File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Safe

RAR archive with no malicious detections across 18 tier-1 engines and 526 days of circulation; consistent with legitimate installer.

Trust score88High trust
MT AI confidence · 92%
installer.rar
4.5 MB
ae9c8347758fd17ec4e10c09e030
Antivirus engines
0 of 75 flagged
Code signing
Unsigned
Age
First seen 1y 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 evidence strongly supports a benign classification. Zero tier-1 malicious detections across major vendors (Microsoft, Kaspersky, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Fortinet, McAfee, Avast, AVG, Avira, DrWeb, Emsisoft, F-Secure, GData, Ikarus) combined with zero malicious labels in the entire detection set indicates no consensus on harmful intent. The absence of sandbox behaviour data, dropped children, malicious host contacts, and external intelligence hits (CIRCL, MalwareBazaar, YARAify) further reinforces benign status. The filename suggests a legitimate installer, and the 526-day submission history with medium prevalence is typical of commodity software rather than active malware.

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. tier1Malicious=0; 18 tier-1 engines (Microsoft, Kaspersky, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Fortinet, McAfee, Avast, AVG, Avira, DrWeb, Emsisoft, F-Secure, GData, Ikarus) all undetected

  2. 0/61 reporting engines flagged malicious; allMaliciousLabels array empty

  3. No sandbox behaviour data, no dropped children, no malicious host contacts, no external intel hits (CIRCL, MalwareBazaar, YARAify all false)

  4. Medium prevalence: 72 unique submitters, 82 submissions over 526 days — consistent with legitimate installer distribution

  5. filenameAnalysis.hasInstallerHint=true; no adversarial flags; triggeredHeuristics empty

Points in its favour
  • 18 tier-1 antivirus engines report clean (Microsoft, Kaspersky, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Fortinet, McAfee, Avast, AVG, Avira, DrWeb, Emsisoft, F-Secure, GData, Ikarus)
  • Zero malicious detections across all 61 reporting engines
  • No sandbox malicious verdicts, no dropped children, no malicious host contacts
  • No external intelligence hits (CIRCL, MalwareBazaar, YARAify all negative)
  • Medium prevalence over 526 days (72 submitters, 82 submissions) consistent with legitimate software distribution
What to do

This file is safe to use. It shows no signs of malware across comprehensive antivirus scanning and behaviour analysis. If obtained from a trusted source, proceed with normal extraction and use.

No researcher-database hits
External threat-intel sources were not collected for this scan.
Antivirus engine breakdown

0 detections across 75 engines

0 malicious0 suspicious75 clean
Tier-118 engines
0flag
Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)
Tier-236 engines
0flag
Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates
Low-trust21 engines
0flag
Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)
All 75 engines report this file as clean.
Hash ae9c8347758f… cross-referenced against 75 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
72
Moderate upload volume.
Total submissions
82
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen by VT
1y ago
Jan 17, 2025
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)
1/17/2025, 9:44:07 AM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
1/17/2025, 9:44:07 AM
Scanned here
6/27/2026, 8:54:07 PM
File name
installer.rar
Size
4.47 MB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
RAR
SHA-256
ae9c8347758fd17ec40d36de14e625444d19d9db2a9013f130c970e10c09e030
MD5
f20933e4a02ba1079a8c831f18245475
SHA-1
62a469aa639fb4e2bae8148e6ca2ab08f66dd141
First seen (VT)
1/17/2025, 9:44:07 AM
Last analysis (VT)
1/17/2025, 9:44:07 AM
First scan (MalwareTips)
6/27/2026, 8:54:07 PM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
6/27/2026, 8:54:07 PM
Behavior tags
rar
Community classification

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