File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Safe

Android APK with no malicious detections across 17 tier-1 engines; direct-IP contact is benign for Google infrastructure.

Trust score82Moderate trust
MT AI confidence · 82%
nqpaoxc4m.dll
12.4 KB
9be0d408ff7054b7ad74292fa557
Antivirus engines
0 of 76 flagged
Code signing
Unsigned
Age
First seen 4y 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.

82%Confidence
High
Reasoning

This Android APK received comprehensive scanning (67 of 76 engines reporting) with zero malicious or suspicious detections. All 17 tier-1 engines (Kaspersky, Microsoft, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Avira, Fortinet, Emsisoft, F-Secure, Ikarus, GData, DrWeb, Avast, AVG) reported it clean. The only alert is a heuristic rule flagging direct-IP C2 contact, but analysis of the contacted IPs reveals they belong to Google and Cloudflare — infrastructure that legitimate Android apps contact routinely for services like Firebase and Play Services. Behaviour analysis shows only ambient techniques (application-layer protocol, encrypted channel) with no offensive MITRE techniques. The file is rare and old (3 submissions since March 2022, no recent activity), with no external intelligence corroboration, no dropped children, and no malicious host contacts.

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. 17/17 tier-1 engines reporting clean (Kaspersky, Microsoft, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Avira, Fortinet, Emsisoft, F-Secure, Ikarus, GData, DrWeb, Avast, AVG all undetected)

  2. Contacted IPs (173.194.194.94, 173.194.193.113, 142.251.183.95, 172.67.151.52) are Google and Cloudflare infrastructure — typical for Android apps

  3. Behaviour: ambientCount=2, offensiveCount=0, no malicious sandbox verdicts, no dropped children, no malicious host contacts

  4. Prevalence: rare_old (3 submissions since 2022-03-28); no recent feedback or community annotations

  5. Triggered heuristic 'MalwareTips.Synth.DirectIpC2' (medium) is the sole alert, but pattern is benign for Android contacting Google services

Points in its favour
  • All 17 tier-1 antivirus engines report clean
  • Zero malicious or suspicious detections across 67 reporting engines
  • Contacted IPs belong to Google and Cloudflare — legitimate infrastructure
  • Only ambient MITRE techniques; zero offensive techniques
  • No malicious sandbox verdicts, dropped children, or malicious host contacts
What to do

This file is safe to use. The heuristic alert on direct-IP contact is a false positive in the context of Android apps contacting Google infrastructure. No further action is needed.

No researcher-database hits
External threat-intel sources were not collected for this scan.
Signature matches

YARA + heuristic rules that fired

One or more medium-severity heuristic rules matched. Not definitive, but the patterns match known malware behaviour.

1 synthesis
MITRE ATT&CK profile
C2× 1
MalwareTips synthesis rules
Our heuristics on VT data + sandbox behaviour
  • DirectIpC2medium

    Sample contacted 5 external IP address(es) and zero domains. Benign software virtually always uses DNS; no-DNS direct-IP C2 is a strong malware indicator because it bypasses reputation systems and dodges domain-based blocklists.

    Evidence
    173.194.194.94 · 173.194.193.113 · 172.67.151.52
Antivirus engine breakdown

0 detections across 76 engines

0 malicious0 suspicious76 clean
Tier-117 engines
0flag
Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)
Tier-238 engines
0flag
Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates
Low-trust21 engines
0flag
Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)
All 76 engines report this file as clean.
Hash 9be0d408ff70… cross-referenced against 76 AV engines via our AV network.
Prevalence

How often this file shows up in the wild

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.

Rare & old
Unique uploaders
3
Very few people have ever uploaded this — rare.
Total submissions
3
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen by VT
4y ago
Mar 28, 2022
Prevalence quadrant
Rare · New
Targeted malware lives here
Common · New
Just-released software
here
Rare · Old
Niche or internal tooling
Common · Old
Trusted legitimate binaries
File identity

Forensic fingerprint

File biography
First seen (VT)
3/28/2022, 8:06:02 AM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
12/11/2025, 1:21:04 PM
Scanned here
7/2/2026, 7:12:29 PM
File name
nqpaoxc4m.dll
Size
12.4 KB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
Android
SHA-256
9be0d408ff7054b7ad161912d8e05c3f507a94c8020a7c17eda14f74292fa557
MD5
c31072e649b7c7e078f995b78d4bb1c0
SHA-1
015bcb88f69330a01040a82cd549052d39f5ec30
First seen (VT)
3/28/2022, 8:06:02 AM
Last analysis (VT)
12/11/2025, 1:21:04 PM
First scan (MalwareTips)
7/2/2026, 7:12:29 PM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
7/2/2026, 7:12:29 PM
Behavior tags
apkandroid
Community classification

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