File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Safe

Widely-distributed game ROM archive with 620-day history, 408 submitters, and unanimous tier-1 engine consensus — no malware indicators detected.

Trust score92High trust
MT AI confidence · 98%
Pokemon - SoulSilver Version (USA, Australia).zip
57.9 MB
9b35fb1e70750eef6d46f9bd689e
Antivirus engines
0 of 75 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.

98%Confidence
Very high
Reasoning

The evidence overwhelmingly supports a benign classification. Tier-1 engines (Kaspersky, Microsoft, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Avira, Fortinet, F-Secure, Emsisoft, GData, Ikarus, DrWeb, Avast, AVG) unanimously report the file undetected. The prevalence classification 'common_old' with 426 submissions and 408 unique submitters over 620 days indicates this is a well-known, stable commodity file — consistent with legitimate game ROM distribution. No sandbox behaviour data, no dropped children, no malicious host contact, and zero external intelligence hits (CIRCL, MalwareBazaar, YARAify) confirm the absence of malicious runtime or infrastructure indicators. No heuristic rules fired, and no adversarial input flags were detected. The unsigned status is typical for ROM archives and does not override the strong prevalence and consensus signals.

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. tier1Malicious=0; 17 tier-1 engines (Kaspersky, Microsoft, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Avira, Fortinet, F-Secure, Emsisoft, GData, Ikarus, DrWeb, Avast, AVG) all undetected

  2. prevalence.classification='common_old' with 408 unique submitters, 426 submissions since 2024-10-19 — established distribution pattern

  3. No external intel hits: CIRCL=false, MalwareBazaar=false, YARAify.ruleCount=0 — no researcher-curated malware signals

  4. No behaviour data, no dropped children, no malicious contacted hosts, no sandbox verdicts — clean runtime profile

  5. triggeredHeuristics=[] (empty); no adversarial input flags; no brand mismatch — no evasion or spoofing indicators

Points in its favour
  • 17/17 tier-1 engines undetected (Kaspersky, Microsoft, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Avira, Fortinet, F-Secure, Emsisoft, GData, Ikarus, DrWeb, Avast, AVG)
  • prevalence.classification='common_old' with 426 submissions, 408 unique submitters, 620-day history
  • No external intelligence hits: CIRCL=false, MalwareBazaar=false, YARAify.ruleCount=0
  • No sandbox malicious verdicts, no dropped children, no malicious contacted hosts
  • No adversarial input flags, no brand mismatch, no triggered heuristics
What to do

This file is safe. The unanimous tier-1 consensus, established prevalence (426 submissions over 620 days), and complete absence of malicious indicators confirm it is a legitimate game ROM archive. No further action is needed.

No researcher-database hits
External threat-intel sources were not collected for this scan.
Antivirus engine breakdown

0 detections across 75 engines

0 malicious0 suspicious75 clean
Tier-117 engines
0flag
Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)
Tier-238 engines
0flag
Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates
Low-trust20 engines
0flag
Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)
All 75 engines report this file as clean.
Hash 9b35fb1e7075… cross-referenced against 75 AV engines via our AV network.
Prevalence

How often this file shows up in the wild

Widely seen in the wild for a long time. High prior this is legitimate; isolated detections on common-old files are usually false positives.

Common & old
Unique uploaders
408
Hundreds of people have uploaded this — common.
Total submissions
426
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen by VT
2y ago
Oct 19, 2024
Prevalence quadrant
Rare · New
Targeted malware lives here
Common · New
Just-released software
Rare · Old
Niche or internal tooling
here
Common · Old
Trusted legitimate binaries
File identity

Forensic fingerprint

File biography
First seen (VT)
10/19/2024, 4:24:09 PM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
6/29/2026, 4:55:25 PM
Scanned here
7/1/2026, 5:48:58 AM
File name
Pokemon - SoulSilver Version (USA, Australia).zip
Size
57.95 MB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
ZIP
SHA-256
9b35fb1e70750eef6da6a0afff4ad57b26505adaab82cc27307d1b46f9bd689e
MD5
4dd1e09df22ed588438b49977c4859b9
SHA-1
4e02457f781ecd4985c7cc80557f4d9dc463ea56
First seen (VT)
10/19/2024, 4:24:09 PM
Last analysis (VT)
6/29/2026, 4:55:25 PM
First scan (MalwareTips)
7/1/2026, 5:48:58 AM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
7/1/2026, 5:48:58 AM
Behavior tags
zip
Community classification

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