File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is VIRUSmaybe safe? Yes, no threats found.
None of the 66 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this Word document, a sandbox run came back clean, and it carries no macros, remote templates or embedded objects.
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Moderate evidence · No engine flags it, but no publisher signature confirms who made it.
Nothing here needs removing: open the document normally with your protection left on. If you were not expecting it, confirm with the sender before following any links inside it.
Good practice2 tips
We found nothing harmful in this file.
Open it only if you trust the person or website it came 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 9
- Code signing Not applicable
- Test run Completed
- First seen Today
Chapter 02
Why we think so
4 points against it and 4 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
No engine detected anything in this Word document, including 18 major antivirus engines such as Microsoft, Kaspersky, ESET and BitDefender. Our own inspection of the file found no macros, no remote template, no embedded objects and no exploit constructs, and the sandbox run produced no hostile activity. It only holds ordinary hyperlinks, so it looks like a routine document despite the odd file name.
Every one of the 66 antivirus engines that checked it was silent, and the major half of that field (Microsoft, Kaspersky, ESET, BitDefender, Fortinet, Avira and others) reported the document clean, which is unusual for a lure carrying malicious content. Our static analysis of the uploaded bytes found an ordinary Office Open XML container: no macros, no remote or injected template, no DDE field, no embedded executable, no Equation Editor object and no exploit hints. The only notable content is a pair of hyperlinks resolving through an email-marketing tracking service, with no direct IP links and no URLs pointing at an executable. The sandbox run recorded no processes, no injected processes, no persistence and no network contact from the sample, and its combined verdict was clean. A single source has submitted the file and it was first seen on Nov 7, 2026, so there is no history to lean on, but with zero detections, an inert document structure and clean observation from the test run there is nothing to build a hostile case from.
What We Detected
The file is a Word document (Office Open XML) of about 75 KB. None of the 66 antivirus engines that checked it in our network flagged it — no malicious verdict, no suspicious verdict, no generic rule on any engine. That includes 18 major antivirus engines such as Microsoft, Kaspersky, ESET, BitDefender, Fortinet, Avira, GData and Ikarus.
Our own inspection of the uploaded file found no active content at all: no macros, no external or injected template, no DDE field that could start a program, no embedded executable or OLE object, no Equation Editor object and no hint of a known document exploit. The document contains a pair of ordinary web links that route through an e-mail marketing tracking service; the addresses themselves are withheld here, and neither resolves directly to a program download or a raw IP address.
Threat Behavior
The file was run once in our sandbox environment and produced no hostile activity: no processes started, no process injection, no persistence, no registry changes recorded and no network contact from the sample itself. The combined sandbox verdict was clean.
Nothing matched in our malware reference databases or community rule sets, and no behaviour rule fired. The only weak point is history: the file was first seen on Nov 7, 2026 and has been submitted by a single source, so there is no wider track record to compare it against.
What To Do Now
Keep your antivirus and security software switched on and treat the document as an ordinary file. If you were not expecting it, confirm with the sender before clicking any links inside it, since links in documents are the usual way a legitimate-looking file is used to point recipients somewhere unexpected.
Where this verdict could be wrong3 caveats
- The document was first seen on Nov 7, 2026 and has been submitted by a single source, so there is no community track record behind it; a fresh document would look much the same in a first scan.
- The hyperlinks were inventoried but not followed, so where they finally lead was not confirmed.
- The file name is odd and describes no real content, which is unusual for ordinary business documents even though nothing hostile was found inside.
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, including 18 major antivirus engines such as Microsoft, Kaspersky, ESET and BitDefender.
- Our inspection found no macros, no remote template, no DDE field, no embedded objects and no exploit constructs in the document.
- No malware reference database or community rule set returned a match, and no behaviour rule fired.
- The sandbox run finished with a clean verdict and showed no process activity, persistence or network contact from the sample.
- The document has been submitted by a single source and was first seen on Nov 7, 2026, so there is almost no track record behind it.
- The file name is odd and does not describe what the document contains, which is unusual for ordinary business files.
- The document contains two hyperlinks that route through an e-mail marketing tracking service; their final destinations were not followed.
- No reputation result for the linked hosts was available, so the links were not independently checked.
7 sources checked · 6 complete · 1 not needed or not applicable. See every source
Chapter 03
What it did in our test
It ran in 1 isolated test; no test environment rated what it did as risky.
Test run summary
Capture complete- 1isolated sandbox run
- 0spawned processes
- 0network contacts
- 0filesystem & mutex artifacts
What this file did when executed
This file was detonated in 1 sandbox and its runtime behaviour was observed.
Sandbox verdicts
1- VT: CLEANclean
Chapter 04
Technical details
None of the 66 antivirus engines that checked it flag it.
No risky structure found
We opened the uploaded Office document in an isolated sandbox and read its structure without running it. For personal documents and media we show counts only.
2 links found. For a personal document only the counts are shown.
Checked on Nov 7, 2026 while the file was uploaded. MalwareTips deleted its copy afterwards; VirusTotal keeps the uploaded file.
Sources checked
Every check behind this verdict
7 sources checked · 6 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
- Nov 7, 2026, 12:35 PM UTC
- SHA-256
5c7012cfabcf22625e4e87724945aac43f2ae1c165ef0ed0370646d31f6266b4- SHA-1
43fdac10daa621ba5619375b3104db78f2db6509- MD5
72678115cc14f78140182c2a410143bd
About this file
VIRUSmaybe is an Office Open XML Document file of 76.5 kB.
- Type and size
- Office Open XML Document · 76.5 kB
- Signer
- Not applicable
- First seen
- Nov 7, 2026On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 1 sourceRarely seen: few people have submitted this exact file.
First scanned
Antivirus consensus
0 of 66 engines flagged this file
9 of the 75 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-235 engines0flagged
- Low-trust13 engines0flagged
View all 75 engine results
- AcronisClean
- AhnLab-V3Clean
- AlibabaClean
- alibabacloudClean
- ALYacClean
- Antiy-AVLClean
- APEXNo result
- ArcabitClean
- AvastClean
- Avast-MobileClean
- AVGClean
- AviraClean
- 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
- SentinelOneClean
- 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
Barely seen in the wild and first surfaced recently. That limits reputation evidence, but rarity alone is not proof of malware.
Chapter 05
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