File scan report
Verdict Suspicious
Is Cabal Online VIP_
An unsigned, heavily protected DLL posing as a game add-on draws 16 detections from 75 engines, yet no engine names a real malware family and it was never run for us to confirm.
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Why Suspicious? 16 antivirus engines flag it and one of our detection rules matched it.
Moderate evidence · More than one sign points to a problem, but nothing confirms it is harmful.
Do not run or load this DLL. Keep your security software and any game anti-cheat protection switched on, and delete the file unless you received it from a developer you personally trust who can supply a signed build.
What to do now5 steps
Some signs point to a problem, but nothing confirms it is harmful. Treat it with caution.
What to do
Don't use it unless you're sure where it came from.
Check where you got it: an unexpected attachment, a link someone sent you or a re-upload is a red flag.
If you can't confirm where it came from, delete it. If you need the program, download it again from the publisher's own website.
It is only 1 day old. If you're unsure, scan it again in a few days; antivirus engines often catch up on new files.
If you already used it
Stop using it, run a full scan with your antivirus and watch for unexpected behavior or security alerts.
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Antivirus results
16 of 70 flagged
- Flagged 16
- No detection 54
- No result 5
- Code signing Unsigned
- Test run Not run
- First seen 1d ago
Chapter 02
Why we think so
6 points against it and 3 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
16 of the 70 antivirus engines that checked it flag this DLL, including two major ones, and its code is wrapped in a commercial protector with no signature — a common shape for loaders and cheat payloads. But every label is generic machine-learning or heuristic, none of the larger engines names a family, and we have no executed behaviour or contacted-site result to confirm the risk. Treat it as untrusted rather than verified malware.
The file is an unsigned 64-bit DLL that arrives as a supposedly game-related add-on, and it is small in distribution terms: a single submitter, first seen on Nov 5, 2026, with no established history. Its code sections sit at very high entropy and it is wrapped in a commercial executable protector, which is why our partial static pass could not resolve the payload into anything readable. Sixteen of the 70 antivirus engines that checked it return a malicious verdict, spanning 15 independent vendors, and two of those come from major engines — but every label is a generic machine-learning or rule-based bucket such as Trojan:Win32/Wacatac or ML.Attribute.HighConfidence, with no agreement on a real family. That combination is enough to rule out treating the file as trustworthy, and not enough to pin a specific malware family on it. BitDefender, ESET, Avast, Avira and several other large engines found nothing, and there is no database listing, no malware-specific rule match and no executed behaviour to settle the question. With no observation from the test run and no contacted-site check available, the evidence is contradictory rather than conclusive.
What We Detected
The binary is a 64-bit Windows DLL named after a game add-on, unsigned, and roughly 13 MB in size. Its code sections carry very high entropy (over 7.9 out of 8) and the file is wrapped in a commercial executable protector, so the real program logic is encrypted and unpacked only when it ran. Our own static look at the bytes was only partially successful: nothing decisive surfaced because the protected sections could not be read, and the only content it could identify was the ordinary PE structure.
Antivirus results are split. 16 of the 70 antivirus engines that checked it return a malicious verdict, covering 15 independent vendors, and two of those detections come from major engines. The labels are generic machine-learning or rule-based names — Trojan:Win32/Wacatac, ML.Attribute.HighConfidence, Static AI Malicious PE, a behaviour-like dropper label — with no engine naming a specific malware family. On the other side, BitDefender, ESET, Avast, AVG, Avira, G Data, Emsisoft, Fortinet and DrWeb all returned no detection.
Threat Behavior
Nothing was executed for us, so no behaviour has been observed: there is no record of dropped files, injected processes, network traffic or registry changes, and no contacted-site reputation result was produced. Anything said about intent therefore rests on the file's structure and the engine labels alone. The structural facts are worth noting: an unsigned DLL, protected specifically to resist inspection, distributed under a game-modification name by a single submitter with no history. That is a shape shared by game cheats, loaders and droppers, and protected unsigned binaries of unknown origin should always be treated as untrusted. The dropper-style label from one engine and the machine-learning detections from several others point the same way, but none of them identifies a concrete family, and the silence of several large engines cuts against a firm identification.
What To Do Now
Do not load this DLL into a game or system you care about. Keep your antivirus and any anti-cheat or security software enabled — never disable them to make a file like this work. If you did not deliberately obtain it from a developer you trust, delete it and scan the machine. If you believe it is a legitimate tool, submit it to the developer for a signed, unobfuscated build rather than running this one.
Where this verdict could be wrong3 caveats
- Most of the larger major antivirus engines stayed silent: BitDefender, ESET, Avast, AVG, Avira, G Data, Emsisoft, Fortinet and DrWeb all returned no detection, which is unusual for a well-known family.
- The two major hits are generic machine-learning buckets that also appear on harmless packed software, and no engine names a concrete malware family.
- No behavioural evidence exists either way: the file was never executed in our sandbox and no contacted-host check was completed, so the hostile signals are unconfirmed.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- Several large engines, including BitDefender, ESET, Avast, AVG, Avira, G Data, Emsisoft, Fortinet and DrWeb, returned no detection.
- No engine names a concrete malware family, and no malware-specific community rule matched the sample.
- It does not appear in the public malware-sharing database we check, and it does not match any known project release
- No digital signature at all, so there is no way to verify who built or shipped the file.
- The code is wrapped in a commercial protector with near-maximum entropy, deliberately resisting inspection and analysis.
- 16 of the 70 antivirus engines that checked it, spanning 15 independent vendors, return a malicious verdict, including two major engines.
- One engine labels the code as dropper-like behaviour, and several label it as machine-learning malicious.
- Submitted by a single source with no history, and it is not present in known-software reference databases.
- A DLL describing itself as a game add-on but unsigned and protected is a common delivery shape for cheats and loaders.
7 sources checked · 4 complete · 1 partial · 1 not run · 1 not needed or not applicable. See every source
Chapter 03
Technical details
16 of the 70 antivirus engines that checked it flag it; no publisher signature.
No risky structure found
We opened the uploaded Windows program in an isolated sandbox and read its structure without running it.
Checked on Nov 5, 2026 while the file was uploaded. MalwareTips deleted its copy afterwards; VirusTotal keeps the uploaded file.
Sources checked
Every check behind this verdict
7 sources checked · 4 complete · 1 partial · 1 not run · 1 not needed or not applicable. Complete means the check returned a usable result; it does not mean the file is safe.
Engines that flagged it 16
- Microsoft (major engine)Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!ml
- Symantec (major engine)ML.Attribute.HighConfidence
- BkavW32.Malware.393C0FBB
- CrowdStrikewin/malicious_confidence_90% (D)
- CylanceUnsafe
- CynetMalicious (score: 100)
- DeepInstinctMALICIOUS
- Elasticmalicious (high confidence)
File fingerprint
- Last analyzed
- Nov 5, 2026, 10:02 PM UTC
- SHA-256
7f584db94b84a517f4ffdcedc6c17b6920847e3e50744bf8436055ba95749918- SHA-1
adbbb6725cd4f0d2cd574d429112dfcae658e957- MD5
5e09dd061bbd8eecb5ad571f86b282bf
About this file
Cabal Online VIP_43.dll is a Win32 DLL file of 13.5 MB.
- Type and size
- Win32 DLL · 13.5 MB
- Signer
- UnsignedNo code signature.
- First seen
- Nov 5, 2026On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 1 sourceRarely seen: few people have submitted this exact file.
- Packer
- Themida/Winlicense 3.XX (DetectItEasy protector)Packing hides code; legitimate installers use it too.
- Entropy
- 7.95 of 8A code section is highly compressed or encrypted.
First scanned
Includes every engine result (75), 1 matched signature rule, PE section entropy and packers and how widely the file has been seen.
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