File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Safe

Zero engine detections on a 3-year-old Android APK despite one direct-IP heuristic flag.

Trust score82Moderate trust
MT AI confidence · 78%
android-comfastie4mlg-142.apk
66.4 MB
a18f41b93e21e7c1bff03586bb02
Antivirus engines
0 of 74 flagged
Code signing
Unsigned
Age
First seen 3y 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.

78%Confidence
High
Reasoning

The complete absence of malicious engine detections across tier-1 and tier-2 vendors is the dominant signal. The single triggered heuristic on direct-IP usage is noteworthy but not corroborated by sandbox results, dropped files, or external intelligence. Unsigned status and the heuristic together keep the file from a perfect clean score, yet the age and submission volume argue against active malice.

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. engines: 0 malicious out of 74 total, tier1Malicious=0

  2. behaviour.contactedIps: 5.255.255.77 and 87.250.250.120 with zero domains

  3. triggeredHeuristics[0].rule: MalwareTips.Synth.DirectIpC2 fired true

  4. signing.signed: false, prevalence.classification: medium

  5. externalIntel.yaraify.ruleCount: 0, circl.hit: false

Points in its favour
  • Zero engine detections
  • Medium prevalence over 1179 days
  • No sandbox or external-intel malicious signals
Points against
  • Unsigned APK
  • Direct IP contact without DNS (heuristic trigger)
What to do

The file can be considered safe for use provided it originates from a trusted distribution channel and device security settings are kept current.

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 2 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
    5.255.255.77 · 87.250.250.120
Antivirus engine breakdown

0 detections across 74 engines

0 malicious0 suspicious74 clean
Tier-118 engines
0flag
Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)
Tier-237 engines
0flag
Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates
Low-trust19 engines
0flag
Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)
All 74 engines report this file as clean.
Hash a18f41b93e21… cross-referenced against 74 AV engines via our AV network.
Prevalence

How often this file shows up in the wild

Moderate prevalence — neither rare nor common. No strong prior applies.

Medium
Unique uploaders
36
Moderate upload volume.
Total submissions
46
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen by VT
3y ago
Apr 12, 2023
Prevalence quadrant
Rare · New
Targeted malware lives here
Common · New
Just-released software
Rare · Old
Niche or internal tooling
Common · Old
Trusted legitimate binaries
File identity

Forensic fingerprint

File biography
First seen (VT)
4/12/2023, 12:31:43 AM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
4/12/2023, 12:31:43 AM
Scanned here
7/4/2026, 4:50:09 AM
File name
android-comfastie4mlg-142.apk
Size
66.40 MB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
Android
SHA-256
a18f41b93e21e7c1bf2bbb0df5084362bac85ce9db6e75c78e2921f03586bb02
MD5
6358a2bcf2df49620d63eeb51cc1ab27
SHA-1
bf375a9959d075ff7d782ce8abe0014c291bc260
First seen (VT)
4/12/2023, 12:31:43 AM
Last analysis (VT)
4/12/2023, 12:31:43 AM
First scan (MalwareTips)
7/4/2026, 4:50:09 AM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
7/4/2026, 4:50:09 AM
Behavior tags
apkandroidcontains-elfruntime-modulesreflection
Community classification

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