File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is pacman.
A small ZIP archive first seen on Feb 28, 2018 that none of the 66 antivirus engines that checked it flagged, with no malicious database or rule matches against it.
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Moderate evidence · No engine flags it, but no publisher signature confirms who made it.
No action is needed beyond ordinary caution: keep your antivirus protection enabled and scan the extracted files if you plan to run anything inside the archive.
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 66 flagged
- Flagged 0
- No detection 66
- No result 10
- Code signing Not applicable
- Test run Not run
- First seen 8y ago
Chapter 02
Why we think so
2 points against it and 3 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
None of the 66 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this ZIP archive, and 18 high-reliability engines analysed it without a detection. It has been in circulation since Feb 28, 2018 and has been submitted by 26 distinct sources, and no malware reference database or behaviour rule matched it. Nothing in the evidence points to a threat.
The file is a small ZIP archive of about 13 KB, first seen on Feb 28, 2018 and submitted by 26 distinct sources since then. Across 66 engines that returned a result, none raised a detection or even a suspicious verdict, including 18 of the higher-reliability engines, and no engine named a family. Reference lookups in both malware-sample sharing databases came back empty, and no malware-specific rule matched the bytes we hold. There is no code signature to weigh, which is normal for an archive, but also no hostile network history, dropped-file verdict, brand conflict or behaviour rule pointing the other way. The one real gap is that the archive's contents were never unpacked by our own analysis, so the clean result rests on the engines that scanned it rather than on a file-by-file inventory. Given the absence of any detection, listing or rule match on a file that has circulated widely for years, the balance of evidence supports a benign read.
What We Detected
The sample is a 13.5 KB ZIP archive named for the arcade game Pac-Man. It has been in circulation since Feb 28, 2018 and has been submitted from 26 distinct sources. Nothing was detected: 0 of the 66 antivirus engines that checked it flagged it, 66 returned an explicit clean result, and 18 of the higher-reliability engines were among those reporting no problem. No engine produced a suspicious or potentially-unwanted label either.
Threat Behavior
There is no observation from the test run for this file and it was not opened for our own static inspection, so we cannot describe contents or behaviour inside the archive — that information is simply not part of the picture. Against that, the external picture is uniformly empty: no malware-sample database entry, no reference-database entry, and no malware-specific detection rule matched the bytes. Archives like this usually carry a small game and its assets; at 13 KB it is far too small to hold much beyond a script or a launcher plus a few data files.
What To Do Now
Nothing about this archive warrants a removal. If you plan to use it, keep your antivirus protection switched on and let it scan the extracted files, then run anything executable inside only if you trust where the archive came from. Because the archive itself is the container rather than the program, a quick scan after extraction is the useful final check.
Where this verdict could be wrong2 caveats
- The archive's contents were never opened by our own analysis, so individual files inside were not examined directly; the clean result rests on the engines that scanned the archive and whatever they could unpack, not on an inventory of what it contains.
- No observation from the test run exists for this sample, so how anything inside would behave on execution is unknown rather than shown to be harmless.
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 66 antivirus engines that checked it flagged the file, and 18 high-reliability engines reported it clean.
- No malware reference database or sample-sharing database lists this file, and no malware-specific detection rule matched it.
- It has circulated since Feb 28, 2018 with 26 distinct sources submitting it, which is typical of ordinary long-lived downloads rather than targeted malware.
- The archive's contents were not examined directly in our own analysis, so what it actually contains is unverified even though no engine flagged it.
- No observation from the test run was recorded, so how anything inside would behave when executed is not known.
6 sources checked · 4 complete · 1 not run · 1 not needed or not applicable. See every source
Chapter 03
Technical details
None of the 66 antivirus engines that checked it flag it.
Sources checked
Every check behind this verdict
6 sources checked · 4 complete · 1 not run · 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
- Nov 6, 2026, 11:35 PM UTC
- SHA-256
59b3b582a61466c7f8c4a043194fa84bd9ca24fdab623d9085edcd1b9e3a8bec- SHA-1
072a3ea5db7ec0d78400e3175f0868e9a71e1b83- MD5
ed0ae378434daf3282fe838504bc0dce
About this file
pacman.zip is a ZIP file of 13.5 kB.
- Type and size
- ZIP · 13.5 kB
- Signer
- Not applicable
- First seen
- Feb 28, 2018On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 26 distinct sources
First scanned
Antivirus consensus
0 of 66 engines flagged this file
10 of the 76 engines returned no result for this file (file type not supported, or the scan did not finish), so they did not check it.
- Tier-118 engines0flagged
- Tier-234 engines0flagged
- Low-trust14 engines0flagged
View all 76 engine results
- AcronisClean
- AhnLab-V3Clean
- AlibabaClean
- alibabacloudClean
- ALYacClean
- Antiy-AVLClean
- APEXNo result
- ArcabitClean
- AvastClean
- Avast-MobileClean
- AVGClean
- AviraClean
- BaiduClean
- BitDefenderClean
- BitDefenderFalxNo result
- BkavClean
- CAT-QuickHealClean
- ClamAVClean
- CMCClean
- CrowdStrikeClean
- CTXClean
- CylanceNo result
- CynetClean
- DeepInstinctNo result
- DrWebClean
- ElasticNo result
- EmsisoftClean
- ESET-NOD32Clean
- F-SecureClean
- FortinetClean
- GDataClean
- GoogleClean
- GridinsoftClean
- huorongClean
- IkarusClean
- JiangminClean
- K7AntiVirusClean
- K7GWClean
- KasperskyClean
- KingsoftClean
- LionicClean
- MalwarebytesClean
- MaxSecureClean
- McAfeeDClean
- MicrosoftClean
- MicroWorld-eScanClean
- NANO-AntivirusClean
- PaloaltoNo result
- PandaClean
- RisingClean
- SangforClean
- SentinelOneNo result
- SkyhighClean
- SophosClean
- SUPERAntiSpywareClean
- SymantecClean
- SymantecMobileInsightNo result
- TACHYONClean
- tehtrisNo result
- TencentClean
- TrapmineNo result
- TrellixENSClean
- TrendMicroClean
- TrendMicro-HouseCallClean
- TrustlookClean
- VaristClean
- VBA32Clean
- VIPREClean
- VirITClean
- ViRobotClean
- WebrootClean
- XcitiumClean
- YandexClean
- ZillyaClean
- ZoneAlarmClean
- ZonerClean
How widely this file has been seen
Moderate prevalence — neither rare nor common. No strong prior applies.
Chapter 04
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