File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is Pokemon -
Widely submitted 16-year-old GBA ROM with zero engine detections and clean sandbox behaviour.
Strong evidence · Widely seen for a long time, and nothing harmful found.
The file is safe to keep and run; no further action required.
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.
Reads the latest antivirus results for this file's hash. Nothing is uploaded.
Antivirus results
0 of 60 flagged
- Flagged 0
- No detection 60
- No result 15
- Code signing Not applicable
- Test run Completed
- First seen 16y ago
Chapter 02
Why we think so
0 points against it and 3 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
No antivirus engine flagged the file. It is a common, long-standing Pokémon ROM with no malicious indicators in sandbox or external-intel sources.
All 60 antivirus engines that checked it returned clean, including 17 major antivirus engines. The file has been submitted thousands of times since 2010 and shows only routine behaviour in its single sandbox run. No dropped malicious files it created or external-intel hits exist. The lone rule on direct-IP traffic is inconclusive without host reputation data.
What We Detected
75/60 engines clean; 17 major antivirus engines explicitly marked harmless. File is a 16 MB GBA ROM first seen in 2010.
Threat Behavior
One sandbox execution recorded routine Office-related activity and a single direct-IP connection; no offensive MITRE techniques, no malicious files it created, no persistence mechanisms.
What To Do Now
The file can be considered safe for use. Keep security software enabled as usual.
Where this verdict could be wrong1 caveat
- No contacted-host reputation result was saved — host-reputation cross-check incomplete; cannot confirm whether 52.110.2.131 is malicious.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- Zero engine detections across 75 scanners
- Long history with thousands of clean submissions
- No malicious sandbox verdict or files it created
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- 4sandbox rule tags
- 1spawned processes
- 1network contact
- 12filesystem & mutex artifacts
What this file did when executed
This file was run in a sandbox and its runtime behaviour was observed.
Techniques observed in the sandbox
4MITRE ATT&CK techniques the sandbox mapped. Highlighted ones are rare in normal software; the others are common in legitimate programs too.
- T1071· Application protocol
- T1082· System recon
- T1221
- T1573
Observed activity
Processes started
1Programs the file ran, with their command lines.
WINWORD.EXE"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16\WINWORD.EXE" "C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\document.doc" /q
Network contacts
11 host, listed as 1 address. Links show the host and path only.
- IP address
52.110.2.131
Files
7Files the file created, changed or deleted.
- Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\{9094D1BC-5F3B-4524-8DB1-1739122C3B86} - OProcSessId.dat - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\16.0\WebServiceCache\AllUsers\officeclient.microsoft.com\B52D25A9-CFB8-4E4F-8E14-686401596CE9 - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\16.0\winword.exe_Rules.xml - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates\Normal.dotm - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates\~$Normal.dotm - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\document.doc
Show all 7 entries for files
- Written
C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\~$cument.doc
Mutexes
5Named locks a program uses so only one copy runs; malware families often reuse them.
Local\10MU_ACBPIDS_S-1-5-5-0-144651Local\10MU_ACB10_S-1-5-5-0-144651Global\552FFA80-3393-423d-8671-7BA046BB5906Local\2BF388D5-6F8C-40A0-A7EE-996D005C4E14_Office16Local\F99C425F-9135-43ed-BD7D-396DE488DC53_Office16
Files this sample writes at runtime
This file drops 6 children at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache. 6 have no saved verdict and were not checked; that is missing coverage, not a finding.
- b235f76cc2cbc437a2ad…7845e1Not checkedno saved verdict
- 98e5b7239aaaaa661439…c36c3fNot checkedno saved verdict
- 97da3c982874ec87dcba…014346Not checkedno saved verdict
- 18896bfd8ccb21dfb3f7…08fa9bNot checkedno saved verdict
- e46f43faa5f92a1d5b91…2adca5Not checkedno saved verdict
- c88a0b907419a70c27ab…94aecfNot checkedno saved verdict
Chapter 04
Technical details
None of the 60 antivirus engines that checked it flag it.
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 7, 2026, 4:02 PM UTC
- SHA-256
729041b940afe031302d630fdbe57c0c145f3f7b6d9b8eca5e98678d0ca4d059- SHA-1
dd5945db9b930750cb39d00c84da8571feebf417- MD5
51901a6e40661b3914aa333c802e24e8
About this file
Pokemon - FireRed Version (USA, Europe) (Rev 1).gba is an unknown file of 16.8 MB.
- Type and size
- unknown · 16.8 MB
- Signer
- Not applicable
- First seen
- Jul 8, 2010On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 2,974 distinct sources
First scanned
Antivirus consensus
0 of 60 engines flagged this file
15 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-231 engines0flagged
- Low-trust11 engines0flagged
View all 75 engine results
- AcronisClean
- AhnLab-V3Clean
- AlibabaNo result
- alibabacloudClean
- ALYacClean
- Antiy-AVLClean
- APEXNo result
- ArcabitClean
- AvastClean
- Avast-MobileNo result
- 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
- GoogleNo result
- GridinsoftClean
- huorongClean
- IkarusClean
- JiangminClean
- K7AntiVirusClean
- K7GWClean
- KasperskyClean
- KingsoftClean
- LionicClean
- MalwarebytesClean
- MaxSecureClean
- McAfeeDClean
- MicrosoftClean
- MicroWorld-eScanClean
- NANO-AntivirusClean
- PaloaltoNo result
- PandaClean
- RisingClean
- SangforClean
- SentinelOneNo result
- SkyhighClean
- SophosClean
- SUPERAntiSpywareClean
- SymantecClean
- SymantecMobileInsightNo result
- TACHYONClean
- tehtrisNo result
- TencentClean
- TrapmineNo result
- TrellixENSClean
- TrendMicroClean
- TrendMicro-HouseCallClean
- TrustlookNo result
- VaristClean
- VBA32Clean
- VIPREClean
- VirITClean
- ViRobotClean
- WebrootNo result
- XcitiumClean
- YandexClean
- ZillyaClean
- ZoneAlarmClean
- ZonerClean
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.
Chapter 05
Questions & answers
Short answers to the 6 questions people ask most about this file.
Is Pokemon - FireRed Version (USA, Europe) (Rev 1).gba safe?
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