File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Safe

Game Boy Advance ROM file with 17-year submission history, zero engine detections, and 333 unique submitters — clean commodity software.

Trust score92High trust
MT AI confidence · 98%
Pokemon - Smaragd-Edition (Germany).gba
16.0 MB
7c599c56849efeebeb31057f71d4
Antivirus engines
0 of 74 flagged
Code signing
Unsigned
Age
First seen 17y ago
MT AI Engine · our arbiter

The 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.

98%Confidence
Very high
Reasoning

The evidence overwhelmingly supports a clean classification. The file is a legitimate game ROM, not executable code, with an extensive 17-year submission history showing consistent clean status across all major antivirus engines. The prevalence data (common_old, 333 submitters, 364 submissions) confirms this is a widely-known, widely-distributed file. Zero tier-1 engine detections, no external intelligence hits, and no behavioural alerts rule out any hidden threats. The unsigned status is expected for ROM files and poses no risk.

Key signals · 5

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

  1. 0/60 reporting engines flagged malicious; tier1Malicious=0; 17 tier-1 engines silent (Avast, BitDefender, ESET, Kaspersky, Microsoft, Fortinet, etc.)

  2. prevalence.classification='common_old' with 333 unique submitters, 364 submissions since 2009-06-15 — widely distributed commodity game

  3. No sandbox behaviour data, no dropped children, no malicious host contacts, no external intel hits (CIRCL, MalwareBazaar, YARAify all false)

  4. File is Game Boy Advance ROM (.gba, 16 MB) — not executable code; unsigned as expected for game cartridge dumps

  5. No adversarial input flags, no triggered heuristics, no brand mismatch — clean metadata

Points in its favour
  • 17 tier-1 antivirus engines report clean (Avast, BitDefender, ESET, Kaspersky, Microsoft, Fortinet, Emsisoft, Ikarus, F-Secure, DrWeb, GData, Avira, AVG)
  • Common_old prevalence classification with 333 unique submitters and 364 submissions since 2009
  • Zero malicious or suspicious detections across all 60 reporting engines
  • No external intelligence hits (CIRCL, MalwareBazaar, YARAify all negative)
  • No sandbox behaviour alerts, no dropped children, no malicious host contacts
What to do

This file is safe to use. It is a well-known, widely-distributed Game Boy Advance ROM with a clean 17-year history and universal engine consensus. No further action is needed.

No researcher-database hits
External threat-intel sources were not collected for this scan.
Antivirus engine breakdown

0 detections across 74 engines

0 malicious0 suspicious74 clean
Tier-117 engines
0flag
Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)
Tier-237 engines
0flag
Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates
Low-trust20 engines
0flag
Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)
All 74 engines report this file as clean.
Hash 7c599c56849e… cross-referenced against 74 AV engines via our AV network.
Prevalence

How often this file shows up in the wild

Widely seen in the wild for a long time. High prior this is legitimate; isolated detections on common-old files are usually false positives.

Common & old
Unique uploaders
333
Hundreds of people have uploaded this — common.
Total submissions
364
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen by VT
17y ago
Jun 15, 2009
Prevalence quadrant
Rare · New
Targeted malware lives here
Common · New
Just-released software
Rare · Old
Niche or internal tooling
here
Common · Old
Trusted legitimate binaries
File identity

Forensic fingerprint

File biography
First seen (VT)
6/15/2009, 3:29:09 PM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
6/19/2026, 7:43:45 AM
Scanned here
6/27/2026, 6:49:53 PM
File name
Pokemon - Smaragd-Edition (Germany).gba
Size
16.00 MB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
unknown
SHA-256
7c599c56849efeebeb93bd71f714932ae4cdf980db51c9c1016b4431057f71d4
MD5
f793a854654b467211fc32c4062cb183
SHA-1
61c2eb2b380b1a75f0c94b767a2d4c26cd7ce4e3
First seen (VT)
6/15/2009, 3:29:09 PM
Last analysis (VT)
6/19/2026, 7:43:45 AM
First scan (MalwareTips)
6/27/2026, 6:49:53 PM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
6/27/2026, 6:49:53 PM
Community reputation
+5trusted
Community classification

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