File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is rufus-
A verified Akeo Consulting signature, broad antivirus agreement, clean host checks, and matching prior history outweigh one generic Bkav detection.
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Moderate evidence · No engine flags it, but no publisher signature confirms who made it.
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Antivirus results
1 of 72 flagged
- Flagged 1
- No detection 71
- No result 4
- Code signing Akeo Consulting
- Test run Completed
- First seen 8mo ago
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Why we think so
3 points against it and 5 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
Only 1 of the 72 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this executable, and that was a generic Bkav detection; none of the major antivirus engines detected it. The verified Akeo Consulting signature, matching publisher history, lack of high-risk runtime findings, and checked network destinations strongly indicate a false positive.
The executable carries a valid Akeo Consulting signature that matches a trusted publisher, and the publisher's two recorded samples were both assessed as benign. Only 1 of the 72 antivirus engines that checked it flagged it, using a generic Bkav label, while all reporting major antivirus engines remained silent. The test run found no named injection target, no malicious sandbox result, and no rare high-risk technique supported by a concrete artefact. The inspected contacted hosts produced no malicious or suspicious reputation matches. UPX packing and network access explain the behaviour-rule alert, but those features lack corroboration from stronger detections, hostile infrastructure, or malicious activity in the test run.
What We Detected
Only 1 of the 72 antivirus engines that checked it flagged the executable. Bkav supplied a generic machine-generated label, while none of the reporting major antivirus engines detected a threat. The file has a valid Akeo Consulting signature matching a trusted publisher, and the small available publisher history contains two benign samples and no malicious ones.
Threat Behavior
The executable is UPX-packed and accessed network resources, which caused one of our behaviour rules to match a dropper-like pattern. However, the sandbox runs recorded no malicious verdict, no named process-injection target, and no corroborated high-risk technique. Five contacted hosts were checked, with no malicious or suspicious reputation matches.
What To Do Now
The evidence strongly supports treating the isolated Bkav alert as a false positive. Keep security software enabled and obtain the executable from the official Rufus download channel; verify that Windows still reports a valid Akeo Consulting signature before running it.
Where this verdict could be wrong3 caveats
- The executable is UPX-packed and has high-entropy code, which can reduce static transparency even though legitimate software also uses packing.
- One less reliable engine, Bkav, reported the generic label W64.AIDetectMalware.
- One of our behaviour rules associated the packed executable, network access, and engine flag with a dropper-like profile. No complete contacted-host reputation result was available.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- The executable has a valid Akeo Consulting signature matching a trusted publisher.
- None of the reporting major antivirus engines detected a threat.
- The publisher's recorded history contains two benign samples and no malicious samples.
- No malicious sandbox result or named process-injection target was recorded.
- Five contacted hosts were checked without a malicious or suspicious reputation match.
- The executable uses UPX packing and contains high-entropy code.
- Bkav alone reported a generic malware detection.
- Network activity combined with packing caused one of our behaviour rules to match a dropper-like profile.
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 partial. See every source
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What it did in our test
It ran in our isolated test environment; no test environment rated what it did as risky.
Test run summary
Capture complete- 14sandbox rule tags
- 4spawned processes
- 10network contacts
- 11filesystem & mutex artifacts
Includes 14 mapped techniques, every process, file, registry and network entry and 2 dropped files.
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Technical details
1 of the 72 antivirus engines that checked it flags it; signed by Akeo Consulting.
Sources checked
Every check behind this verdict
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 partial. Complete means the check returned a usable result; it does not mean the file is safe.
Engines that flagged it 1
The Safe verdict weighed these detections and treats them as non-decisive.
- BkavW64.AIDetectMalware
File fingerprint
- Last analyzed
- Apr 24, 2026, 4:13 AM UTC
- SHA-256
a314db019d608e3d9b2eda797ba5bbe4dfc91bcd621decd144a580080eb13b1b- SHA-1
29c86660baa994db07599166209006708252081f- MD5
d9c4cd467677e8bb23d8d1c2350e08e3
About this file
rufus-4.13.exe is a Win32 EXE file of 1.9 MB.
- Type and size
- Win32 EXE · 1.9 MB
- Signer
- Akeo ConsultingValid code signature.
- First seen
- Feb 17, 2026On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 3,719 distinct sources
- Packer
- UPX (section names)Packing hides code; legitimate installers use it too.
- Entropy
- 7.62 of 8A code section is highly compressed or encrypted.
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Verdict history
- Safe
- Maliciousafter a new scan
- Safeafter a new scan
Ratings change when antivirus engines, our checks or MalwareTips staff learn more about a file.
Includes every engine result (76), 1 matched signature rule, PE section entropy and packers and how widely the file has been seen.
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