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Trust score50Caution
Forza Horizon 6 Setup.exe
8.3 MB
bbfe3a6d42ef76b4bee3c422c0bd
Antivirus engines
2 of 75 flagged
Code signing
Unsigned
Age
First seen 4mo ago
MT AI Engine · Verdict analysis

The reasoning behind this verdict

The MT AI Engine weighs every signal from this scan — antivirus detections, sandbox behaviour, code signing, prevalence and historical matches — to reach a single, evidence-based verdict.

30%Confidence
Exploratory
Reasoning

Our AI analyst is temporarily unavailable. Based on the raw antivirus data we have (2 malicious of 71 reporting engines), we can't commit to a verdict confidently — re-scan in a few minutes for the full AI assessment.

Key signals · 3

Each signal cites a concrete token from the evidence the arbiter saw — engine name, MITRE technique, signer string, or an exact count.

  1. AI arbiter unavailable (reason: grok_exception:This operation was aborted)

  2. engines.tier1Malicious=0

  3. engines.reporting=71

Recommended action

Wait a few minutes and re-scan for the full AI assessment before deciding.

What to do now

There isn't enough information to give this file a clear rating.

  1. Be cautious — an unknown rating is not the same as a clean bill of health.

  2. Only run it if it came directly from the official maker of the software.

  3. When in doubt, don't open it — or scan it again later once it's more widely seen.

Sources disagree

1 contradiction resolved by the scoring engine

Only low-trust / heuristic engines flagged this file
2 engines from the heuristic / generic-AI set flagged it. No tier-1 engine agreed.
Detection weight reduced in scoring.
Runtime behaviour

What this file did when executed

This file was detonated in 1 sandbox and its runtime behaviour was observed.

MITRE ATT&CK
11

Adversary techniques mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

T1027· Obfuscated codeT1027.002· Obfuscated codeT1036T1057· Lists programsT1071· Remote server (C2)T1082· System reconT1083· Scans your filesT1129· Loads modulesT1497.001· Sandbox evasionT1539T1548
Spawned processes
2
$(unnamed)
"C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\Forza Horizon 6 Setup.exe"
$(unnamed)
"C:\Users\user\Desktop\Forza Horizon 6 Setup.exe"
Network activity
1
IP addresses1
  • 162.159.36.2
Filesystem & mutexes
20
Files written15
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\genteert.dll
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\gentee83.tmp
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\gentee83\guig.dll
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\gentee83\setup_temp.gea
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\gentee83\coverPC.jpg
+10 more
Files deleted3
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\gentee83
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Forza Horizon 6\_ci_gentee
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Forza Horizon 6
Mutexes created2
  • ci589824390
  • \Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\ci589824390
Dropped payload

Files this sample writes at runtime

This file drops 10 children at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache.

10 unseen
  • 4ff3c7fa3947bf4719ccbcce01Never scanned
    never seen before
  • b666e6bd71eff3547fb231460aNever scanned
    never seen before
  • 5d96f7c1e1d4c30e15f5956623Never scanned
    never seen before
  • 85cb016a61be38dca7e8357465Never scanned
    never seen before
  • 005c251c21d6a5ba1c328420aaNever scanned
    never seen before
  • a7ee7af20b49a31764ac7ec364Never scanned
    never seen before
  • 92b14e891426d54302ed6a7f48Never scanned
    never seen before
  • 31cd36670f7ba226a2a4baf633Never scanned
    never seen before
  • c8ed921512f4aa3c950afd50fbNever scanned
    never seen before
  • 133818badf5289e9f45023efb1Never scanned
    never seen before
No researcher-database hits
External threat-intel sources were not collected for this scan.
Signature matches

YARA & heuristic rule matches

One or more medium-severity heuristic rules matched. Not definitive, but the patterns match known malware behaviour.

1 synthesis
MITRE ATT&CK profile
C2× 1
MalwareTips synthesis rules
Our own detection rules, applied to the scan data and sandbox behaviour
  • DirectIpC2medium

    Sample contacted 1 external IP address(es) and zero domains. Benign software virtually always uses DNS; no-DNS direct-IP C2 is a strong malware indicator because it bypasses reputation systems and dodges domain-based blocklists.

    Evidence
    162.159.36.2
Antivirus engine breakdown

2 detections across 75 engines

2 malicious0 suspicious73 clean
Tier-117 engines
0flag
Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)
Tier-241 engines
0flag
Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates
Low-trust17 engines
2flag
Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)
Cylance
malicious
Unsafe
Trapmine
malicious
malicious.moderate.ml.score
Hash bbfe3a6d42ef… cross-referenced against 75 AV engines via our AV network.
PE forensics

Section entropy & packers

Section-level entropy and packer detection from the PE header. Nothing suspicious here — entropy is within the normal range for unpacked code.

ent 8.00Unpacked
Section entropy5 sections
.text
5.94
.rdata
1.73
.data
1.01
.gentee
7.94
.rsrc
7.99
0.0Packed threshold 7.28.0
Prevalence

How widely this file has been seen

Moderate prevalence — neither rare nor common. No strong prior applies.

Medium
Unique uploaders
20
Moderate upload volume.
Total submissions
23
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen
4mo ago
Apr 4, 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)
4/4/2026, 11:53:09 AM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
5/12/2026, 11:05:51 PM
Scanned here
5/13/2026, 1:37:35 PM
File name
Forza Horizon 6 Setup.exe
Size
8.31 MB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
Win32 EXE
SHA-256
bbfe3a6d42ef76b4bed051c094e0dedfe9ef6b8978e668be12b439e3c422c0bd
MD5
ebc02b9a1268572d08abcee56aa93a30
SHA-1
6af4d452146d0e1f69f7f684fe44d0e2fce6616e
PE imphash
d221b1dc8c3a08622f6512e7876527c8
First seen (VT)
4/4/2026, 11:53:09 AM
Last analysis (VT)
5/12/2026, 11:05:51 PM
First scan (MalwareTips)
5/13/2026, 1:37:36 PM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
5/13/2026, 1:37:35 PM
Behavior tags
overlaypeexe
Frequently asked

Safety FAQ

Common questions about Forza Horizon 6 Setup.exe, answered from the scan data above.

  • We can't give Forza Horizon 6 Setup.exe a confident verdict yet — too few engines have an opinion on this exact file. Uncommon or brand-new files often show little coverage before vendors catch up, so treat it as untrusted: don't run it unless you're certain of the source.
  • Forza Horizon 6 Setup.exe is a Windows executable program, about 8.3 MB. We identify a file by its cryptographic hash rather than its name, because the same filename can be reused by completely different files — the hash below is the reliable fingerprint.
  • 2 of 75 antivirus engines flagged Forza Horizon 6 Setup.exe, 2 of them as outright malicious. A small number of detections can include false positives, so we weigh which engines flagged it and what else the file does, not just the raw count.
  • The SHA-256 hash of Forza Horizon 6 Setup.exe is bbfe3a6d42ef76b4bed051c094e0dedfe9ef6b8978e668be12b439e3c422c0bd, and its MD5 is ebc02b9a1268572d08abcee56aa93a30. This hash is the file's unique fingerprint — two files with the same SHA-256 are identical. Use it to confirm you're looking at exactly this file (not just one with the same name) when comparing against antivirus databases or a download's published checksum.
  • This report reflects the scan run on May 13, 2026. Because a file's hash never changes, the identity of Forza Horizon 6 Setup.exe is fixed — but antivirus coverage improves over time, so a file that looks clean today can pick up detections later (and vice-versa). If you need the latest picture, MalwareTips staff can re-run the analysis from scratch.
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