Is ventoy-1.1.17-linux.tar.gz safe?
No engine detected the archive, including 17 tier-1 products, and its substantial circulation has produced no corroborating malware intelligence.
The archive received no malicious or suspicious detections from 74 engines, with all 17 tier-1 engines reporting no detection. It has also circulated across 582 sources without known-malware, YARA, heuristic, or brand-mismatch signals, although no runtime analysis was completed.
7fb4ed08cef6a6b4d3…71e23cbbc43805Recommended next actions
Before opening or extracting
Open or extract it only when its sender or download source has been independently verified.
If you already opened or extracted it
Keep normal device protection enabled and stop if the file behaves unexpectedly.
Intelligence
The saved assessment, checked against the scan evidence and recorded coverage.
The reasoning behind this verdict
This section explains the evidence supporting the verdict and keeps conflicting or missing signals visible.
The archive received no malicious or suspicious detections from 74 engines, with all 17 tier-1 engines reporting no detection. It has also circulated across 582 sources without known-malware, YARA, heuristic, or brand-mismatch signals, although no runtime analysis was completed.
Static scanning found no detections across 74 antivirus engines, including 17 tier-1 products. The archive has been submitted 666 times by 582 sources, providing meaningful exposure rather than relying on a single obscure submission. Known-malware databases and researcher-authored YARA coverage produced no matches, and no heuristic or brand-conflict indicators fired. Code-signing absence is neutral because signing is not applicable to the GZIP container itself. No sandbox run or complete contacted-host reputation check is available, so the conclusion is based on strong static consensus and prevalence evidence.
What We Detected
No malicious or suspicious results were reported by any of 74 antivirus engines. All 17 tier-1 engines, including Avast, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Kaspersky, and Microsoft, reported no detection. No MalwareBazaar record, CIRCL reference, YARA rule, triggered heuristic, or brand mismatch was associated with this hash.
Threat Behavior
No completed sandbox observation is available because behaviour is null. The archive contains ELF files, but there is no runtime evidence showing malicious execution, dropped payloads, persistence, or network activity. A contacted-host reputation cross-check was not completed or saved, so no claim about network cleanliness can be made.
What To Do Now
Prefer a download obtained directly from the project's official release channel and verify its SHA-256 hash where the publisher provides one. Keep endpoint protection enabled when extracting or running the included files.
Where this verdict could be wrong2 caveats
- behaviour=null, so there is no completed runtime observation of the ELF content inside the archive.
- contactedHosts=null, meaning no complete host-reputation result is available.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- 0/74 engines reported malicious or suspicious results.
- 17/17 tier-1 engines reported no detection.
- 582 unique sources submitted the file 666 times.
- externalIntel.malwareBazaar.hit=false and externalIntel.yaraify.ruleCount=0.
- triggeredHeuristics contains no fired rules.
- The GZIP bundle contains executable ELF content.
- No completed sandbox runtime observation is available.
- No complete contacted-host reputation result is available.
Use the archive if it came from the official Ventoy release channel, and verify SHA-256 7fb4ed08cef6a6b4d39dd19260d8c80291a78dfdf9af7d461571e23cbbc43805 when an official checksum is available. Keep endpoint protection enabled.
Coverage & freshness
Complete means the check returned a usable result. It does not mean the file is safe.
Antivirus
Complete0 of 74 engines flagged the file.
Sandbox
PartialRuntime data is present, but no completed sandbox environment is recorded.
Network
Not runNo contacted-host reputation check is recorded.
No timestamp recordedYARA
CompleteRule evaluation completed with no recorded matches.
External intel
Complete3 of 3 independent reference sources completed.
Behavior
Plain-English impact first, then the observed runtime evidence.
Runtime behavior was not available
The report does not treat a missing runtime observation as a clean result.
Detection & Forensics
Consensus, attribution, signatures, code structure, prevalence, and identity.
Evidence integrity
Chain of custody for the facts preserved in this report.
- 0rule hits recorded
- 0 / 74engines flagged
- 582sources in submission history
Why these facts are shown
Each statement identifies whether it was directly recorded or derived from saved scan facts.
- 01
0 of 74 antivirus engines flagged the file.
Verdict inputView chapterProvenanceObservedSourceAntivirus analysisObserved at - 02
No completed runtime observation is available for this file.
ProvenanceDerivedSourceRuntime coverageObserved at - 03
The hash has been submitted 666 times from 582 sources.
ProvenanceDerivedSourceSaved report factsObserved at
Detection sources at a glance
The available sources did not agree on a named threat category.
MalwareBazaar, YARAify, and CIRCL hashlookup completed and returned no entries for this hash.
YARA rules
No matchesThe rule pass completed without a saved public match.
0 of 74 engines flagged this file
View all 74 engine results
PE structure
Not applicablePE structure analysis applies to Windows executable formats, not this file type.
How widely this file has been seen
Moderate prevalence — neither rare nor common. No strong prior applies.
Fingerprint and provenance
- File name
- ventoy-1.1.17-linux.tar.gz
- Format
- GZIP
- Code signing
- Not applicable to this file type
- Size
- 19.4 MB
- Last analyzed
- Sep 22, 2026, 12:37 AM UTC
7fb4ed08cef6a6b4d39dd19260d8c80291a78dfdf9af7d461571e23cbbc43805Safety & FAQ
Complete recovery guidance and answers for the next decision.
What to do now
This file appears low risk based on the evidence available now.
- Recovery step 01
Open or extract it only when its sender or download source has been independently verified.
- Recovery step 02
A clean result reduces known risk, but it cannot guarantee that every new or targeted threat has been detected.
- Recovery step 03
Keep your antivirus and Windows updates switched on so you stay protected.
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