File scan report
Verdict Suspicious
Is Tracking.
One antivirus engine (tehtris) flags this Windows program; nothing else confirms it is harmful.
Why Suspicious? One antivirus engine (tehtris) flags it; nothing else confirms it.
Limited evidence · One sign points to a problem; nothing else confirms it.
Exercise caution and avoid execution on production systems; re-evaluate with additional context or updated scans.
What to do now4 steps
Some signs point to a problem, but nothing confirms it is harmful. Treat it with caution.
What to do
Don't run it unless you're sure where it came from.
Check where you got it: an unexpected attachment, a link someone sent you or a re-upload is a red flag.
If you can't confirm where it came from, delete it. If you need the program, download it again from the publisher's own website.
If you already ran it
Stop using it, run a full scan with your antivirus and watch for unexpected behavior or security alerts.
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Antivirus results
1 of 75 flagged
- Flagged 1
- No detection 74
- No result 4
- Code signing Unsigned
- Test run Completed
- First seen 2y ago
Chapter 02
Why we think so
4 points against it and 4 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
Zero major detections, clean sandbox results, and no malicious files it created or external intel hits keep the overall risk moderate rather than confirmed malicious.
Our analysis weighs the single tehtris Generic.Malware flag against the complete absence of major detections and the clean sandbox outcome. No complete contacted-host reputation result was available, yet it remains a single medium-severity rule without supporting malicious behaviour or files it created. Unsigned status and rare but long known prevalence add uncertainty but do not rise to malicious on their own. Similar-hash RAG returned no prior verdicts, leaving the mixed signals unresolved.
What We Detected
One smaller engine (tehtris) reported Generic.Malware. A medium-severity behaviour rule matched on direct external IP contact with no DNS usage. The executable is unsigned and has low prevalence.
Threat Behavior
No offensive MITRE techniques, no malicious sandbox verdicts, no malicious files it created, and no external intelligence hits. Techniques common in legitimate software observed are consistent with normal execution and discovery.
What To Do Now
Treat as untrusted. Execute only in an isolated sandbox or virtual machine. Monitor for further network activity or file drops. Re-scan with updated engines if possible.
Where this verdict could be wrong1 caveat
- Single smaller detection with 18 major clean reports and no sandbox malicious verdict could indicate a false positive or overly broad rule-based rather than confirmed malice.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- Zero malicious detections from major antivirus engines
- Clean sandbox verdicts
- No malicious files it created
- No external intelligence hits
- Direct external IP contact without domains
- Single AV detection (tehtris Generic.Malware)
- Unsigned executable
- Rare_old prevalence (3 submitters)
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 not needed or not applicable. See every source
Chapter 03
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- 10sandbox rule tags
- 9spawned processes
- 0network contacts
- 9filesystem & mutex artifacts
What the test run showed
What the file did on a test computer
Confirmed in the test run
Moderate concern: Contains packed or scrambled code that is harder to inspect (common in installers too).
Moderate concern: Ran commands or a script on the test computer.
Moderate concern: Checked whether it was running on a test computer.
Note: Read basic details of the test computer, such as its Windows version.
Note: Loaded extra code modules while running.
Note: Checked which security software was installed on the test computer.
Sandbox labels we could not confirm (common in safe files too)
Not confirmed: A sandbox rule tagged this run as contacting a server, but no contacted host was recorded.
Not confirmed: A sandbox rule tagged this run as changing how Windows loads code; nothing confirms it.
This file was run on a test computer (a sandbox), not on yours. Labels we could not confirm are listed so you can see them, but they are not treated as evidence against the file.
Recorded behavior
What happened in the test
Grouped by step. The order is not a timeline.
- 1
Input file
The submitted object
- Evidence 1 of 5: FileSeen in the test run
Tracking.exe
b3b424ab934451178eb5343cb4a9131a848f71badca5d8a1b5579d5be8095e2a
Uploaded file
- 2
Processes
What ran
- Evidence 2 of 5: ProcessSeen in the test run
Tracking.exe
"C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\Tracking.exe"
Test run - Evidence 3 of 5: ProcessSeen in the test run
Tracking.exe
Test run - +1 more recorded observation
- 2
Files
Created or changed
- Evidence 4 of 5: Written fileSeen in the test run
log.txt
C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\log.txt
Test run - Evidence 5 of 5: Written fileSeen in the test run
config.cfg
C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\config.cfg
Test run - +1 more recorded observation
5 facts from the test run. See the full activity list.
Includes 10 mapped techniques, every process, file, registry and network entry and 2 dropped files.
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Technical details
1 of the 75 antivirus engines that checked it flags it; no publisher signature.
Sources checked
Every check behind this verdict
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 not needed or not applicable. Complete means the check returned a usable result; it does not mean the file is safe.
Engines that flagged it 1
- tehtrisGeneric.Malware
File fingerprint
- Last analyzed
- Jun 7, 2026, 2:04 AM UTC
- SHA-256
b3b424ab934451178eb5343cb4a9131a848f71badca5d8a1b5579d5be8095e2a- SHA-1
415fa88e99366972fe44d773b820a1e1eb61dcdb- MD5
d468098873adb090ea6252b3aabd9456
About this file
Tracking.exe is a Win32 EXE file of 11.6 MB.
- Type and size
- Win32 EXE · 11.6 MB
- Signer
- UnsignedNo code signature.
- First seen
- Aug 6, 2024On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 3 distinct sourcesRarely seen: few people have submitted this exact file.
- Packer
- None detected
- Entropy
- 5.98 of 8
First scanned
Includes every engine result (79), PE section entropy and packers and how widely the file has been seen.
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