File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is vcredist_
The verified Microsoft signature, 0/70 detections, long-established prevalence, and five matching signer precedents strongly support this Visual C++ redistributable package.
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Strong evidence · A verified publisher signature, and no engine flags it.
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Antivirus results
0 of 70 flagged
- Flagged 0
- No detection 70
- No result 5
- Code signing Microsoft Corporation
- Test run Completed
- First seen 12y ago
Chapter 02
Why we think so
4 points against it and 5 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
The executable carries a verified Microsoft Corporation signature, and none of the 70 antivirus engines that checked it flagged it. Its extensive history since 2013, high prevalence, five consistent signer-based precedents, and lack of a malicious sandbox verdict outweigh generic YARA and behavioral hunting signals.
No antivirus engine flagged the sample, including the reporting major antivirus engines. The executable is signed and verified by Microsoft Corporation, a curated trusted publisher, and its signer history is overwhelmingly benign. It has circulated widely since 2013, which fits an established Visual C++ redistributable rather than a newly introduced impersonator. One sandbox recorded installer activity without issuing a malicious verdict, and none of ten inspected children was identified as malicious. Generic YARA matches and offensive MITRE mappings warrant acknowledgment, but they lack engine, family, file it created, or sandbox-verdict corroboration. No complete contacted-host reputation result was available.
What We Detected
The file is a verified Microsoft Corporation executable. The sample has been observed since 2013 across 3,709 sources and 19,866 submissions, and five signer-matched historical files received prior benign assessments.
Threat Behavior
One completed sandbox run mapped activity to T1055, T1134, T1543.003, and T1547.001, but it did not produce a malicious sandbox verdict. Ten files it created were inspected without any child being identified as malicious. Eight community YARA rules matched, including generic botnet-string and anti-debugging hunts, but no antivirus family consensus supports those matches. The observed IP contacts lack a complete saved host-reputation cross-check.
What To Do Now
Use this copy if its SHA-256 is 681be3e5ba9fd3da02c09d7e565adfa078640ed66a0d58583efad2c1e3cc4064 and Windows confirms the Microsoft Corporation signature. For future downloads, prefer Microsoft or the software vendor's official distribution channel and keep security software enabled.
Where this verdict could be wrong4 caveats
- 8 community YARA rules matched, including 'botnet_plaintext_c2' and 'HUNTING_SUSP_TLS_SECTION'; these generic hunting matches are not corroborated by antivirus detections.
- The sandbox's offensive-technique list includes T1055, T1134, T1543.003, and T1547.001, although no sandbox returned a malicious verdict.
- No contacted-host reputation result was saved, so the observed IP contacts did not receive a complete saved reputation cross-check.
- The signer-history record includes 1/18 historical samples marked malicious, preventing a perfectly clean publisher-history record.
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- 0/70 antivirus engines reported a malicious or suspicious result.
- Verified signature from Microsoft Corporation with trusted-publisher matching.
- Observed since 2013 with 3,709 sources and 19,866 submissions.
- Five of five signer-matched historical verdicts were safe.
- No malicious sandbox verdict and no malicious child among 10 inspected children.
- A count of 8 matching community YARA rules includes broad malware-hunting rules.
- Evidence from the test run maps activity to T1055, T1134, T1543.003, and T1547.001.
- Observed direct-IP traffic has no complete saved host-reputation cross-check.
- signing.signerStats records 1/18 historical Microsoft-signed samples as malicious.
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 partial. 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- 40sandbox rule tags
- 6spawned processes
- 5network contacts
- 40filesystem & mutex artifacts
Includes 40 mapped techniques, every process, file, registry and network entry and 10 dropped files.
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Technical details
None of the 70 antivirus engines that checked it flag it; signed by Microsoft Corporation.
Sources checked
Every check behind this verdict
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 partial. Complete means the check returned a usable result; it does not mean the file is safe.
File fingerprint
- Last analyzed
- Sep 11, 2026, 1:24 PM UTC
- SHA-256
681be3e5ba9fd3da02c09d7e565adfa078640ed66a0d58583efad2c1e3cc4064- SHA-1
1a5d93dddbc431ab27b1da711cd3370891542797- MD5
3c03562b5af9ed347614053d459d7778
About this file
vcredist_x64.exe is a Win32 EXE file of 7.2 MB.
- Type and size
- Win32 EXE · 7.2 MB
- Signer
- Microsoft CorporationValid code signature.
- First seen
- Nov 17, 2013On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 3,709 distinct sources
- Packer
- None detected
- Entropy
- 8.00 of 8
First scanned
Includes every engine result (75), 9 matched signature rules, PE section entropy and packers and how widely the file has been seen.
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