File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is dxsetup.
The verified Microsoft-signed DirectX installer drew no detections from 75 engines and has extensive distribution history dating back to 2011.
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Strong evidence · A verified publisher signature, and no engine flags it.
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Antivirus results
0 of 71 flagged
- Flagged 0
- No detection 71
- No result 4
- Code signing Microsoft Corporation
- Test run Completed
- First seen 15y 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
The file carries a verified Microsoft Corporation signature, and none of the 71 antivirus engines that checked it detected it. Its long history, broad prevalence, and five matching publisher-based prior assessments strongly support a legitimate DirectX installer, although broad behavioral and YARA matches justify obtaining it from an official source.
No antivirus engine detected the sample among 75 engines, including all 17 major antivirus engines. The executable is verified as signed by Microsoft Corporation, and its publisher matches the curated trusted-publisher record. It has circulated since 2011, with 14,419 submissions from 3,722 sources, which is consistent with a widely redistributed legacy DirectX installer. One sandbox mapped four potentially offensive techniques, but it issued no malicious conclusion and none of ten inspected files it created was identified as malicious. Four broad YARA rules matched, yet they did not identify a malware family and are outweighed by the signature, prevalence, engine results, and five consistent Microsoft-signer precedents. Host-reputation coverage was incomplete, so the observed contacts cannot be characterized as fully cleared.
What We Detected
The executable is verified as signed by Microsoft Corporation, and 0 of the 71 antivirus engines that checked it flagged it. It has been observed since 2011 and has 14,419 submissions from 3,722 sources, supporting its identity as widely distributed legacy software. Five prior files matched through the same verified signer and all received benign signed-installer assessments.
Threat Behavior
One sandbox mapped activity to T1055, T1134, T1543.003, and T1562.001, but produced no malicious sandbox conclusion. Ten files it created were inspected without a malicious child finding. Four community YARA rules matched broad properties such as debug-output imports, networking, and a digital certificate; none established a malware family. The host-reputation check covered only one host rather than every recorded IP and URL, so no complete reputation conclusion is available for network contacts.
What To Do Now
Use this installer only when it came from Microsoft, a trusted game or application vendor, or another established distribution channel. Keep security software enabled and verify the Microsoft signature before running any separately downloaded copy.
Where this verdict could be wrong4 caveats
- 4 community YARA rules matched, including Check_OutputDebugStringA_iat and golang_bin_JCorn_CSC846, provides researcher-rule counter-evidence, although none names a malware family.
- The sandbox's offensive-technique list includes T1055, T1134, T1543.003, and T1562.001; these mappings warrant caution despite the absence of a malicious sandbox conclusion.
- The cross-check of 1 host does not cover every distinct IP and URL listed under behaviour, so no complete host-reputation result is available.
- signing.signerStats records 1 malicious result among 16 Microsoft Corporation samples, although 15/16 were safe.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- 0/71 antivirus engines detected the sample.
- Verified Microsoft Corporation signature and trusted-publisher match.
- Observed since 2011 with 14,419 submissions from 3,722 sources.
- No malicious sandbox conclusion.
- No malicious child among 10 inspected dropped files.
- Runtime mappings include T1055, T1134, T1543.003, and T1562.001.
- 4 community YARA rules matched.
- Host-reputation inspection did not cover every recorded contact.
- The signer-history record contains 1 malicious sample among 16 historical signer samples.
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- 25sandbox rule tags
- 8spawned processes
- 5network contacts
- 40filesystem & mutex artifacts
Includes 25 mapped techniques, every process, file, registry and network entry and 10 dropped files.
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Technical details
None of the 71 antivirus engines that checked it flag it; signed by Microsoft Corporation.
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
- Sep 10, 2026, 8:38 PM UTC
- SHA-256
8f47d7121ef6532ad9ad9901e44e237f5c30448b752028c58a9d19521414e40d- SHA-1
9fd00f3bb8a870112dae464f555fcd5e7f9200c0- MD5
bf3f290275c21bdd3951955c9c3cf32c
About this file
dxsetup.exe is a Win32 EXE file of 518.0 kB.
- Type and size
- Win32 EXE · 518.0 kB
- Signer
- Microsoft CorporationValid code signature.
- First seen
- Apr 19, 2011On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 3,722 distinct sources
- Packer
- None detected
- Entropy
- 7.39 of 8
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Includes every engine result (75), 5 matched signature rules, PE section entropy and packers and how widely the file has been seen.
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