File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Safe

Zero malicious detections across 64 engines including 17 tier-1 vendors; medium prevalence (1501 submitters) indicates established benign distribution.

Trust score88High trust
MT AI confidence · 92%
Prodkeys-22.0.0.zip
7.2 KB
b73573af5eae6c9f77dc88fca71c
Antivirus engines
0 of 74 flagged
Code signing
Unsigned
Age
First seen 4mo 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. All 17 tier-1 antivirus engines report the file as undetected or clean, with zero malicious consensus. The 64-engine reporting pool shows zero malicious detections and zero suspicious flags. The file's medium prevalence across 1501 submitters over three months suggests it is a known, widely distributed utility rather than a rare or novel threat. The filename 'Prodkeys-22.0.0.zip' with numeric versioning is consistent with legitimate portable software. No adversarial input flags, triggered heuristics, external intelligence hits, sandbox malicious verdicts, or malicious host contacts were detected. The unsigned status is not unusual for freeware or portable utilities.

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; tier1ReportedClean=17 (Kaspersky, Microsoft, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Fortinet, Avira, Emsisoft, F-Secure, GData, Ikarus, DrWeb, Avast, AVG all undetected)

  2. prevalence.classification='medium' — 1501 unique submitters, 1624 submissions since 2026-03-17 — established distribution pattern

  3. engines.malicious=0/64 reporting; onlyLowTrustFlagging=false (no low-trust detections either) — universal clean consensus

  4. No external-intel hits: CIRCL=false, YARAify.ruleCount=0, MalwareBazaar=false; no sandbox malicious verdict; no malicious contacted hosts

  5. filenameAnalysis: hasNumericVersion=true, looksLikePortable=true, but looksLikeSecuritySoftware=false — consistent with legitimate portable software

Points in its favour
  • Zero malicious detections across 64 engines
  • 17 tier-1 vendors all report clean/undetected
  • Medium prevalence (1501 submitters, 1624 submissions) — established distribution
  • No external intelligence hits (CIRCL, YARAify, MalwareBazaar)
  • No malicious sandbox verdict, contacted hosts, or dropped children
What to do

This file is safe to use. The universal clean consensus across 64 antivirus engines, including all major tier-1 vendors, combined with medium prevalence indicating established distribution, confirms benign status.

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

0 detections across 74 engines

0 malicious0 suspicious74 clean
Tier-117 engines
0flag
Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)
Tier-237 engines
0flag
Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates
Low-trust20 engines
0flag
Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)
All 74 engines report this file as clean.
Hash b73573af5eae… cross-referenced against 74 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
1,501
Hundreds of people have uploaded this — common.
Total submissions
1,624
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen by VT
4mo ago
Mar 17, 2026
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)
3/17/2026, 3:03:35 PM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
6/19/2026, 10:08:40 AM
Scanned here
7/4/2026, 1:36:54 AM
File name
Prodkeys-22.0.0.zip
Size
7.2 KB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
ZIP
SHA-256
b73573af5eae6c9f7739ca9931cebf04774cf2ba9d6ee98f2f04c2dc88fca71c
MD5
04942f8c1c2e422be53a8a3ec997f53f
SHA-1
5b7d6702fee2f95a70d4984f15c0044add40c7e2
First seen (VT)
3/17/2026, 3:03:35 PM
Last analysis (VT)
6/19/2026, 10:08:40 AM
First scan (MalwareTips)
7/4/2026, 1:36:54 AM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
7/4/2026, 1:36:54 AM
Behavior tags
zip
Community classification

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