File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Safe

Plain text LICENSE file with zero engine detections and long benign submission history.

Trust score92High trust
MT AI confidence · 95%
LICENSE.txt
9.3 KB
7f6839a61ce892b79cb7fda8b45d
Antivirus engines
0 of 76 flagged
Code signing
Unsigned
Age
First seen 6y 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.

95%Confidence
Very high
Reasoning

Zero malicious detections from 62 reporting engines including 17 tier-1 engines eliminates any engine-based threat signal. The file is a plain text LICENSE document that has been submitted 767 times by 672 sources since 2020, placing it firmly in the common_old prevalence class. Sandbox execution recorded only ambient techniques with no malicious verdict and no external host contact. The single CIRCL reference hit lacks a knownMalicious flag, confirming it is a neutral database entry rather than a threat indicator.

Key signals · 4

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

  1. engines.malicious=0 and engines.tier1Malicious=0 across 62 reporting engines

  2. prevalence.classification=common_old (672 uniqueSources, 767 submissions)

  3. behaviour.offensiveCount=0 and behaviour.hasMaliciousSandboxVerdict=false

  4. externalIntel.circl.knownMalicious=null despite circl.hit=true

Points in its favour
  • Zero engine detections across all tiers
  • Long-established common_old prevalence
  • Clean sandbox behaviour with no malicious indicators
What to do

Safe to open or distribute; treat as a standard text license file.

Runtime behaviour

What this file did when executed

This file was detonated in 1 sandbox and its runtime behaviour was observed.

MITRE ATT&CK
4

Adversary techniques mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

T1027T1064T1071T1082
Spawned processes
1
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\System32\wscript.exe C:\Windows\System32\WScript.exe "C:\Users\user\Desktop\sample.vbs"
Filesystem & mutexes
2
Mutexes created2
  • Local\ZonesCacheCounterMutex
  • Local\ZonesLockedCacheCounterMutex
External threat intelligence

1 corroborating signal from researcher-curated sources

CIRCL hashlookup HIT·known-good reference DB·trust 50/100View on CIRCL
RDS.db· fileLicenseTxt
Cross-referenced against MalwareBazaar (abuse.ch), YARAify, and the CIRCL hashlookup reference DB.
Antivirus engine breakdown

0 detections across 76 engines

0 malicious0 suspicious76 clean
Tier-117 engines
0flag
Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)
Tier-238 engines
0flag
Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates
Low-trust21 engines
0flag
Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)
All 76 engines report this file as clean.
Hash 7f6839a61ce8… cross-referenced against 76 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
672
Hundreds of people have uploaded this — common.
Total submissions
767
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen by VT
6y ago
Sep 19, 2020
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)
9/19/2020, 11:50:19 PM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
2/21/2026, 11:28:40 AM
Scanned here
7/4/2026, 5:55:24 PM
File name
LICENSE.txt
Size
9.3 KB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
Text
SHA-256
7f6839a61ce892b79c6549e2dc5a81fdbd240a0b260f8881216b45b7fda8b45d
MD5
31c5a77b3c57c8c2e82b9541b00bcd5a
SHA-1
153d4bc14e3a2c1485006f1752e797ca8684d06d
First seen (VT)
9/19/2020, 11:50:19 PM
Last analysis (VT)
2/21/2026, 11:28:40 AM
First scan (MalwareTips)
7/4/2026, 5:55:24 PM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
7/4/2026, 5:55:24 PM
Behavior tags
known-distributoridlelong-sleepstext
Community classification

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