Is Buildings.png safe?
No engine among 75 flagged this PNG, and available threat-intelligence checks found no known family, signature, or researcher-rule match.
The image drew no malicious or suspicious detections from 75 engines, including no tier-1 flags. Available intelligence checks also produced no matching malware records or researcher rules, although no runtime observation or complete contacted-host check is available.
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Before viewing
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If you already viewed it
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Intelligence
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The reasoning behind this verdict
This section explains the evidence supporting the verdict and keeps conflicting or missing signals visible.
The image drew no malicious or suspicious detections from 75 engines, including no tier-1 flags. Available intelligence checks also produced no matching malware records or researcher rules, although no runtime observation or complete contacted-host check is available.
The strongest evidence is the absence of malicious or suspicious detections across all 75 engines, with eight tier-1 products reporting no detection. The sample is identified as a PNG, for which code signing is not applicable. Research intelligence returned no known-malicious record, repository match, or YARA rule. No sandbox run was completed, so runtime behavior cannot be characterized. The file is uncommon, with three submissions from three sources, but it has been known since 2024 and has no corroborating threat indicators.
What We Detected
None of 75 antivirus engines marked the PNG as malicious or suspicious. Eight tier-1 engines reported no detection, and there was no family consensus or hacktool label.
Threat Behavior
No completed sandbox observation is available, so runtime behavior was not observed. No complete contacted-host reputation result is available either. Research intelligence found no known-malicious record, malware repository match, or YARA rule for this hash.
What To Do Now
The available static evidence does not indicate malware. Keep endpoint protection enabled, obtain the image from a trusted source, and use an updated image viewer because malformed images can sometimes exploit vulnerable applications.
Where this verdict could be wrong3 caveats
- behaviour=null, so no completed runtime observation is available to confirm how consuming applications handle the image.
- contactedHosts=null, meaning no complete host-reputation cross-check is available.
- The file has only 3 submissions from 3 sources, providing limited prevalence-based reassurance.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- 0/75 engines reported malicious or suspicious results.
- engines.tier1Malicious=0, with eight tier-1 engines reporting no detection.
- externalIntel.malwareBazaar.hit=false and externalIntel.circl.hit=false.
- externalIntel.yaraify.ruleCount=0.
- No brand mismatch or triggered heuristic was recorded.
- No completed runtime observation is available.
- No complete contacted-host reputation cross-check is available.
- Limited prevalence: 3 submissions from 3 sources.
Opening the image with a fully updated viewer presents low indicated risk based on current evidence. Keep endpoint protection enabled and re-scan if the file changes or comes from an untrusted source.
Coverage & freshness
Complete means the check returned a usable result. It does not mean the file is safe.
Antivirus
Complete0 of 75 engines flagged the file.
Sandbox
PartialRuntime data is present, but no completed sandbox environment is recorded.
Network
Not runNo contacted-host reputation check is recorded.
No timestamp recordedYARA
CompleteRule evaluation completed with no recorded matches.
External intel
Complete3 of 3 independent reference sources completed.
Behavior
Plain-English impact first, then the observed runtime evidence.
Runtime behavior was not available
The report does not treat a missing runtime observation as a clean result.
Detection & Forensics
Consensus, attribution, signatures, code structure, prevalence, and identity.
Evidence integrity
Chain of custody for the facts preserved in this report.
- 0rule hits recorded
- 0 / 75engines flagged
- 3sources in submission history
Why these facts are shown
Each statement identifies whether it was directly recorded or derived from saved scan facts.
- 01
0 of 75 antivirus engines flagged the file.
Verdict inputView chapterProvenanceObservedSourceAntivirus analysisObserved at - 02
No completed runtime observation is available for this file.
ProvenanceDerivedSourceRuntime coverageObserved at - 03
The hash has been submitted 3 times from 3 sources.
ProvenanceDerivedSourceSaved report factsObserved at
Detection sources at a glance
The available sources did not agree on a named threat category.
MalwareBazaar, YARAify, and CIRCL hashlookup completed and returned no entries for this hash.
YARA rules
No matchesThe rule pass completed without a saved public match.
0 of 75 engines flagged this file
View all 75 engine results
PE structure
Not applicablePE structure analysis applies to Windows executable formats, not this file type.
How widely this file has been seen
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.
Fingerprint and provenance
- File name
- Buildings.png
- Format
- PNG
- Code signing
- Not applicable to this file type
- Size
- 261.7 KB
- Last analyzed
- Sep 14, 2026, 5:08 PM UTC
8bb16665d91915da3e841a14226514ade88050f3d842f504846b6eda8ace3ff8Safety & FAQ
Complete recovery guidance and answers for the next decision.
What to do now
This file appears low risk based on the evidence available now.
- Recovery step 01
View it only when its sender or download source is one you trust.
- Recovery step 02
A clean result reduces known risk, but it cannot guarantee that every new or targeted threat has been detected.
- Recovery step 03
Keep your antivirus and Windows updates switched on so you stay protected.
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