Is Bloodstrike XT _[RGE]_.exe safe? No, we rate this exact file malicious.

What We Detected

This is a 64-bit Windows executable of about 1.8 MB, unsigned and without any publisher history. Twenty-three of the 71 antivirus engines that checked it flagged it, and 21 of those detections remain after collapsing engines that share one scanning core. Eight belong to major antivirus engines: Microsoft reports Trojan:Win32/Kepavll!rfn, TrendMicro reports Trojan.Win64.KEPAVLL.USBLI926, and Sophos, Symantec, Trellix, Ikarus, ESET and Fortinet all return malware or unwanted-application verdicts. Several machine-learning engines (Elastic, DeepInstinct, CrowdStrike) add high-confidence malicious scores.

The executable is not packed and its code sections show ordinary entropy, so the detections are not simply reacting to a wrapper or protector. No engine label attributes it to a well-known stealer or ransomware family; the shared name across Microsoft, TrendMicro and two other vendors is Kepavll, which antivirus vendors use for game-cheating and cheat-loader programs.

Threat Behavior

Four sandbox runs were completed and their combined verdict was clean: no process injection targets, no contacted web domains, no files dropped and no persistence keys written. The only network address recorded is the analysis environment's own background traffic, not the sample's. This kind of tool is built to attach to a running game and will often sit dormant when no game client is present, so an uneventful sandbox run is expected and is not evidence of safety.

ESET and Fortinet describe the code as a game hack / potentially unsafe application, which matches how the file presents itself. Cheat and hack builds traded through game forums are a common delivery route for loaders, information stealers and remote-access tooling, because users are already primed to run an unsigned executable and to grant it the privileges it asks for. The executable's own tags also indicate user-input checks and spreading behaviour rather than a plain offline hack.

What To Do Now

Do not run this program on a machine you care about. If it has already been executed, run a full scan with your current antivirus protection, review recently installed startup entries, and change passwords for any account you signed into on that machine, particularly game, e-mail and payment accounts. Keep security software enabled — cheats frequently instruct users to add exclusions, which removes the only layer that was catching this file.