File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Suspicious

Unsigned installer with direct-IP contacts and one low-trust detection but no tier-1 consensus or malicious children.

Trust score45Caution
ABPM(F)_V5.5.5_Setup.exe
21.8 MB
8b660bf952fc2b40f092b426a2cd
Antivirus engines
1 of 79 flagged
Code signing
Unsigned
Age
First seen 2y ago
MT AI Engine · our arbiter

The verdict, reasoned out.

Not a rules engine. The MT AI Engine reads every signal we collected, weighs them against history, and commits to an answer.

55%Confidence
Moderate
Reasoning

The engine profile is dominated by a single low-trust detection with zero tier-1 malicious flags, which normally points toward false positive. However, the sandbox behaviour includes direct-IP contact to seven addresses and two MITRE techniques commonly associated with privilege escalation and persistence. The file is unsigned, rare, and carries an installer hint but lacks any corroborating malicious family or external-intel hits. These conflicting signals prevent a clean safe or malicious determination.

Key signals · 5

Each signal cites a concrete token from the evidence the arbiter saw — engine name, MITRE technique, signer string, or an exact count.

  1. engines.onlyLowTrustFlagging=true with 1/75 malicious (Bkav 'W32.AIDetectMalware')

  2. triggeredHeuristics[0].rule=MalwareTips.Synth.DirectIpC2 (7 direct IPs, 0 domains)

  3. behaviour.offensiveTechniques=[T1134, T1547.001]

  4. prevalence.classification=rare_old; signing.signed=false

  5. similarHashes.length=0; externalIntel.yaraify.ruleCount=0

Points in its favour
  • 74/75 engines clean
  • No tier-1 malicious detections
  • No malicious sandbox verdict
  • No malicious dropped children
Points against
  • Unsigned binary
  • Direct-IP network contacts without domains
  • Offensive MITRE techniques observed
  • Rare prevalence (only 2 submitters)
What to do

Treat as suspicious pending further verification; do not execute on production systems without additional vetting or a trusted source.

Sources disagree

1 contradiction resolved by the scoring engine

Only low-trust / heuristic engines flagged this file
1 engine from the heuristic / generic-AI set flagged it. No tier-1 engine agreed.
Detection weight reduced in scoring.
Runtime behaviour

What this file did when executed

This file was detonated in 1 sandbox and its runtime behaviour was observed.

MITRE ATT&CK
17

Adversary techniques mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

T1012T1027T1033T1036T1057T1059T1071T1082T1083T1129T1134T1497.001T1529T1547.001T1574.002T1614T1614.001
Spawned processes
10
$(unnamed)
"C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\ABPM_F__V5.5.5_Setup.exe"
$(unnamed)
"C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\is-DQL87.tmp\ABPM_F__V5.5.5_Setup.tmp" /SL5="$5005A,22470371,119296,C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\ABPM_F__V5.5.5_Setup.exe"
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\system32\services.exe
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k wusvcs -p -s WaaSMedicSvc
$(unnamed)
%SAMPLEPATH%\ABPM(F)_V5.5.5_Setup.exe
$(unnamed)
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp\is-NM8VD.tmp\ABPM(F)_V5.5.5_Setup.tmp
$(unnamed)
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\is-G56ID.tmp\ABPM(F)_V5.5.5_Setup.tmp /SL5=$20184,22470371,119296,C:\Users\<USER>\Downloads\ABPM(F)_V5.5.5_Setup.exe
+2 more processes captured.
Network activity
7
IP addresses7
  • 204.79.197.203
  • 52.154.209.174
  • 23.216.81.152
  • 20.99.185.48
  • 23.59.198.43
  • 20.99.186.246
  • 151.101.22.172
Filesystem & mutexes
35
Files written15
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\is-DQL87.tmp\ABPM_F__V5.5.5_Setup.tmp
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\is-2M8NS.tmp\_isetup\_setup64.tmp
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\is-2M8NS.tmp\_isetup\_shfoldr.dll
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\ABPM\ABPM.exe
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\ABPM\DllConv.dll
+10 more
Files deleted15
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\ABPM\is-R0VB4.tmp
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\ABPM\is-F8R2H.tmp
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\ABPM\is-FB3BS.tmp
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\ABPM\is-BP8VR.tmp
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\ABPM\is-RRPTS.tmp
+10 more
Mutexes created5
  • Local\RstrMgr3887CAB8-533F-4C85-B0DC-3E5639F8D511
  • Local\RstrMgr-3887CAB8-533F-4C85-B0DC-3E5639F8D511-Session0000
  • cversions.3.m
  • \Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\Local\RstrMgr3887CAB8-533F-4C85-B0DC-3E5639F8D511
  • \Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\Local\RstrMgr-3887CAB8-533F-4C85-B0DC-3E5639F8D511-Session0000
Dropped payload

Files this sample writes at runtime

This file drops 10 children at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache.

10 unseen
  • cf8a77f4cbd38f6ab44f7adff5Never scanned
    never seen before
  • 13f9d708533850c1348baadaccNever scanned
    never seen before
  • 2e50b1f56fc0c74c255c5a17b7Never scanned
    never seen before
  • 7fca853e4a1cd04854026d3e31Never scanned
    never seen before
  • 63595ed08fd452ea571aa1fee0Never scanned
    never seen before
  • 45370e81519db719413a3c40abNever scanned
    never seen before
  • 78755fb8c2cd1db5f34401634dNever scanned
    never seen before
  • 71b35dabb51f1cda0aa670540dNever scanned
    never seen before
  • b6ecc658fa0b1d787afa6da675Never scanned
    never seen before
  • 02011fa7fa11447cd752fbbd50Never scanned
    never seen before
No researcher-database hits
External threat-intel sources were not collected for this scan.
Signature matches

YARA + heuristic rules that fired

One or more medium-severity heuristic rules matched. Not definitive, but the patterns match known malware behaviour.

1 synthesis
MITRE ATT&CK profile
C2× 1
MalwareTips synthesis rules
Our heuristics on VT data + sandbox behaviour
  • DirectIpC2medium

    Sample contacted 7 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.

    Evidence
    204.79.197.203 · 52.154.209.174 · 23.216.81.152
Antivirus engine breakdown

1 detection across 79 engines

1 malicious0 suspicious78 clean
Tier-118 engines
0flag
Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)
Tier-243 engines
0flag
Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates
Low-trust18 engines
1flag
Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)
Bkav
malicious
W32.AIDetectMalware
Hash 8b660bf952fc… cross-referenced against 79 AV engines via our AV network.
PE forensics

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.

ent 8.00Unpacked
Section entropy8 sections
.text
6.39
.itext
5.73
.data
2.25
.bss
0.00
.idata
4.97
.tls
0.00
.rdata
0.20
.rsrc
4.13
0.0Packed threshold 7.28.0
Prevalence

How often this file shows up in the wild

Rarely uploaded, but has been around for a while. Often niche legitimate software or old internal tooling; not a strong malware signal on its own.

Rare & old
Unique uploaders
2
Very few people have ever uploaded this — rare.
Total submissions
2
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen by VT
2y ago
Aug 13, 2024
Prevalence quadrant
Rare · New
Targeted malware lives here
Common · New
Just-released software
here
Rare · Old
Niche or internal tooling
Common · Old
Trusted legitimate binaries
File identity

Forensic fingerprint

File biography
First seen (VT)
8/13/2024, 1:50:01 PM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
8/13/2024, 1:50:01 PM
Scanned here
7/9/2026, 5:57:40 AM
File name
ABPM(F)_V5.5.5_Setup.exe
Size
21.83 MB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
Win32 EXE
SHA-256
8b660bf952fc2b40f05e60f324837645cd8f9a0be177e6e198110792b426a2cd
MD5
9acd1e318d199ffff4d8b04de3e34fd5
SHA-1
ea9601b5edb4859eb743756938dca80393e75a7c
PE imphash
48aa5c8931746a9655524f67b25a47ef
First seen (VT)
8/13/2024, 1:50:01 PM
Last analysis (VT)
8/13/2024, 1:50:01 PM
First scan (MalwareTips)
7/9/2026, 5:57:40 AM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
7/9/2026, 5:57:40 AM
Behavior tags
overlaypeexe
Community classification

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