Safe
Official qBittorrent 5.0.5 x64 installer: clean across 71 engines, high prevalence, confirmed clean by community researchers.
875c13a389eac2c656…e40f75ec7fThe reasoning behind this verdict
The MT AI Engine weighs every signal from this scan — antivirus detections, sandbox behaviour, code signing, prevalence and historical matches — to reach a single, evidence-based verdict.
Zero malicious detections from high-coverage scanning, including full tier-1 consensus on clean, strongly indicates safety. High prevalence as common_old commodity software aligns with legitimate distribution of qBittorrent, a well-known open-source application. Community comments unanimously confirm it as the official installer. While heuristics flag process injection (likely NSIS unpacking into Explorer) and generic YARA rules, these lack backing from engines or sandbox verdicts and are outweighed by clean signals. No malicious behavior in drops, contacts, or runtime.
Each signal cites a concrete token from the evidence the arbiter saw — engine name, MITRE technique, signer string, or an exact count.
engines: 0/71 malicious (17/17 tier1 clean)
prevalence: common_old (3661 uniqueSources)
communityComments: 'official setup of qbittorrent 5.0.5 x64'
fileName: qbittorrent_5.0.5_x64_setup.exe (hasInstallerHint=true)
- engines: 0 malicious / 17 tier1 clean
- prevalence: common_old (3661 sources)
- communityComments: 4x clean/qBittorrent confirmations
- file.reputation=7, ageDays=392
- triggeredHeuristics: MalwareTips.Synth.ProcessInjection (high severity)
- externalIntel.yaraify: 2 rules ('win_rat_generic')
- behaviour.offensiveTechniques: T1055, T1134
- tags: detect-debug-environment, overlay
This is a legitimate qBittorrent installer. Proceed with installation confidently, preferably from the official website to ensure the latest version.
What to do now
This file looks safe based on everything we checked.
This file is safe to use.
Good habit: only download files from the official website or an app store.
Keep your antivirus and Windows updates switched on so you stay protected.
Sus Obf Enc Spoof Hide PE corroborated by 1 source
- 2 YARA rulesSus_Obf_Enc_Spoof_Hide_PE, win_rat_generic
What this file did when executed
This file was detonated in 1 sandbox and its runtime behaviour was observed.
Adversary techniques mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- 224.0.0.251
- 20.75.60.91
- 23.196.145.221
- 23.53.122.199
- 20.99.133.109
- 184.27.218.92
- 20.69.140.28
- 192.168.0.14
- 192.168.0.23
- 23.32.75.18
- C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\nsvD5A0.tmp
- C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\nsaD5C0.tmp\UAC.dll
- C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\nsaD5C0.tmp\LangDLL.dll
- C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\nsaD5C0.tmp\System.dll
- C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\nsaD5C0.tmp\modern-header.bmp
- C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\nsaD5C0.tmp\FindProcDLL.dll
- C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\nsaD5C0.tmp\LangDLL.dll
- C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\nsaD5C0.tmp\modern-header.bmp
- C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\nsaD5C0.tmp\modern-wizard.bmp
- C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\nsaD5C0.tmp\nsDialogs.dll
- cversions.3.m
- Local\SessionImmersiveColorMutex
- QtLockedFile mutex c:/users/bruno/appdata/roaming/qbittorrent/lockfile
Files this sample writes at runtime
This file drops 10 children at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache.
- 314243a55c32679ad473…50c1a7Never scannednever seen before
- 005b0aa0c9a5b930dfdd…bea13dNever scannednever seen before
- 51b8ff55b37dc5907d63…a786e0Never scannednever seen before
- 7808ed542a7833c4bd94…687300Never scannednever seen before
- bb86a4094dec468cb638…a1389dNever scannednever seen before
- c44e0313a9414cc0e490…92034fNever scannednever seen before
- ec31a26cdf3b41bca0d0…645be0Never scannednever seen before
- f78e59b5bdd586181a99…2253d2Never scannednever seen before
- 7d1e5ca3310b54d104c1…b25c22Never scannednever seen before
- 3da6605668f9178d11a8…9c224bNever scannednever seen before
1 corroborating signal from researcher-curated sources
- Sus_Obf_Enc_Spoof_Hide_PEby XiAnzhengCheck for Overlay, Obfuscating, Encrypting, Spoofing, Hiding, or Entropy Technique(can create FP)
- win_rat_genericby Reedus0Rule for detecting generic RAT malware
YARA & heuristic rule matches
A researcher-curated or high-severity heuristic rule matched this sample. These rules target specific malware families and are near-definitive.
- Sus_Obf_Enc_Spoof_Hide_PE
- win_rat_generic
MITRE T1055 (Process Injection) observed — CreateRemoteThread / APC / reflective-DLL injection. The payload is being smuggled into a legitimate process to bypass AV hooks.
EvidenceC:\Windows\Explorer.EXESample contacted 15 external IP address(es) and zero domains. Benign software virtually always uses DNS; no-DNS direct-IP C2 is a strong malware indicator because it bypasses reputation systems and dodges domain-based blocklists.
Evidence20.75.60.91 · 23.196.145.221 · 23.53.122.199
0 detections across 76 engines
Section entropy & packers
Section-level entropy and packer detection from the PE header. Nothing suspicious here — entropy is within the normal range for unpacked code.
How widely this file has been seen
Widely seen in the wild for a long time. High prior this is legitimate; isolated detections on common-old files are usually false positives.
Forensic fingerprint
- File name
- qbittorrent_5.0.5_x64_setup.exe
- Size
- 38.09 MB
- MIME type
- (unknown)
- Detected type
- Win32 EXE
- SHA-256
- 875c13a389eac2c656c26ec2c676168b91acf5ba376bea4c31e2efe40f75ec7f
- MD5
- 0ecf83f09c19df0f3c2806c4cc2b22a6
- SHA-1
- 8d3cffae35513a22d37c17407d13abf1771d26bf
- PE imphash
- 9dda1a1d1f8a1d13ae0297b47046b26e
- First seen (VT)
- 4/13/2025, 5:03:48 PM
- Last analysis (VT)
- 2/18/2026, 7:55:35 AM
- First scan (MalwareTips)
- 5/11/2026, 4:07:14 AM
- Last scan (MalwareTips)
- 5/11/2026, 4:07:14 AM
- Community reputation
- +7trusted
Safety FAQ
Common questions about qbittorrent_5.0.5_x64_setup.exe, answered from the scan data above.
- qbittorrent_5.0.5_x64_setup.exe appears safe. 76 of 76 antivirus engines report it clean. As a habit, only run files you downloaded from the official source, since attackers sometimes distribute trojanised copies of legitimate software under the same name.
- qbittorrent_5.0.5_x64_setup.exe is a Windows executable program, about 38.1 MB. Our analysis found no threat indicators for it. A file's name can be reused by different files, so we identify it by its cryptographic hash (below).
- None — all 76 antivirus engines we queried report qbittorrent_5.0.5_x64_setup.exe as clean. That's reassuring, though brand-new malware can briefly evade detection before vendors add signatures, so we also weigh the file's behaviour and reputation.
- The SHA-256 hash of qbittorrent_5.0.5_x64_setup.exe is 875c13a389eac2c656c26ec2c676168b91acf5ba376bea4c31e2efe40f75ec7f, and its MD5 is 0ecf83f09c19df0f3c2806c4cc2b22a6. This hash is the file's unique fingerprint — two files with the same SHA-256 are identical. Use it to confirm you're looking at exactly this file (not just one with the same name) when comparing against antivirus databases or a download's published checksum.
- Based on this scan, yes — qbittorrent_5.0.5_x64_setup.exe shows no threat indicators. The important caveat is source: make sure you downloaded it from the official website or a trusted store, because attackers sometimes distribute malware-laced copies under a legitimate file's name. If your own antivirus flags it while we report it clean, that is most often a false positive, but verify the source before overriding your antivirus.
- This report reflects the scan run on May 11, 2026. Because a file's hash never changes, the identity of qbittorrent_5.0.5_x64_setup.exe is fixed — but antivirus coverage improves over time, so a file that looks clean today can pick up detections later (and vice-versa). If you need the latest picture, MalwareTips staff can re-run the analysis from scratch.
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