run in a sandbox and its runtime behaviour was observed.
Techniques observed in the sandbox
9MITRE ATT&CK techniques the sandbox mapped. Highlighted ones are rare in normal software; the others are common in legitimate programs too.
- T1027· Obfuscated code
- T1027.002· Obfuscated code
- T1055· Process injection
- T1082· System recon
- T1129· Loads modules
- T1497· Sandbox evasion
- T1518.001· Checks your AV
- T1542.003
- T1562.001· Disables security
Observed activity
Processes started
2Programs the file ran, with their command lines.
PAWGVERSE.exe"C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\PAWGVERSE.exe"PAWGVERSE.exe"C:\Users\user\Desktop\PAWGVERSE.exe"
Files
15Files the file created, changed or deleted.
- Written
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp - Written
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\05382096-c982-4c4f-8402-186e431c747c - Written
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue - Written
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\c67a8313-2f88-4dd0-8bdf-c080444a5a86 - Written
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive - Written
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\90fe1b69-643b-4673-a4e5-27596b26d2ee
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- Written
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue\0d98be72-771d-4b31-a65c-fc437462a4f0 - Written
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\0461f527-47b5-49ce-8ced-beed02e4574f - Written
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\9b1f8e94-d028-4ae9-bf20-cfcc05e3dfc4 - Written
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.046f2386-ddff-4d62-812f-aa197cdd5f90.tmp.dmp - Written
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.2cc4043d-b09f-491a-84c3-cea5b7bb5490.tmp.xml - Written
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.eeafb58d-bf33-4245-8be4-beb81cfab830.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml - Written
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\a7d12c16-01a3-4ef6-a0cd-dcabf392fb27 - Written
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\c256fbad-aaad-4993-b084-9befe66a4d34 - Written
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\e0b4bf5d-5c13-48c9-aef9-eb851058792f
Registry and auto-start
1Settings the file changed, including ways to start again after a restart.
- Deleted
\REGISTRY\A\{d06f666d-d139-63dc-ba70-b791e6be6354}\Root\InventoryApplicationFile\PermissionsCheckTestKey
Mutexes
3Named locks a program uses so only one copy runs; malware families often reuse them.
\Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\Local\WERReportingForProcess6860\Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\InventorySynchronizationInventoryApplicationFileMutex7088\Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\Global\4ab44dbc-082f-4904-8b22-8eda64efffd8
Sandbox background — not the file
2The analysis machine's own processes and connections, recorded in every run.
- VM process
WerFault.exeC:\Windows\system32\WerFault.exe -u -p 4652 -s 508 - VM process
WerFault.exeC:\Windows\System32\WerFault.exe C:\Windows\system32\WerFault.exe -u -p 6860 -s 204
Files this sample writes at runtime
This file drops 2 children at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache. 2 have no saved verdict and were not checked; that is missing coverage, not a finding.
- 0b490a674a5f0f4824b6…8ca186Not checkedno saved verdict
- 3cbe7493afece9e7cd47…b80668Not checkedno saved verdict
Chapter 04
Technical details
None of the 69 antivirus engines that checked it flag it; no publisher signature.
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
- Sep 12, 2026, 3:47 PM UTC
- SHA-256
56601ac5bc2a95cc7013d05bfb5276a045951f6a7cbf88a2f9d72a068fd5a618- SHA-1
d3f6935b7b6dd569c181e4e3ba7684651fc442d5- MD5
fcd3e721f76747d306186ccc33a67fc0
About this file
PAWGVERSE.exe is a Win32 EXE file of 82.9 kB.
- Type and size
- Win32 EXE · 82.9 kB
- Signer
- UnsignedNo code signature.
- First seen
- Jun 29, 2026On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 221 distinct sources
- Packer
- None detected
- Entropy
- 5.80 of 8
First scanned Updated
Verdict history
- Suspicious
- Safeafter a re-check of the saved evidence
Ratings change when antivirus engines, our checks or MalwareTips staff learn more about a file.
Antivirus consensus
0 of 69 engines flagged this file
4 of the 73 engines returned no result for this file (file type not supported, or the scan did not finish), so they did not check it.
- Tier-117 engines0flagged
- Tier-235 engines0flagged
- Low-trust17 engines0flagged
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- AcronisClean
- AhnLab-V3Clean
- AlibabaClean
- alibabacloudClean
- ALYacClean
- Antiy-AVLClean
- APEXClean
- ArcabitClean
- AvastClean
- Avast-MobileNo result
- AVGClean
- AviraClean
- BitDefenderClean
- BitDefenderFalxNo result
- BkavClean
- CAT-QuickHealClean
- ClamAVClean
- CMCClean
- CrowdStrikeClean
- CTXClean
- CylanceClean
- CynetClean
- DeepInstinctClean
- DrWebClean
- ElasticClean
- EmsisoftClean
- ESET-NOD32Clean
- F-SecureClean
- FortinetClean
- GDataClean
- GoogleClean
- GridinsoftClean
- huorongClean
- JiangminClean
- K7AntiVirusClean
- K7GWClean
- KasperskyClean
- KingsoftClean
- LionicClean
- MalwarebytesClean
- MaxSecureClean
- McAfeeDClean
- MicrosoftClean
- MicroWorld-eScanClean
- NANO-AntivirusClean
- PaloaltoClean
- PandaClean
- RisingClean
- SangforClean
- SentinelOneClean
- SophosClean
- SUPERAntiSpywareClean
- SymantecClean
- SymantecMobileInsightNo result
- TACHYONClean
- tehtrisClean
- TencentClean
- TrapmineClean
- TrellixENSClean
- TrendMicroClean
- TrendMicro-HouseCallClean
- TrustlookNo result
- VaristClean
- VBA32Clean
- VIPREClean
- VirITClean
- ViRobotClean
- WebrootClean
- XcitiumClean
- YandexClean
- ZillyaClean
- ZoneAlarmClean
- ZonerClean
Signatures and behavior heuristics
Low-severity pattern matches — worth noting but not on their own cause for alarm.
VirusTotal's sandbox summary maps this run to MITRE T1055 (Process Injection), but no injected process of the sample's own was recorded (the analysis VM's own WMI adapter, crash handlers and Chrome updater are not counted). VirusTotal maps T1055 on about half of all files no engine flags, so the mapping alone is not evidence of injection.
EvidenceT1055 (sandbox MITRE mapping)
Section entropy & packers
No high-entropy executable section or known packer signature was detected. Data and resource sections can still have high entropy without indicating packed code.
How widely this file has been seen
Widely uploaded, but first seen within the last six months. No strong prior applies.
Chapter 05
Questions & answers
Short answers to the 6 questions people ask most about this file.
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