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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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
Chapter 02
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
Chapter 03
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
What this file did when executed
This file was run in a sandbox and its runtime behaviour was observed.
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.
- T1010
- T1055· Process injection
- T1056· Keylogging
- T1057· Lists programs
- T1071· Application protocol
- T1082· System recon
- T1129· Loads modules
- T1497· Sandbox evasion
- T1562.001· Disables security
- T1574.002· Execution hijack
Observed activity
Processes started
6Programs the file ran, with their command lines.
rundll32.exe"C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exe" "C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\shell.dll",#1shell.exe"C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\shell.exe"unarchiver.exe"C:\Windows\SysWOW64\unarchiver.exe" "C:\Users\user\Desktop\portable.zip"7za.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\7za.exe "C:\Windows\System32\7za.exe" x -pinfected -y -o"C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\i5gwwaom.25n" "C:\Users\user\Desktop\portable.zip"unarchiver.exe"C:\Windows\SysWOW64\unarchiver.exe" "C:\Users\user\Desktop\sample.zip"7za.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\7za.exe "C:\Windows\System32\7za.exe" x -pinfected -y -o"C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\dhmvppcd.am2" "C:\Users\user\Desktop\sample.zip"
Network contacts
11 host, listed as 1 address. Links show the host and path only.
- IP address
173.194.195.94
Files
15Files the file created, changed or deleted.
- Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\i5gwwaom.25n - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\i5gwwaom.25n\LICENSE - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\i5gwwaom.25n\imports - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\i5gwwaom.25n\imports\develop.nss - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\i5gwwaom.25n\imports\file-manage.nss - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\i5gwwaom.25n\imports\goto.nss
Show all 15 entries for files
- Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\i5gwwaom.25n\imports\images.nss - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\i5gwwaom.25n\imports\modify.nss - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\i5gwwaom.25n\imports\taskbar.nss - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\i5gwwaom.25n\imports\terminal.nss - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\i5gwwaom.25n\imports\theme.nss - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\i5gwwaom.25n\readme.txt - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\i5gwwaom.25n\shell.dll - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\i5gwwaom.25n\shell.exe - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\i5gwwaom.25n\shell.nss
Sandbox background — not the file
1The 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
Files this sample writes at runtime
This file drops 10 children at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache. 10 have no saved verdict and were not checked; that is missing coverage, not a finding.
- cda839657acef7ee6381…d02e25Not checkedno saved verdict
- b1fe8e12eca260077dd5…4613b2Not checkedno saved verdict
- 548fb2007054b9cf5e90…3fa7a6Not checkedno saved verdict
- 6aef50956245b6ca8bc5…2c6c2dNot checkedno saved verdict
- 10f8ecc6ec94c09dbb7c…fac5fbNot checkedno saved verdict
- 49002ee99142bd8859e1…6a1a43Not checkedno saved verdict
- 915e178329803bf5805c…a38d74Not checkedno saved verdict
- a8ff9e371107a443bc10…a6b651Not checkedno saved verdict
- db3f4b59e677d1adf910…50a3c3Not checkedno saved verdict
- 4eabac27d4a5323d4fcb…b461b8Not checkedno saved verdict
Chapter 04
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
Antivirus consensus
0 of 67 engines flagged this file
9 of the 76 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 engines0flagged
- Low-trust13 engines0flagged
View all 76 engine results
- AcronisClean
- AhnLab-V3Clean
- AlibabaClean
- alibabacloudClean
- ALYacClean
- Antiy-AVLClean
- APEXNo result
- ArcabitClean
- AvastClean
- Avast-MobileClean
- AVGClean
- AviraClean
- BaiduClean
- BitDefenderClean
- BitDefenderFalxNo result
- BkavNo result
- CAT-QuickHealClean
- ClamAVClean
- CMCClean
- CrowdStrikeClean
- CTXClean
- CylanceNo result
- CynetClean
- DeepInstinctClean
- 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
- PaloaltoNo result
- PandaClean
- RisingClean
- SangforClean
- SentinelOneClean
- SkyhighClean
- SophosClean
- SUPERAntiSpywareClean
- SymantecClean
- SymantecMobileInsightNo result
- TACHYONClean
- tehtrisNo result
- TencentClean
- TrapmineNo result
- 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)
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.
Chapter 05
Questions & answers
Short answers to the 6 questions people ask most about this file.
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