Is Xeno.dll safe?
No antivirus engine detected Xeno.dll, and one sandbox recorded no offensive behavior, though its unverified signer and an uncorroborated researcher warning warrant caution.
All 75 antivirus engines returned no detection, including 17 tier-1 engines, while one sandbox produced neither a malicious assessment nor offensive behavior. The DLL also has substantial prevalence, but the unverified signature and a researcher annotation alleging anti-debugging and external URLs prevent absolute assurance.
9d16d62878486d6caa…559fbc424b3a3dRecommended next actions
Before using
Use it only as part of software obtained from the developer's official site or another source you independently trust.
If you already used it
Keep normal device protection enabled and stop if the file behaves unexpectedly.
Intelligence
The saved assessment, checked against the scan evidence and recorded coverage.
The reasoning behind this verdict
This section explains the evidence supporting the verdict and keeps conflicting or missing signals visible.
All 75 antivirus engines returned no detection, including 17 tier-1 engines, while one sandbox produced neither a malicious assessment nor offensive behavior. The DLL also has substantial prevalence, but the unverified signature and a researcher annotation alleging anti-debugging and external URLs prevent absolute assurance.
The strongest evidence is the complete absence of detections across 75 engines, including 17 reporting tier-1 products. One completed sandbox run recorded eight ambient techniques but no offensive techniques, persistence, dropped payloads, or malicious sandbox assessment. Static analysis found no likely packing or high-entropy executable code, and the file has appeared through 575 sources in 669 submissions. The signature attributed to Rizve A is not verified in the available evidence and has no publisher history, so it adds no trust. A researcher annotation alleges malicious behavior and network indicators, but those claims are not corroborated by the engine results, saved runtime contacts, or external-intelligence services. No complete contacted-host reputation result is available.
What We Detected
None of 75 antivirus engines flagged Xeno.dll, including all 17 reporting tier-1 engines. The file has also been submitted 669 times by 575 distinct sources, providing meaningful prevalence.
Threat Behavior
One completed sandbox run recorded eight ambient techniques, including system discovery and anti-analysis-related activity, but behaviour.offensiveCount remained 0 and no malicious sandbox assessment, persistence indicators, dropped hashes, or observed network contacts were recorded. Static PE analysis found no likely packer and no high-entropy executable code.
Important Limitations
The signer, Rizve A, is not a trusted publisher in the available records, signing verification is unresolved, and no signer history exists. A researcher annotation alleges anti-debugging, obfuscation, and several URLs, but the annotation has no votes and lacks independent corroboration here. contactedHosts was not completed or saved, so no full host-reputation conclusion is available.
What To Do Now
Use the DLL only if it came from an expected, reputable source and its hash matches the publisher's official release. Keep endpoint protection enabled and avoid loading it with rundll32 on a production system if its origin is uncertain.
Where this verdict could be wrong3 caveats
- communityComments[0] cites an external malicious assessment and indicators including anti-debugging, obfuscation, and three URLs, although it has zero votes and no independent payload corroboration.
- file.tags includes 'invalid-signature' and 'detect-debug-environment'; the signer is not trusted and has no historical sample record.
- contactedHosts=null, so no complete host-reputation cross-check is available for the URLs mentioned only in the researcher annotation.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- 0/75 antivirus engines reported a detection.
- All 17 reporting tier-1 engines returned clean results.
- One sandbox produced no malicious assessment and no offensive techniques.
- No persistence indicators, dropped file hashes, or observed network contacts were recorded.
- 575 sources and 669 submissions indicate meaningful prevalence.
- Signature verification is unresolved and file.tags includes 'invalid-signature'.
- Signer 'Rizve A' is not a curated trusted publisher and has no historical sample record.
- file.tags includes 'detect-debug-environment'.
- A zero-vote researcher annotation alleges malicious behavior and external network indicators.
- No complete contacted-host reputation cross-check is available.
Use only a copy obtained from a trusted official source, and verify this SHA-256 against the publisher's release record. Keep endpoint protection enabled and quarantine the DLL if its origin cannot be established.
Coverage & freshness
Complete means the check returned a usable result. It does not mean the file is safe.
Antivirus
Complete0 of 75 engines flagged the file.
Sandbox
Complete1 isolated runtime environment contributed observations.
Network
Not runNo contacted-host reputation check is recorded.
No timestamp recordedYARA
CompleteRule evaluation completed with no recorded matches.
External intel
Complete3 of 3 independent reference sources completed.
Behavior
Plain-English impact first, then the observed runtime evidence.
Runtime flight recorder
Capture complete- 1isolated sandbox run
- 8MITRE ATT&CK techniques
- 8spawned processes
- 0network contacts
- 1filesystem & mutex artifacts
Attack story
Runtime observations grouped by analysis stage. Arrows organize the stages; they do not claim chronology or causality.
Input file
The submitted object
- FileObserved
Xeno.dll
9d16d62878486d6caad6536c702de88165d2b07aaf124dd090559fbc424b3a3d
01Uploaded file
Processes
Runtime execution
- ProcessObserved
Observed process
"C:\Windows\sysnative\rundll32.exe" "C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\init.dll",#1
02Isolated runtime analysis - ProcessObserved
Observed process
C:\Windows\System32\loaddll64.exe loaddll64.exe "C:\Users\user\Desktop\readme.dll"
03Isolated runtime analysis - +1 more recorded observation in Analyst mode
Files
Created or changed
- Written fileObserved
Connect
\Device\ConDrv\\Connect
04Isolated runtime analysis
4 recorded facts from one runtime window. Every fact remains independently traceable in Analyst mode.
What this file did when executed
This file was detonated in 1 sandbox and its runtime behaviour was observed.
Adversary techniques mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- \Device\ConDrv\\Connect
Detection & Forensics
Consensus, attribution, signatures, code structure, prevalence, and identity.
Evidence integrity
Chain of custody for the facts preserved in this report.
- 0rule hits recorded
- 0 / 75engines flagged
- 575sources in submission history
Why these facts are shown
Each statement identifies whether it was directly recorded or derived from saved scan facts.
- 01
0 of 75 antivirus engines flagged the file.
Verdict inputView chapterProvenanceObservedSourceAntivirus analysisObserved at - 02
The hash has been submitted 669 times from 575 sources.
ProvenanceDerivedSourceSaved report factsObserved at - 03
Scanned file: Xeno.dll — 9d16d62878486d6caad6536c702de88165d2b07aaf124dd090559fbc424b3a3d
ProvenanceObservedSourceUploaded fileObserved at - 04
Observed process — "C:\Windows\sysnative\rundll32.exe" "C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\init.dll",#1
ProvenanceObservedSourceIsolated runtime analysisObserved at - 05
Observed process — C:\Windows\System32\loaddll64.exe loaddll64.exe "C:\Users\user\Desktop\readme.dll"
ProvenanceObservedSourceIsolated runtime analysisObserved at - 06
File written: Connect — \Device\ConDrv\\Connect
ProvenanceObservedSourceIsolated runtime analysisObserved at
Detection sources at a glance
The available sources did not agree on a named threat category.
MalwareBazaar, YARAify, and CIRCL hashlookup completed and returned no entries for this hash.
YARA rules
No matchesThe rule pass completed without a saved public match.
0 of 75 engines flagged this file
View all 75 engine results
Section entropy & packers
No high-entropy executable section or known packer signature was detected. Data and resource sections can still have high entropy without indicating packed code.
How widely this file has been seen
Moderate prevalence — neither rare nor common. No strong prior applies.
Fingerprint and provenance
- File name
- Xeno.dll
- Format
- Win32 DLL
- Code signing
- Signature not verified: Rizve A
- Size
- 2.3 MB
- Last analyzed
- Sep 14, 2026, 2:46 PM UTC
9d16d62878486d6caad6536c702de88165d2b07aaf124dd090559fbc424b3a3dSafety & FAQ
Complete recovery guidance and answers for the next decision.
What to do now
This file appears low risk based on the evidence available now.
- Recovery step 01
Use it only as part of software obtained from the developer's official site or another source you independently trust.
- Recovery step 02
A clean result reduces known risk, but it cannot guarantee that every new or targeted threat has been detected.
- Recovery step 03
Keep your antivirus and Windows updates switched on so you stay protected.
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