File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is installscript.
Text-based Steam install manifest with zero detections across 48 engines and years of benign history.
Moderate evidence · No engine flags it, but no publisher signature confirms who made it.
Retain the file; it is a legitimate Steam install manifest with no security risk.
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We found nothing harmful in this file.
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Antivirus results
0 of 48 flagged
- Flagged 0
- No detection 48
- Code signing Not applicable
- Test run Not applicable
- First seen 13y ago
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Why we think so
0 points against it and 3 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
All 48 engines returned clean. The file is a Steam installscript.vdf manifest, a common non-executable text file used by the Steam client. No malicious indicators are present.
Zero malicious detections from 48 engines, including 17 major antivirus engines, rules out active threats. The file is a plain-text Steam manifest with an installer hint, not an executable. Long-term prevalence since 2013 and absence of external-intel hits confirm it is a legitimate component of the Steam platform.
What We Detected
48 of 48 engines reported the file clean. No major or less reliable engine assigned a malicious label. The file is a 1 kB text manifest named installscript.vdf, a standard Steam component.
Threat Behavior
No sandbox execution data, no files it created, and no external-intel hits. The file contains no executable code and cannot perform malicious actions.
What To Do Now
The file is safe to keep or replace from official Steam sources. No further action is required.
- Zero detections across 48 engines
- Long-established benign prevalence since 2013
- Non-executable text file type
6 sources checked · 4 complete · 2 not needed or not applicable. See every source
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Technical details
None of the 48 antivirus engines that checked it flag it.
Sources checked
Every check behind this verdict
6 sources checked · 4 complete · 2 not needed or not applicable. Complete means the check returned a usable result; it does not mean the file is safe.
File fingerprint
- Last analyzed
- Sep 6, 2026, 6:47 AM UTC
- SHA-256
b8335dbc343b5746ad03bd5867c5f1b29c7087ecb6f6bcc3d0c0811dc1cefebb- SHA-1
feb893b3747a816003e6c97d43f00d15767ea2c5- MD5
8d4c88ee2aaca09cc08d288496da1c44
About this file
installscript.vdf is a Text file of 1.0 kB.
- Type and size
- Text · 1.0 kB
- Signer
- Not applicable
- First seen
- Oct 1, 2013On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 5 distinct sourcesRarely seen: few people have submitted this exact file.
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Includes every engine result (48) and how widely the file has been seen.
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