Is Player (1).exe safe?

Player (1).exe appears safe. 73 of 76 antivirus engines report it clean, with only 3 low-confidence detections that read as false positives. As a habit, only run files you downloaded from the official source, since attackers sometimes distribute trojanised copies of legitimate software under the same name.

What is Player (1).exe?

Player (1).exe is a Windows executable program, about 154 KB. 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).

How many antivirus engines detected Player (1).exe?

3 of 76 antivirus engines flagged Player (1).exe, 3 of them as outright malicious. A small number of detections can include false positives, so we weigh which engines flagged it and what else the file does, not just the raw count.

What is the SHA-256 hash of Player (1).exe?

The SHA-256 hash of Player (1).exe is 62917efbf880f3b23a563ee2445fc6334b73265f00d0e651d6b239dd71a5f9d7, and its MD5 is 3c81c3788e4b403b706ddb0a4dfbde95. 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.

Is it safe to run Player (1).exe?

Based on this scan, yes — Player (1).exe 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.

How up to date is this analysis of Player (1).exe?

This report reflects the scan run on May 9, 2026. Because a file's hash never changes, the identity of Player (1).exe 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.

File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine

Our call

Safe

Item: Player (1).exe
Rating: 4.5
Author: MalwareTips File Scanner

Unsigned media player exe flagged only by low-trust engines; all tier-1 engines clean, behaviour shows benign CDN contacts and no offensive actions.

Trust score82Moderate trust

Player (1).exe

153.5 KB

62917efbf880f3b23a…dd71a5f9d7

Antivirus engines

3 of 76 flagged

Code signing

Unsigned

Age

First seen 1y ago

MT AI Engine · Verdict analysis

The reasoning behind this verdict

The MT AI Engine weighs every signal from this scan — antivirus detections, sandbox behaviour, code signing, prevalence and historical matches — to reach a single, evidence-based verdict.

80%Confidence

High

Reasoning

Dominant signal is low-trust-only flagging with full tier-1 consensus on clean. Unsigned status and rarity add caution, but zero offensive MITRE techniques, no malicious sandbox verdict, and CDN IP contacts outweigh the direct-IP heuristic. Dropped children unknown but not malicious. Overall FP shape prevails.

Key signals · 4

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

3/72 engines malicious, tier1Malicious=0, onlyLowTrustFlagging=true
contactedIps includes CDN IPs (20.69.140.28 Azure, 23.196.193.245 Fastly) via behaviour.contactedIps
triggeredHeuristics 'MalwareTips.Synth.DirectIpC2' fired but no offensiveTechniques
tier1FamilyConsensus.family=null, agreeingEngines=0

Points in its favour

tier1Malicious=0, 17 tier1 clean
offensiveCount=0, no malicious sandbox
no malicious contacted hosts or children
no externalIntel or YARAify hits

Points against

unsigned executable
rare_old prevalence (3 submissions)
direct IP contacts (6 IPs, no DNS)
generic filename 'Player (1).exe'
reputation score 0
dropped children unknown

Recommended action

This file is safe based on our analysis. Run it if trusted source, but scan with updated security software and observe network activity.

What to do now

This file looks safe based on everything we checked.

This file is safe to use.
Good habit: only download files from the official website or an app store.
Keep your antivirus and Windows updates switched on so you stay protected.

Sources disagree

1 contradiction resolved by the scoring engine

Only low-trust / heuristic engines flagged this file

3 engines from the heuristic / generic-AI set flagged it. No tier-1 engine agreed.

Verdict treated these as likely false positives.

Runtime behaviour

What this file did when executed

This file was detonated in 1 sandbox and its runtime behaviour was observed.

MITRE ATT&CK

Adversary techniques mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

T1018T1027· Obfuscated codeT1056.001· KeyloggingT1057· Lists programsT1059· Runs commandsT1063T1070.004· Covers its tracksT1071· Remote server (C2)T1082· System reconT1095· Custom networkT1129· Loads modulesT1202T1518.001· Checks your AVT1573T1574.002· Execution hijack

Spawned processes

$(unnamed)

"C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\Player.exe"

$(unnamed)

C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c cls

$(unnamed)

%SAMPLEPATH%\Player.exe

$(unnamed)

C:\Windows\System32\UI0Detect.exe

$(unnamed)

C:\Program Files\Google2344_802084169\bin\updater.exe

$(unnamed)

"C:\Users\user\Desktop\Player.exe"

$(unnamed)

C:\Windows\System32\conhost.exe C:\Windows\system32\conhost.exe 0xffffffff -ForceV1

$(unnamed)

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c cls

+5 more processes captured.

Network activity

IP addresses7

192.168.0.15
20.69.140.28
23.196.193.245
20.99.133.109
184.27.218.92
23.46.216.136
23.48.99.4

Filesystem & mutexes

Files written8

C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Packages\MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\EBWebView\Crashpad
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Packages\MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\EBWebView\Crashpad\attachments
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Packages\MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\EBWebView\Crashpad\reports
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Packages\MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\EBWebView\Default\Local Storage\leveldb\LOG
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Packages\MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\EBWebView\Default\Network\Cookies

+3 more

Mutexes created2

\Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\Local\SessionImmersiveColorMutex
\Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\mfx_d3d_mutex

Dropped payload

Files this sample writes at runtime

This file drops 2 children at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache.

2 unseen

4f53cda18c2baa0c0354…02b945Never scanned
never seen before
96ea12b4d524e56dd2a3…3f595eNever scanned
never seen before

No researcher-database hits

External threat-intel sources were not collected for this scan.

Signature matches

YARA & heuristic rule matches

One or more medium-severity heuristic rules matched. Not definitive, but the patterns match known malware behaviour.

1 synthesis

MITRE ATT&CK profile

C2× 1

MalwareTips synthesis rules

Our own detection rules, applied to the scan data and sandbox behaviour

DirectIpC2
T1071
medium
Sample contacted 6 external IP address(es) and zero domains. Benign software virtually always uses DNS; no-DNS direct-IP C2 is a strong malware indicator because it bypasses reputation systems and dodges domain-based blocklists.
Evidence
20.69.140.28 · 23.196.193.245 · 20.99.133.109

Antivirus engine breakdown

3 detections across 76 engines

3 malicious0 suspicious73 clean

Tier-117 engines

0flag

Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)

Tier-241 engines

0flag

Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates

Low-trust18 engines

3flag

Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)

APEX

malicious

Malicious

Bkav

malicious

W64.AIDetectMalware

MaxSecure

malicious

Trojan.Malware.300983.susgen

Hash 62917efbf880… cross-referenced against 76 AV engines via our AV network.

PE forensics

Section entropy & packers

Section-level entropy and packer detection from the PE header. Nothing suspicious here — entropy is within the normal range for unpacked code.

Unpacked

Section entropy6 sections

.text

6.31

.rdata

5.43

.data

3.84

.pdata

5.20

.rsrc

4.72

.reloc

3.82

0.0Packed threshold 7.28.0

Prevalence

How widely this file has been seen

Rarely uploaded, but has been around for a while. Often niche legitimate software or old internal tooling; not a strong malware signal on its own.

Rare & old

Unique uploaders

Very few people have ever uploaded this — rare.

Total submissions

Includes repeat uploads by the same source.

First seen

1y ago

May 20, 2025

Prevalence quadrant

Rare · New

Targeted malware lives here

Common · New

Just-released software

here

Rare · Old

Niche or internal tooling

Common · Old

Trusted legitimate binaries

File identity

Forensic fingerprint

File biography

First seen (VT)

5/20/2025, 10:18:52 PM

First seen (MalwareBazaar)

—

Last analysis (VT)

6/26/2025, 12:04:13 AM

Scanned here

5/9/2026, 11:50:27 PM

File name: Player (1).exe
Size: 153.5 KB
MIME type: (unknown)
Detected type: Win32 EXE
SHA-256: 62917efbf880f3b23a563ee2445fc6334b73265f00d0e651d6b239dd71a5f9d7
MD5: 3c81c3788e4b403b706ddb0a4dfbde95
SHA-1: debabe600b93d3f9a3970f240136dbca648870b5
PE imphash: f89c2f3bdca8cfb6a2e03d3121b871bc
First seen (VT): 5/20/2025, 10:18:52 PM
Last analysis (VT): 6/26/2025, 12:04:13 AM
First scan (MalwareTips): 5/9/2026, 11:50:27 PM
Last scan (MalwareTips): 5/9/2026, 11:50:27 PM

Behavior tags

64bitsdetect-debug-environmentpeexe

Frequently asked

Safety FAQ

Common questions about Player (1).exe, answered from the scan data above.

Player (1).exe appears safe. 73 of 76 antivirus engines report it clean, with only 3 low-confidence detections that read as false positives. As a habit, only run files you downloaded from the official source, since attackers sometimes distribute trojanised copies of legitimate software under the same name.
Player (1).exe is a Windows executable program, about 154 KB. 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).
3 of 76 antivirus engines flagged Player (1).exe, 3 of them as outright malicious. A small number of detections can include false positives, so we weigh which engines flagged it and what else the file does, not just the raw count.
The SHA-256 hash of Player (1).exe is 62917efbf880f3b23a563ee2445fc6334b73265f00d0e651d6b239dd71a5f9d7, and its MD5 is 3c81c3788e4b403b706ddb0a4dfbde95. 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 — Player (1).exe 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 May 9, 2026. Because a file's hash never changes, the identity of Player (1).exe 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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