Is SL Defeat v5.3.5.rar safe?
No engine detections or threat-intelligence matches were found, and this decade-old RAR archive has broad historical prevalence across 106 independent sources.
The archive received no malicious or suspicious detections from 75 engines, including no tier-1 alerts. Its long history and 106-source prevalence further reduce concern, although no runtime analysis was completed and files inside the archive should still be scanned after extraction.
69bfeb44f91098ce4c…b2068a7a30cf76Recommended next actions
Before opening or extracting
Open or extract it only when its sender or download source has been independently verified.
If you already opened or extracted it
Keep normal device protection enabled and stop if the file behaves unexpectedly.
Intelligence
The saved assessment, checked against the scan evidence and recorded coverage.
The reasoning behind this verdict
This section explains the evidence supporting the verdict and keeps conflicting or missing signals visible.
The archive received no malicious or suspicious detections from 75 engines, including no tier-1 alerts. Its long history and 106-source prevalence further reduce concern, although no runtime analysis was completed and files inside the archive should still be scanned after extraction.
None of 75 antivirus engines flagged the archive, and 15 tier-1 engines reported no detection. The sample has been known since 2016 and was submitted 127 times by 106 distinct sources, which is inconsistent with a newly emerging threat. Research feeds supplied no MalwareBazaar, CIRCL, or YARAify corroboration. Code-signing evidence is not applicable to a RAR container. No sandbox execution or complete contacted-host reputation result is available, so the conclusion does not establish the safety of every archived component independently.
What We Detected
The RAR archive produced 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections across 75 engines. Avast, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Kaspersky, Microsoft, and other tier-1 products reported no detection, and no engine supplied a malware-family label.
Threat Behavior
No completed sandbox run is available, so runtime behavior was not observed. The archive has been known since 2016, with 127 submissions from 106 distinct sources, and no corroborating CIRCL, MalwareBazaar, or YARAify match was found. No complete contacted-host reputation result is available.
What To Do Now
Keep endpoint protection enabled and scan the extracted contents before opening or running them. Obtain the archive from a trusted source, and treat unexpected executables, scripts, or password-protected nested archives with additional caution.
Where this verdict could be wrong3 caveats
- behaviour=null, so the archive and any extracted contents were not observed executing.
- contactedHosts=null, meaning no complete host-reputation result is available.
- Signing cannot provide publisher assurance because signing.applicable=false for this RAR archive.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- 0/75 engines reported a malicious or suspicious result.
- engines.tier1Malicious=0, with 15 tier-1 engines reporting no detection.
- Observed since 2016 across 106 sources and 127 submissions.
- No MalwareBazaar, CIRCL, or YARAify threat-intelligence hit.
- No completed runtime observation is available for the archive or its extracted contents.
- No complete contacted-host reputation cross-check is available.
- RAR containers can conceal components that require separate scanning after extraction.
Keep security protection enabled and scan all extracted files before opening them. Prefer a trusted download source, especially if the archive contains executable or script files.
Coverage & freshness
Complete means the check returned a usable result. It does not mean the file is safe.
Antivirus
Complete0 of 75 engines flagged the file.
Sandbox
PartialRuntime data is present, but no completed sandbox environment is recorded.
Network
Not runNo contacted-host reputation check is recorded.
No timestamp recordedYARA
CompleteRule evaluation completed with no recorded matches.
External intel
Complete3 of 3 independent reference sources completed.
Behavior
Plain-English impact first, then the observed runtime evidence.
Runtime behavior was not available
The report does not treat a missing runtime observation as a clean result.
Detection & Forensics
Consensus, attribution, signatures, code structure, prevalence, and identity.
Evidence integrity
Chain of custody for the facts preserved in this report.
- 0rule hits recorded
- 0 / 75engines flagged
- 106sources in submission history
Why these facts are shown
Each statement identifies whether it was directly recorded or derived from saved scan facts.
- 01
0 of 75 antivirus engines flagged the file.
Verdict inputView chapterProvenanceObservedSourceAntivirus analysisObserved at - 02
The hash has a long, established submission history across 106 sources.
Verdict inputView chapterProvenanceDerivedSourceSubmission historyObserved at - 03
No completed runtime observation is available for this file.
ProvenanceDerivedSourceRuntime coverageObserved at
Detection sources at a glance
The available sources did not agree on a named threat category.
MalwareBazaar, YARAify, and CIRCL hashlookup completed and returned no entries for this hash.
YARA rules
No matchesThe rule pass completed without a saved public match.
0 of 75 engines flagged this file
View all 75 engine results
PE structure
Not applicablePE structure analysis applies to Windows executable formats, not this file type.
How widely this file has been seen
Widely seen in the wild for a long time. High prior this is legitimate; isolated detections on common-old files are usually false positives.
Fingerprint and provenance
- File name
- SL Defeat v5.3.5.rar
- Format
- RAR
- Code signing
- Not applicable to this file type
- Size
- 10.1 MB
- Last analyzed
- Oct 2, 2026, 5:50 AM UTC
69bfeb44f91098ce4ce56da62c7b6eb2a2d48d6d92828b0982b2068a7a30cf76Safety & FAQ
Complete recovery guidance and answers for the next decision.
What to do now
This file appears low risk based on the evidence available now.
- Recovery step 01
Open or extract it only when its sender or download source has been independently verified.
- Recovery step 02
A clean result reduces known risk, but it cannot guarantee that every new or targeted threat has been detected.
- Recovery step 03
Keep your antivirus and Windows updates switched on so you stay protected.
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