Is hpsoftpaqwrapper.exe safe? Yes, no threats found.

What We Detected

Nothing. Every one of the 71 antivirus engines that checked it in our network returned a clean result, including the 18 that carry the most weight, such as Kaspersky, ESET-NOD32, BitDefender, Fortinet, Avast and Avira. The portable-executable layout shows no packer, no unusual section entropy and no wrapped or encrypted code.

Signature and Publisher

The executable carries a valid digital signature that verifies against HP Inc., a publisher already on our trusted list. A matching signature means the bytes are exactly what that publisher shipped; it would fail verification if the file had been altered after signing.

Threat Behavior

Six sandbox runs recorded ordinary installer activity: extraction into a program directory, creation of a display-control service, registry entries for that service and an uninstall record, plus normal system queries. The summary includes generic technique labels for process injection and defence tampering, but no injected target process and no tampering artefact were recorded, and such labels appear on the majority of files that no engine flags, so they do not describe anything observed. Network contacts were limited to Microsoft identity and content devices, and the host reputation check found nothing malicious or suspicious. Of the dropped files, two are known-good software entries and none was judged harmful. Our own static review of the bytes was not performed for this submission, so the archive and code contents were not examined by us.

Distribution

The file was first seen on Jun 23, 2022 and has been submitted by 125 distinct sources — the spread expected from a vendor-supplied HP software package. A previous file from the same publisher was also judged clean.

What To Do Now

No action is needed beyond normal care: keep it if you obtained it from HP's own support or driver pages. Keep your antivirus protection enabled, and install HP software from HP's site rather than from third-party download portals, where repackaged installers can differ from the signed original.