Safe
Zero detections across 71 engines, clean sandbox behaviour, and medium prevalence support a benign classification.
6ba86018ac060effa7…a6f7bc5464The verdict, reasoned out.
Not a rules engine. The MT AI Engine reads every signal we collected, weighs them against history, and commits to an answer.
All 71 reporting engines returned clean results, including 17 tier-1 engines. Sandbox analysis recorded only standard Windows processes and no offensive MITRE techniques. The file shows medium prevalence over 481 days with no dropped malicious children or contacted malicious hosts. Filename and brand analysis raised no red flags. The combination of zero engine detections, clean behaviour, and established age points to a legitimate system component.
Each signal cites a concrete token from the evidence the arbiter saw — engine name, MITRE technique, signer string, or an exact count.
engines.malicious=0, tier1Malicious=0, onlyLowTrustFlagging=false
signing.signed=false with no brandMismatch.detected
behaviour.offensiveCount=0, hasMaliciousSandboxVerdict=false
prevalence.classification=medium, ageDays=481
- Zero malicious detections from 71 engines
- Clean sandbox behaviour with no offensive techniques
- Medium prevalence over 481 days
- No external intelligence hits
Treat the file as benign; no further action required unless the parent application is itself untrusted.
What this file did when executed
This file was detonated in 1 sandbox and its runtime behaviour was observed.
Adversary techniques mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- %WINDIR%\system32\tasks\microsoft\windows\softwareprotectionplatform\svcrestarttask
Files this sample writes at runtime
This file drops 1 child at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache.
- aec34e950ce0489d0191…5fdf4eNever scannednever seen before
0 detections across 75 engines
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.
How often this file shows up in the wild
Moderate prevalence — neither rare nor common. No strong prior applies.
Forensic fingerprint
- File name
- win32api.pyd
- Size
- 129.5 KB
- MIME type
- (unknown)
- Detected type
- Win32 DLL
- SHA-256
- 6ba86018ac060effa78e1597310c83408eb5c9f9cacdf86511c442a6f7bc5464
- MD5
- a8ee4d01df3cde6a0fed85c278b5ebb8
- SHA-1
- dc2ae0fbcc0e92e073e5224466690b95012ac761
- PE imphash
- bbbe7b98b1e617bc30d464da0788925b
- First seen (VT)
- 3/16/2025, 9:18:34 PM
- Last analysis (VT)
- 5/22/2026, 8:38:15 PM
- First scan (MalwareTips)
- 7/11/2026, 12:00:00 AM
- Last scan (MalwareTips)
- 7/11/2026, 12:00:00 AM
Safety FAQ
Common questions about win32api.pyd, answered from the scan data above.
- win32api.pyd appears safe. 75 of 75 antivirus engines report it clean. As a habit, only open files you downloaded from the official source, since attackers sometimes distribute trojanised copies of legitimate software under the same name.
- win32api.pyd is a file, about 130 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).
- None — all 75 antivirus engines we queried report win32api.pyd as clean. That's reassuring, though brand-new malware can briefly evade detection before vendors add signatures, so we also weigh the file's behaviour and reputation.
- The SHA-256 hash of win32api.pyd is 6ba86018ac060effa78e1597310c83408eb5c9f9cacdf86511c442a6f7bc5464, and its MD5 is a8ee4d01df3cde6a0fed85c278b5ebb8. 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 — win32api.pyd 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 July 11, 2026. Because a file's hash never changes, the identity of win32api.pyd 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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