File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is Shell (Nilesoft) 1.
Portable Nilesoft Shell ZIP scans clean across all engines, with behavior consistent with self-extracting utilities despite rule flags.
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Strong evidence · Widely seen for a long time, and nothing harmful found.
Safe for use; this is a legitimate portable command shell from Nilesoft. Download from official sources to confirm integrity.
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We found nothing harmful in this file.
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Antivirus results
0 of 67 flagged
- Flagged 0
- No detection 67
- No result 9
- Code signing Not applicable
- Test run Completed
- First seen 1y ago
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Why we think so
4 points against it and 5 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
No detections from the antivirus engines's 69 engines, including top major antivirus engines. High prevalence and portable app traits outweigh behavioral rules like DLL loading via rundll32. Contacted Google IP only, no malicious activity observed.
This ZIP contains Nilesoft Shell portable, a command-line utility, matching filename and extraction behavior. Zero malicious flags from high-coverage scans provide strong clean signal. Anti-analysis tags exist but are common in portable tools. Community concerns noted but contradicted by engines and lack of persistence or a control server.
What We Detected
Zero malicious or suspicious detections from 69/67 engines; 17 major antivirus engines (e.g., BitDefender, Kaspersky, ESET) report clean.
Threat Behavior
Self-extracts using 7za.exe/unarchiver.exe to Temp, runs shell.exe and loads shell.dll via rundll32,#1 (MITRE T1055). 2 offensive/8 MITRE techniques common in legitimate software; no persistence, program markers, or malicious files it created. Common_old prevalence (446 submissions).
What To Do Now
Safe to run as legitimate portable shell tool. Verify from official Nilesoft source if concerned.
Where this verdict could be wrong3 caveats
- communityComments[1] tags 'malware','persistence' with threat score 8/10, though no persistenceIndicators[] found.
- file.tags 'detect-debug-environment','long-sleeps','checks-user-input' suggest anti-analysis.
- A community reputation score of -11 indicates some negative community signals.
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- 0/69 engine detections
- 17 major clean reports
- widely seen and long established prevalence (413 sources)
- No malicious sandbox/files it created
- Portable app filename pattern
- Direct IP contact (no DNS)
- Anti-analysis tags (detect-debug-environment, long-sleeps)
- Negative reputation (-11)
- Community malware tags
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 partial. See every source
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What it did in our test
It ran in our isolated test environment; no test environment rated what it did as risky.
Test run summary
Capture complete- 10sandbox rule tags
- 6spawned processes
- 1network contact
- 15filesystem & mutex artifacts
Includes 10 mapped techniques, every process, file, registry and network entry and 10 dropped files.
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Technical details
None of the 67 antivirus engines that checked it flag it.
Sources checked
Every check behind this verdict
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 partial. Complete means the check returned a usable result; it does not mean the file is safe.
File fingerprint
- Last analyzed
- Apr 24, 2026, 8:45 AM UTC
- SHA-256
8aa0b9c90e88ccce927a88d7126416b9e3d21d91c7748ea5c1cf2b7dda43e246- SHA-1
c2ff976f9e6cd5402f7df35fda08c024e20c6a50- MD5
340c6f27b75e67172d3aa98e50293ea3
About this file
Shell (Nilesoft) 1.9.18-portable.zip is a ZIP file of 1.0 MB.
- Type and size
- ZIP · 1.0 MB
- Signer
- Not applicable
- First seen
- Nov 27, 2024On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 413 distinct sources
First scanned
Includes every engine result (76), 1 matched signature rule and how widely the file has been seen.
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