File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is VPKMerge.
Three generic detections lack major support, while five sandbox runs found no corroborated high-risk activity and the complete host check found no hostile contacts.
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Moderate evidence · No engine flags it, but no publisher signature confirms who made it.
Good practice2 tips
We found nothing harmful in this file.
Run it only if it came from the developer's own website or an official app store.
Keep your antivirus and Windows updates switched on.
No scanner can promise a file is 100% safe.
Antivirus results
3 of 71 flagged
- Flagged 3
- No detection 68
- No result 4
- Code signing Unsigned
- Test run Completed
- First seen 1mo ago
Chapter 02
Why we think so
3 points against it and 5 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
Only 3 of the 71 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this executable, and none of the 18 major antivirus engines identified malware or a named family. Five sandbox runs produced a combined clean result, with no named injection target, malicious child, packed code, or hostile contacted host, making false-positive detections the most likely explanation.
The three detections are generic and receive no support from the 18 major antivirus engines. Five completed sandbox runs contributed to a combined clean verdict, and no rare high-risk technique was corroborated. Although was mapped, no target process was recorded, so this does not establish process injection. The complete host-reputation check covered both recorded contacts and found no malicious or suspicious host; those contacts were also identified as analysis-environment background traffic. No malware-specific community rules, public malware-database listing, malicious child, or packing indicator provides independent confirmation. The file is unsigned and its bytes were not available for our static analysis, which limits confidence but does not outweigh the broader benign evidence.
What We Detected
Three of the 71 antivirus engines that checked it flagged the executable. DeepInstinct, APEX, and Bkav used generic labels, while none of the 18 major antivirus engines identified malware or agreed on a named family.
Threat Behavior
Five completed sandbox runs contributed to a combined clean verdict. Both recorded network contacts were analysis-environment background traffic, and the complete reputation check found neither malicious nor suspicious hosts. No malicious files it created, persistence indicators, malware-specific rules, public malware-database entry, or packing signs were present.
What To Do Now
The isolated generic detections most likely represent false positives. Because the executable is unsigned and its bytes were not available for our static analysis, obtain it from the expected source, verify its hash when the publisher supplies one, and keep security software enabled while using it.
Where this verdict could be wrong2 caveats
- DeepInstinct, APEX, and Bkav flagged the file, so the possibility of an emerging or uncommon threat cannot be dismissed completely.
- The executable is unsigned, and no completed static analysis of the uploaded bytes is available to establish its exact contents.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- None of the 18 major antivirus engines flagged the file.
- Five completed sandbox runs contributed to a combined clean verdict.
- No named injection target or other corroborated high-risk technique was observed.
- The complete reputation check found no malicious or suspicious host among the two recorded contacts.
- No malicious child, malware-specific community rule, public malware-database listing, or packing indicator was found.
- Three engines issued generic malware detections.
- The executable has no verified digital signature.
- The uploaded bytes were unavailable for an internal static inspection.
6 sources checked · all complete. See every source
Chapter 03
What it did in our test
It ran in 5 isolated tests; no test environment rated what it did as risky.
Test run summary
Capture complete- 5isolated sandbox runs
- 10sandbox rule tags
- 2spawned processes
- 0network contacts
- 7filesystem & mutex artifacts
What this file did when executed
This file was detonated in 5 sandboxes and its runtime behaviour was observed.
Sandbox verdicts
1- VT: CLEANclean
Techniques observed in the sandbox
10MITRE ATT&CK techniques the sandbox mapped. Highlighted ones are rare in normal software; the others are common in legitimate programs too.
- T1027· Obfuscated code
- T1027.002· Obfuscated code
- T1055· Process injection
- T1071· Application protocol
- T1082· System recon
- T1083· Scans your files
- T1129· Loads modules
- T1134
- T1497· Sandbox evasion
- T1574· Execution hijack
Observed activity
Processes started
2Programs the file ran, with their command lines.
program.exe"C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\program.exe"software.exe"C:\Users\user\Desktop\software.exe"
Files
3Files the file created, changed or deleted.
- Written
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Security Health\Logs - Written
\Device\ConDrv - Written
\Device\ConDrv\\Connect
Mutexes
4Named locks a program uses so only one copy runs; malware families often reuse them.
\BaseNamedObjects\Local\SM0:6664:304:WilStaging_02\BaseNamedObjects\Local\SM0:6664:120:WilError_03\BaseNamedObjects\Local\ZonesCacheCounterMutex\BaseNamedObjects\Local\ZonesLockedCacheCounterMutex
Sandbox background — not the file
4The analysis machine's own processes and connections, recorded in every run.
- VM process
conhost.exeC:\Windows\System32\conhost.exe C:\Windows\system32\conhost.exe 0xffffffff -ForceV1 - VM process
SecurityHealthService.exeC:\Windows\System32\SecurityHealthService.exe C:\Windows\system32\SecurityHealthService.exe - VM host
eip-terr-na.cdp1.digicert.com.akahost.net - VM host
nexusrules.officeapps.live.com
Chapter 04
Technical details
3 of the 71 antivirus engines that checked it flag it; no publisher signature.
Sources checked
Every check behind this verdict
6 sources checked · all complete. Complete means the check returned a usable result; it does not mean the file is safe.
Engines that flagged it 3
The saved verdict treats these detections as likely false positives.
- APEXMalicious
- BkavW32.Malware.C92F45B
- DeepInstinctMALICIOUS
File fingerprint
- Last analyzed
- Oct 25, 2026, 6:57 AM UTC
- SHA-256
83496beb08b2c79d3c9771be58846d4456f2241079e01c34d1c1af625544c677- SHA-1
2bf21739376ad3d7fd69d38e99962dbfe29b3b04- MD5
5b414d2c3f475e5a11e08f774ec1f53d
About this file
VPKMerge.dll is a Win32 EXE file of 2.0 MB.
- Claims to be
- VPKMergeFrom the file's own version information, written by whoever built it.
- Original name
- VPKMerge.dllMatches the shared file name.
- Type and size
- Win32 EXE · 2.0 MB
- Signer
- UnsignedNo code signature.
- First seen
- Sep 7, 2026On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 201 distinct sources
- Packer
- None detected
- Entropy
- 6.55 of 8
First scanned
Antivirus consensus
3 of 71 engines flagged this file
4 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-236 engines1flagged
- Low-trust17 engines2flagged
View all 75 engine results
- APEXMalicious: Malicious
- BkavMalicious: W32.Malware.C92F45B
- DeepInstinctMalicious: MALICIOUS
- AcronisClean
- AhnLab-V3Clean
- AlibabaClean
- alibabacloudClean
- ALYacClean
- Antiy-AVLClean
- ArcabitClean
- AvastClean
- Avast-MobileNo result
- AVGClean
- AviraClean
- BitDefenderClean
- BitDefenderFalxNo result
- CAT-QuickHealClean
- ClamAVClean
- CMCClean
- CrowdStrikeClean
- CTXClean
- CylanceClean
- CynetClean
- DrWebClean
- ElasticClean
- EmsisoftClean
- ESET-NOD32Clean
- F-SecureClean
- FortinetClean
- GDataClean
- GoogleClean
- GridinsoftClean
- huorongClean
- IkarusClean
- JiangminClean
- K7AntiVirusClean
- K7GWClean
- KasperskyClean
- KingsoftClean
- LionicClean
- MalwarebytesClean
- MaxSecureClean
- McAfeeDClean
- MicrosoftClean
- MicroWorld-eScanClean
- NANO-AntivirusClean
- PaloaltoClean
- PandaClean
- RisingClean
- SangforClean
- SentinelOneClean
- SkyhighClean
- SophosClean
- SUPERAntiSpywareClean
- SymantecClean
- SymantecMobileInsightNo result
- TACHYONClean
- tehtrisClean
- TencentClean
- TrapmineClean
- TrellixENSClean
- TrendMicroClean
- TrendMicro-HouseCallClean
- TrustlookNo result
- VaristClean
- VBA32Clean
- VIPREClean
- VirITClean
- ViRobotClean
- WebrootClean
- XcitiumClean
- YandexClean
- ZillyaClean
- ZoneAlarmClean
- ZonerClean
Signatures and behavior heuristics
Low-severity pattern matches — worth noting but not on their own cause for alarm.
VirusTotal's sandbox summary maps this run to MITRE T1055 (Process Injection), but no injected process of the sample's own was recorded (the analysis VM's own WMI adapter, crash handlers and Chrome updater are not counted). VirusTotal maps T1055 on about half of all files no engine flags, so the mapping alone is not evidence of injection.
EvidenceT1055 (sandbox MITRE mapping)
Section entropy & packers
No high-entropy executable section or known packer signature was detected. Data and resource sections can still have high entropy without indicating packed code.
How widely this file has been seen
Widely uploaded, but first seen within the last six months. No strong prior applies.
Chapter 05
Questions & answers
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