Is IHP Internet Tray Icon Installer.exe safe?
Two high-trust detections, an unsigned and newly observed origin, and possible process injection and LSASS access make this installer unsafe to run casually.
The installer drew 14 detections from 74 engines, including two high-trust products, but no specific family achieved consensus. Runtime evidence maps activity to process injection and startup persistence and raises an LSASS-access concern, while the file is unsigned and newly observed. Keep it quarantined unless its source and integrity can be independently verified.
b344ba007a45ddb61f…026e24014efc23Recommended next actions
Before installing
Do not install it until the source and publisher can be verified independently.
If you already installed it
Stop using it, scan the device, and watch for unexpected behavior or security alerts. Download a fresh installer from the developer's official site or an official app store.
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.
The installer drew 14 detections from 74 engines, including two high-trust products, but no specific family achieved consensus. Runtime evidence maps activity to process injection and startup persistence and raises an LSASS-access concern, while the file is unsigned and newly observed. Keep it quarantined unless its source and integrity can be independently verified.
Fourteen of 74 engines flagged the executable, with Microsoft identifying a generic Wacatac trojan and Sophos assigning a PUA label. Although most high-trust engines did not detect it and no family consensus exists, two independent high-trust detections require caution. The completed sandbox recorded T1055 process-injection and T1547.001 persistence mappings, plus a heuristic concern involving LSASS, but it did not issue an explicit malware verdict. The file is unsigned, newly observed, and has no signer history or prior similar-file decisions to establish legitimacy. Four dropped components were inspected without a confirmed malicious result, but all remain unclassified, and no complete host-reputation cross-check is available.
What We Detected
14 of 74 antivirus engines flagged this executable. Microsoft reported Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!ml, Sophos reported Generic ML PUA, and several other products used generic malicious or downloader labels. No named family achieved tier-1 consensus, so the detections establish meaningful risk without reliably identifying one malware family.
Threat Behavior
One completed sandbox run mapped activity to MITRE T1055 for possible process injection and T1547.001 for startup persistence. A separate heuristic raised concern about activity involving LSASS, the Windows credential process, although the saved evidence does not prove credential theft. The sandbox did not produce an explicit malicious verdict, and four dropped components remain unclassified rather than confirmed benign. No complete contacted-host reputation result is available.
What To Do Now
Do not run the installer on a normal or production system. Keep endpoint protection enabled, quarantine the file, and obtain a fresh copy only from the software publisher's verified release channel. If it has already run, perform a full endpoint scan and review startup entries, services, and account activity.
Where this verdict could be wrong5 caveats
- 15 of 17 tier-1 engines did not flag the file, and engines.tier1FamilyConsensus.family is null.
- behaviour.hasMaliciousSandboxVerdict=false, so the completed sandbox did not issue an explicit malware verdict.
- externalIntel.yaraify.ruleCount=0 and externalIntel.malwareBazaar.hit=false provide no researcher-curated family corroboration.
- peAnalysis.highEntropyCode=false and peAnalysis.likelyPacked=false reduce concern about concealed packed code.
- No complete contacted-host reputation result is available because contactedHosts is null, although the recorded sandbox run listed no network contacts.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- 15 of 17 tier-1 engines did not flag the sample
- No strong tier-1 malware-family consensus
- The sandbox issued no explicit malicious verdict
- No inspected child was confirmed malicious
- Static analysis found no likely packing or high-entropy code section
- 14 of 74 antivirus engines reported a detection
- Two high-trust engines flagged the executable
- Unsigned executable with no publisher history
- Newly observed with only one known submission source
- MITRE T1055 process-injection mapping
- MITRE T1547.001 startup-persistence mapping
Keep the file quarantined and verify it directly with the claimed publisher before use. If it already executed, keep endpoint protection enabled and run a full system scan.
Coverage & freshness
Complete means the check returned a usable result. It does not mean the file is safe.
Antivirus
Complete14 of 74 engines flagged the file.
Sandbox
Complete1 isolated runtime environment contributed observations.
Network
Not runNo contacted-host reputation check is recorded.
No timestamp recordedYARA
Complete2 signature or behavior rules matched.
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
- 23MITRE ATT&CK techniques
- 11spawned processes
- 0network contacts
- 17filesystem & mutex artifacts
What this file does
Observed actions and their security significance
High concern: Injected code into another process, a technique that can conceal execution.
High concern: Changed an auto-start location that can make code run after sign-in or restart.
Moderate concern: Contained obfuscated or packed code that makes inspection harder.
Moderate concern: Runs hidden system commands (script or shell).
Moderate concern: Communicated over a common application protocol; malware can use this for command-and-control.
Moderate concern: Scans through your files and folders.
Moderate concern: Communicates over the network in a non-standard way.
These are observed capabilities from an isolated analysis. A technique does not prove malicious intent on its own, and the file never ran on your device.
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
IHP Internet Tray Icon Installer.exe
b344ba007a45ddb61f2d15bc1965199e814bd99ab4e231a065026e24014efc23
01Uploaded file
Processes
Runtime execution
- ProcessObserved
Observed process
"C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\IHP Internet Tray Icon Installer.exe"
02Isolated runtime analysis - ProcessObserved
Observed process
C:\Windows\system32\services.exe
03Isolated runtime analysis - +1 more recorded observation in Analyst mode
Files
Created or changed
- Written fileObserved
Download-1.tmp
C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\FontCache\Fonts\Download-1.tmp
04Isolated runtime analysis - Written fileObserved
Program Files
C:\Program Files
05Isolated runtime analysis - +1 more recorded observation in Analyst mode
5 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.
- C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\FontCache\Fonts\Download-1.tmp
- C:\Program Files
- C:\Program Files\IHP Internet
- C:\Program Files\IHP Internet\Tray Icon
- C:\Program Files\IHP Internet\Tray Icon\__tmp_rar_sfx_access_check_6165562
- C:\Program Files\IHP Internet\Tray Icon\__tmp_rar_sfx_access_check_6165562
- \Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\Microsoft.Windows.Health.TestInProduction.RegistryStore.AggregateResults
Files this sample writes at runtime
This file drops 4 children at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache.
- 6963bdd6dbfe811f8474…62c6aeNever scannednever seen before
- 3faed203dc04c9405c39…638b0aNever scannednever seen before
- 8c70637ad2881e770015…2ff261Never scannednever seen before
- 24a6d860b83009cc514e…e9ab58Never scannednever seen before
Detection & Forensics
Consensus, attribution, signatures, code structure, prevalence, and identity.
Evidence integrity
Chain of custody for the facts preserved in this report.
- 2rule hits recorded
- 14 / 74engines flagged
- 1sources in submission history
Why these facts are shown
Each statement identifies whether it was directly recorded or derived from saved scan facts.
- 01
1 high-confidence signature or behavior rule matched this file.
Verdict inputView chapterProvenanceDerivedSourceSignature and behavior rulesObserved at - 02
14 of 74 antivirus engines flagged the file, including APEX and Bkav.
Verdict inputView chapterProvenanceObservedSourceAntivirus analysisObserved at - 03
The hash has been submitted 1 time from 1 source.
ProvenanceDerivedSourceSaved report factsObserved at - 04
Scanned file: IHP Internet Tray Icon Installer.exe — b344ba007a45ddb61f2d15bc1965199e814bd99ab4e231a065026e24014efc23
ProvenanceObservedSourceUploaded fileObserved at - 05
Observed process — "C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\IHP Internet Tray Icon Installer.exe"
ProvenanceObservedSourceIsolated runtime analysisObserved at - 06
Observed process — C:\Windows\system32\services.exe
ProvenanceObservedSourceIsolated runtime analysisObserved at - 07
File written: Download-1.tmp — C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\FontCache\Fonts\Download-1.tmp
ProvenanceObservedSourceIsolated runtime analysisObserved at - 08
File written: Program Files — C:\Program Files
ProvenanceObservedSourceIsolated runtime analysisObserved at
Detection sources at a glance
Category: generic-trojan
MalwareBazaar, YARAify, and CIRCL hashlookup completed and returned no entries for this hash.
Signatures and behavior heuristics
A community signature or high-severity behavioral heuristic matched. Signatures identify known patterns; heuristics are strong leads but are not proof on their own.
The saved runtime evidence maps this activity to MITRE T1055 (Process Injection). The mapping supports possible process injection, but it does not prove the exact injection method or the operator's intent.
EvidenceC:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k LocalSystemNetworkRestricted -p -s WdiSystemHostSandbox observed process activity targeting LSASS (Windows credential store). Legitimate software has no business reading LSASS memory — this is Mimikatz-shape behaviour.
EvidenceC:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe
14 of 74 engines flagged this file
View all 74 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
Barely seen in the wild and first surfaced recently. 14 antivirus detections make that low prevalence materially relevant, but rarity alone is not proof of malware.
Fingerprint and provenance
- File name
- IHP Internet Tray Icon Installer.exe
- Format
- Win32 EXE
- Code signing
- No verified publisher
- Size
- 708.3 KB
- Last analyzed
- Sep 16, 2026, 3:35 AM UTC
b344ba007a45ddb61f2d15bc1965199e814bd99ab4e231a065026e24014efc23Safety & FAQ
Complete recovery guidance and answers for the next decision.
What to do now
We couldn't fully clear this file. Treat it with caution.
- Recovery step 01
Don't install it unless you're certain it came from a source you trust.
- Recovery step 02
Check where you got it — an unexpected attachment or a random download link is a red flag.
- Recovery step 03
If its origin cannot be confirmed, delete this file and use a fresh copy from a trusted source. Download a fresh installer from the developer's official site or an official app store.
- Recovery step 04
If you're still unsure, scan it again in a day or two — detections often catch up on newer files.
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