File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Safe

Legitimate Opera GX browser installer; zero tier-1 detections, consistent RAG history, normal unpacking behaviour.

Trust score88High trust
MT AI confidence · 92%
OperaGXSetup.exe
3.9 MB
a31da45190f84af8713129d25703
Antivirus engines
0 of 75 flagged
Code signing
Unsigned
Age
First seen 4 days 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.

92%Confidence
Very high
Reasoning

The file exhibits the classic signature of a legitimate commercial installer: zero malicious detections across 71 engines including all major tier-1 vendors (Kaspersky, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Fortinet, Avast, AVG, Avira, DrWeb, Emsisoft, F-Secure, GData), a filename matching Opera GX's official distribution pattern, and a prior safe verdict on the same imphash. The T1055 process-injection heuristic is expected behaviour for self-extracting archives and installers that unpack child processes; the absence of malicious sandbox verdicts and zero malicious dropped children confirm this is routine unpacking, not evasion. No external intelligence (YARA, CIRCL, MalwareBazaar) corroborates any threat.

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. 0/71 engines malicious; tier1Malicious=0; 16 tier-1 engines (Kaspersky, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Fortinet, Avast, AVG, Avira, DrWeb, Emsisoft, F-Secure, GData, Ikarus) all silent

  2. similarHashes: imphash e59d00b0d9... matched prior OperaGXSetup.exe verdicted 'safe' (ai:low_trust_engines_only) on 2026-06-11

  3. Filename OperaGXSetup.exe + hasInstallerHint=true + no brandMismatch — consistent with legitimate Opera GX browser distribution

  4. T1055 (Process Injection) heuristic fired but droppedChildren.hasMaliciousChild=false; child process unanalyzed (verdict=null); no malicious sandbox verdicts

  5. PE entropy 7.999938, no packers, likelyPacked=false, overlay tag (self-extracting archive pattern) — benign installer characteristics

Points in its favour
  • Zero malicious detections across 71 engines; 16 tier-1 vendors all clean
  • Prior safe verdict on identical imphash (OperaGXSetup.exe, 2026-06-11)
  • Filename and installer pattern consistent with legitimate Opera GX distribution
  • No malicious sandbox verdicts; dropped child not flagged malicious
  • No external intelligence hits (YARA, CIRCL, MalwareBazaar)
What to do

This file is safe. It is the legitimate Opera GX browser installer. You may download and install it without concern.

Runtime behaviour

What this file did when executed

This file was detonated in 1 sandbox and its runtime behaviour was observed.

MITRE ATT&CK
9

Adversary techniques mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

T1027T1055T1057T1059T1082T1083T1129T1222T1614
Spawned processes
2
$(unnamed)
"C:\Users\user\Desktop\OperaGXSetup.exe"
$(unnamed)
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS4D888107\installer.exe --server-tracking-blob=Nzc5NmQyYmJhOWUwYzk3M2I5ZmYzMjliNDM0ZTkwYjI3YWIwOGEwZjMyMjRkM2Q1ODBiZjhhN2E0ZTU4ZTRlNDp7ImNvdW50cnkiOiJSTyIsImVkaXRpb24iOiJzdGQtMiIsImZhc3Rfb25ib2FyZGluZyI6e3…
Filesystem & mutexes
3
Files written3
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS8B7DB8A3\installer.exe
  • C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS4D888107
  • C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\7zS4D888107\installer.exe
Dropped payload

Files this sample writes at runtime

This file drops 1 child at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache.

1 unseen
  • 41f6858a706267dbf378f1d8b1Never scanned
    never seen before
No researcher-database hits
External threat-intel sources were not collected for this scan.
Signature matches

YARA + heuristic rules that fired

A researcher-curated or high-severity heuristic rule matched this sample. These rules target specific malware families and are near-definitive.

1 synthesis
MITRE ATT&CK profile
Defense evasion× 1
MalwareTips synthesis rules
Our heuristics on VT data + sandbox behaviour
  • ProcessInjectionhigh

    MITRE T1055 (Process Injection) observed — CreateRemoteThread / APC / reflective-DLL injection. The payload is being smuggled into a legitimate process to bypass AV hooks.

    Evidence
    "C:\Users\user\Desktop\OperaGXSetup.exe"
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 a31da45190f8… cross-referenced against 75 AV engines via our AV network.
PE forensics

Section entropy & packers

Section-level entropy and packer detection from the PE header. Nothing suspicious here — entropy is within the normal range for unpacked code.

ent 8.00Unpacked
Section entropy5 sections
.text
6.61
.rdata
4.61
.data
4.08
.rsrc
5.26
.reloc
6.52
0.0Packed threshold 7.28.0
Prevalence

How often this file shows up in the wild

Barely seen in the wild and first surfaced recently. This is the footprint of targeted malware the AV industry hasn't signatured yet — extra scrutiny is warranted.

Rare & new
Unique uploaders
1
Very few people have ever uploaded this — rare.
Total submissions
1
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen by VT
3d ago
Jun 11, 2026
Prevalence quadrant
here
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)
6/11/2026, 10:12:43 AM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
6/11/2026, 10:12:43 AM
Scanned here
6/11/2026, 10:48:34 AM
File name
OperaGXSetup.exe
Size
3.94 MB
MIME type
application/x-msdownload
Detected type
Win32 EXE
SHA-256
a31da45190f84af871648f71500133439e9bfb122dac1ca50a43893129d25703
MD5
dc69e9ab5000e2866e5a2446f4fd0850
SHA-1
9c47d909db77b1c321c5ff0a8fb81fee6f3598b7
PE imphash
e59d00b0d90522ee1a983f13d4ff7e50
First seen (VT)
6/11/2026, 10:12:43 AM
Last analysis (VT)
6/11/2026, 10:12:43 AM
First scan (MalwareTips)
6/11/2026, 10:13:42 AM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
6/11/2026, 10:48:34 AM
Behavior tags
overlaypeexe
Community classification

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