File scan report
Verdict Malicious
Is A Plague Tale Ultrawide.
The file is consistently identified as a Cheat Engine-based game hack or riskware tool: 33 of the 71 antivirus engines that checked it flagged it, including six major antivirus…
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Strong evidence · Two or more major antivirus engines agree.
Keep it only if you installed it on purpose for security testing. Otherwise delete it and run a full antivirus scan.
What to do now4 steps
This is a hacking tool. It is risky to keep and run, but finding it is not by itself a sign that the device is infected.
What to do
Don't run it unless you got it on purpose for security testing on systems you own. Delete it, then empty the Recycle Bin.
If you didn't put it on the device yourself, delete it and run a full antivirus scan: something else may have brought it.
Tools like this often come with cracked or pirated software. If it came that way, treat the whole download as unsafe and scan everything it installed.
If you already ran it
Stop using it, run a full scan with your antivirus and watch for unexpected behavior or security alerts.
If you opened or installed it
Avoid banking and sign-ins on that device until it is clean. These free MalwareTips guides walk you through it.
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Antivirus results
33 of 71 flagged
- Flagged 33
- No detection 38
- No result 4
- Code signing Unsigned
- Test run Completed
- First seen 6y ago
Chapter 02
Why we think so
5 points against it and 5 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
Thirty-three of the 71 antivirus engines that checked it detected the executable, and six major antivirus engines contributed detections. ESET-NOD32 specifically identified Cheat Engine hacking tool functionality, while GData and Ikarus also used hacking tool classifications. The corroborated hacking tool flag is decisive under the handling policy, regardless of whether the intended use is modifying a game. The executable is unsigned, and no complete reputation check is available for the observed direct-IP contacts.
What We Detected
Thirty-three of the 71 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this executable. Six major antivirus engines detected it, with ESET-NOD32 naming Cheat Engine and GData and Ikarus identifying hacking tool or riskware functionality. The corroborated hacking tool indicator is especially significant because multiple independent products agree on the file's process-manipulation purpose.
Threat Behavior
One completed sandbox run mapped activity to MITRE T1055, Process Injection. The sample also unpacked trainer components into a temporary directory and launched extracted executables, behavior consistent with a Cheat Engine trainer. No malicious sandbox verdict or confirmed malicious file it created was recorded, but the six dropped files remain unclassified. Direct IP contacts were observed; however, no complete host-reputation cross-check is available, so their safety cannot be established.
What To Do Now
Do not run the executable on a personal, work, or gaming account system. Remove or quarantine it while keeping security software enabled, and obtain any legitimate game modification only from a verified publisher or well-established project channel.
Where this verdict could be wrong5 caveats
- Major antivirus engines do not agree on one malware family; only 2 major antivirus engines converged specifically on Cheat Engine, although six major antivirus engines flagged the file overall.
- No sandbox returned a malicious verdict, and no dropped file is known to be malicious across 6 inspected children.
- No community YARA rule matched and the hash is not in the known-software reference database, providing no researcher-curated corroboration.
- The file is widely seen and long established with 121 sources and 128 submissions, indicating this is not a sample.
- PE analysis reports the absence of packed-level code entropy and the absence of packing indicators.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- No completed sandbox issued a malicious verdict
- No inspected file it created was confirmed malicious
- The sample is established rather than newly observed
- No high-entropy code or likely packing was identified
- No YARAify or CIRCL malicious corroboration was returned
- 33 of the 71 antivirus engines that checked it detected the executable
- Six major antivirus engines produced detections
- Corroborated Cheat Engine or hacking tool labeling
- Unsigned Win32 executable
- No complete reputation result for observed IP contacts
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 partial. 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- 14sandbox rule tags
- 14spawned processes
- 1network contact
- 32filesystem & 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: Checked whether it was running on a test computer.
Note: Listed the programs running on the test computer.
Note: Deleted files or logs during the test run (installers often clean up after themselves).
Note: Talked to servers over the internet during the test run.
Note: Read basic details of the test computer, such as its Windows version.
Note: Looked through folders on the test computer (most installers do this).
Sandbox labels we could not confirm (common in safe files too)
Not confirmed: A sandbox rule tagged this run as code injection, but no injected program was recorded.
Not confirmed: A sandbox rule tagged this run as recording keystrokes; no keylogging was confirmed.
Not confirmed: A sandbox rule tagged this run as setting up auto-start; no auto-start entry 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.
Threat context
How hacking tools are used
Hacking tools are programs that can switch off security software, test passwords or attack other computers. Security professionals use them on purpose; criminals also bundle them with malware.
Bottom line:Keep it only if you installed it on purpose, and check how it got onto the device if you didn't.
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 6: FileSeen in the test run
A Plague Tale Ultrawide.exe
bcf34541929b4cdf11e8967cbc1fc3eb5444868af1829794db75eea586d403b5
Uploaded file
- 2
Processes
What ran
- Evidence 2 of 6: ProcessSeen in the test run
file.exe
"C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\file.exe"
Test run - Evidence 3 of 6: ProcessSeen in the test run
file.exe
"C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\cetrainers\CETCD52.tmp\file.exe" -ORIGIN:"C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\"
Test run - +1 more recorded observation
- 2
Files
Created or changed
- Evidence 4 of 6: Written fileSeen in the test run
CET_Archive.dat
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\cetrainers\CETCD52.tmp\CET_Archive.dat
Test run - Evidence 5 of 6: Written fileSeen in the test run
file.exe
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\cetrainers\CETCD52.tmp\file.exe
Test run - +1 more recorded observation
- 1
Network
Hosts contacted
- Evidence 6 of 6: Contacted hostSeen in the test run
23.40.197.184
Contacted during the test run.
Test run
6 facts from the test run. See the full activity list.
What this file did when executed
This file was run in a sandbox and its runtime behaviour was observed.
Techniques observed in the sandbox
14MITRE ATT&CK techniques the sandbox mapped. Highlighted ones are rare in normal software; the others are common in legitimate programs too.
- T1010
- T1027· Obfuscated code
- T1027.002· Obfuscated code
- T1055· Process injection
- T1056· Keylogging
- T1057· Lists programs
- T1070· Covers its tracks
- T1071· Application protocol
- T1082· System recon
- T1083· Scans your files
- T1129· Loads modules
- T1497· Sandbox evasion
- T1547.008· Auto-start
- T1574.002· Execution hijack
Observed activity
Processes started
14Programs the file ran, with their command lines.
file.exe"C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\file.exe"file.exe"C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\cetrainers\CETCD52.tmp\file.exe" -ORIGIN:"C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\"file.exeC:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\cetrainers\CETCD52.tmp\extracted\file.exe "C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\cetrainers\CETCD52.tmp\extracted\CET_TRAINER.CETRAINER" "-ORIGIN:C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\"bcf34541929b4cdf11e8967cbc1fc3eb5444868af1829794db75eea586d403b5.exe%SAMPLEPATH%\bcf34541929b4cdf11e8967cbc1fc3eb5444868af1829794db75eea586d403b5.exebcf34541929b4cdf11e8967cbc1fc3eb5444868af1829794db75eea586d403b5.exe%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp\cetrainers\CETE30D.tmp\bcf34541929b4cdf11e8967cbc1fc3eb5444868af1829794db75eea586d403b5.exebcf34541929b4cdf11e8967cbc1fc3eb5444868af1829794db75eea586d403b5.exe%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp\cetrainers\CETE30D.tmp\extracted\bcf34541929b4cdf11e8967cbc1fc3eb5444868af1829794db75eea586d403b5.exe
Show all 14 entries for processes started
bcf34541929b4cdf11e8967cbc1fc3eb5444868af1829794db75eea586d403b5.exe%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp\cetrainers\CETE510.tmp\bcf34541929b4cdf11e8967cbc1fc3eb5444868af1829794db75eea586d403b5.exebcf34541929b4cdf11e8967cbc1fc3eb5444868af1829794db75eea586d403b5.exe%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp\cetrainers\CETE510.tmp\extracted\bcf34541929b4cdf11e8967cbc1fc3eb5444868af1829794db75eea586d403b5.exebcf34541929b4cdf11e8967cbc1fc3eb5444868af1829794db75eea586d403b5.exe%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp\cetrainers\CETE83D.tmp\bcf34541929b4cdf11e8967cbc1fc3eb5444868af1829794db75eea586d403b5.exebcf34541929b4cdf11e8967cbc1fc3eb5444868af1829794db75eea586d403b5.exe%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp\cetrainers\CETE83D.tmp\extracted\bcf34541929b4cdf11e8967cbc1fc3eb5444868af1829794db75eea586d403b5.exebcf34541929b4cdf11e8967cbc1fc3eb5444868af1829794db75eea586d403b5.exebcf34541929b4cdf11e8967cbc1fc3eb5444868af1829794db75eea586d403b5C:\DOCUME~1\<USER>~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\cetrainers\CET3.tmp\bcf34541929b4cdf11e8967cbc1fc3eb5444868af1829794db75eea586d403b5 C:\DOCUME~1\<USER>~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\cetrainers\CET3.tmp\bcf34541929b4cdf11e8967cbc1fc3eb5444868af1829794db75eea586d403b5" -ORIGIN:"C:\""bcf34541929b4cdf11e8967cbc1fc3eb5444868af1829794db75eea586d403b5.exeC:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\cetrainers\CETCBCD.tmp\bcf34541929b4cdf11e8967cbc1fc3eb5444868af1829794db75eea586d403b5.exe -ORIGIN:C:\Users\<USER>\Downloads\software.exe"C:\Users\user\Desktop\software.exe"
Network contacts
11 host, listed as 1 address. Links show the host and path only.
- IP address
23.40.197.184
Files
30Files the file created, changed or deleted.
- Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\cetrainers\CETCD52.tmp\CET_Archive.dat - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\cetrainers\CETCD52.tmp\file.exe - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\cetrainers\CETCD52.tmp\extracted\CET_TRAINER.CETRAINER - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\cetrainers\CETCD52.tmp\extracted\defines.lua - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\cetrainers\CETCD52.tmp\extracted\file.exe - Written
C:\Windows\System32\ntdll.dll
Show all 30 entries for files
- Written
C:\Windows\System32\kernel32.dll - Written
C:\Windows\System32\KERNELBASE.dll - Written
C:\Windows\System32\apphelp.dll - Written
C:\Windows\System32\crypt32.dll - Written
C:\Windows\System32\ucrtbase.dll - Written
C:\Windows\System32\ws2_32.dll - Written
C:\Windows\System32\rpcrt4.dll - Written
C:\Windows\System32\user32.dll - Written
C:\Windows\System32\win32u.dll - Deleted
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\cetrainers\CETCD52.tmp\extracted\CET_TRAINER.CETRAINER - Deleted
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp\cetrainers\CETE30D.tmp\extracted\CET_TRAINER.CETRAINER - Deleted
C:\Windows\System32\spp\store\2.0\cache\cache.dat - Deleted
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER3033.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml - Deleted
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER3035.tmp.csv - Deleted
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER3045.tmp.txt - Deleted
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp\cetrainers\CETE510.tmp\extracted\CET_TRAINER.CETRAINER - Deleted
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER4CD.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml - Deleted
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER644.tmp.csv - Deleted
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER684.tmp.txt - Deleted
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WERFCB.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml - Deleted
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WERFDB.tmp.csv - Deleted
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER100B.tmp.txt - Deleted
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp\cetrainers\CETE83D.tmp\extracted\CET_TRAINER.CETRAINER - Deleted
C:\Users\Virtual\AppData\Local\Temp\cetrainers\CET2126.tmp
Mutexes
2Named locks a program uses so only one copy runs; malware families often reuse them.
DBWinMutex\Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\DBWinMutex
Sandbox background — not the file
5The analysis machine's own processes and connections, recorded in every run.
- VM process
wuapihost.exeC:\Windows\System32\wuapihost.exe - VM host
a83f:8110:403:0:0:0:403:0 - VM host
20.99.132.105 - VM host
a83f:8110:0:200:0:0:0:0 - VM host
239.255.255.250
Files this sample writes at runtime
This file drops 6 children at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache. 6 have no saved verdict and were not checked; that is missing coverage, not a finding.
- 98734a612b20b2354cbc…61bba5Not checkedno saved verdict
- f2cb4b0bc5db9b97bb41…88327bNot checkedno saved verdict
- dab3003436b6861ae220…e3d6afNot checkedno saved verdict
- 81b735df4edb880bee67…006a21Not checkedno saved verdict
- 522fd7cac73f55f249b8…be8fabNot checkedno saved verdict
- 879555f1afe27b22da98…726344Not checkedno saved verdict
Chapter 04
Technical details
33 of the 71 antivirus engines that checked it flag it; no publisher signature.
Sources checked
Every check behind this verdict
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 partial. Complete means the check returned a usable result; it does not mean the file is safe.
Engines that flagged it 33
- ESET-NOD32 (major engine)Win32/HackTool.CheatEngine.AF potentially unsafe application
- Fortinet (major engine)Riskware/CheatEngine
- GData (major engine)Win32.Riskware.Hacktool.D
- Ikarus (major engine)Riskware.Win32.Hacktool
- Microsoft (major engine)PUA:Win32/Presenoker
- Sophos (major engine)Generic Reputation PUA (PUA)
- TrellixENS (major engine)GenericRXWU-YA!D50CC918E1C0
- alibabacloudHackTool:Win/CheatEngine.A#
File fingerprint
- Last analyzed
- Sep 9, 2026, 8:28 PM UTC
- SHA-256
bcf34541929b4cdf11e8967cbc1fc3eb5444868af1829794db75eea586d403b5- SHA-1
8be27d93d2f9c30c4706af78d8741baae9d888ed- MD5
d50cc918e1c0d551fe6d6a697d391273
About this file
A Plague Tale Ultrawide.exe is a Win32 EXE file of 6.0 MB.
- Type and size
- Win32 EXE · 6.0 MB
- Signer
- UnsignedNo code signature.
- First seen
- Jan 26, 2020On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 121 distinct sources
- Packer
- None detected
- Entropy
- 7.97 of 8
First scanned
Antivirus consensus
33 of 71 engines flagged this file
4 of the 75 engines returned no result for this file (file type not supported, or the scan did not finish), so they did not check it.
The 33 detections come from 30 independent scan engines: several vendors license the same engine, so their results are one vote.
- Tier-118 engines7flagged
- Tier-236 engines15flagged16 vendors sharing 15 engines
- Low-trust17 engines10flagged
View all 75 engine results
- alibabacloudMalicious: HackTool:Win/CheatEngine.A#
- Antiy-AVLMalicious: HackTool/Win32.CheatEngine
- BkavMalicious: W32.Malware.788727EB
- CrowdStrikeMalicious: win/grayware_confidence_90% (W)
- CTXMalicious: exe.hacktool.cheatengine
- CylanceMalicious: Unsafe
- CynetMalicious: Malicious (score: 100)
- DeepInstinctMalicious: MALICIOUS
- ElasticMalicious: malicious (high confidence)
- ESET-NOD32Malicious: Win32/HackTool.CheatEngine.AF potentially unsafe application
- FortinetMalicious: Riskware/CheatEngine
- GDataMalicious: Win32.Riskware.Hacktool.D
- GoogleMalicious: Detected
- GridinsoftMalicious: Ransom.Win32.Occamy.sa
- IkarusMalicious: Riskware.Win32.Hacktool
- K7AntiVirusMalicious: Unwanted-Program ( 004b8a131 )
- K7GWMalicious: Unwanted-Program ( 004b8a131 )
- LionicMalicious: Trojan.Win64.Cobalt.tpMn
- MalwarebytesMalicious: GameHack.HackTool.RiskWare.DDS
- MaxSecureMalicious: Trojan.Malware.300983.susgen
- McAfeeDMalicious: Real Protect-LS!D50CC918E1C0
- MicrosoftMalicious: PUA:Win32/Presenoker
- PaloaltoMalicious: generic.ml
- RisingMalicious: Trojan.Occamy!8.F1CD (CLOUD)
- SangforMalicious: Worm.Win32.Save.a
- SentinelOneMalicious: Static AI - Suspicious PE
- SkyhighMalicious: BehavesLike.Win32.PUP.tc
- SophosMalicious: Generic Reputation PUA (PUA)
- tehtrisMalicious: Generic.Malware
- TrapmineMalicious: malicious.high.ml.score
- TrellixENSMalicious: GenericRXWU-YA!D50CC918E1C0
- VaristMalicious: W32/ABApplication.FBXE-5680
- ZillyaMalicious: Tool.CheatEngine.Win32.6576
- AcronisClean
- AhnLab-V3Clean
- AlibabaClean
- ALYacClean
- APEXClean
- ArcabitClean
- AvastClean
- Avast-MobileNo result
- AVGClean
- AviraClean
- BitDefenderClean
- BitDefenderFalxNo result
- CAT-QuickHealClean
- ClamAVClean
- CMCClean
- DrWebClean
- EmsisoftClean
- F-SecureClean
- huorongClean
- JiangminClean
- KasperskyClean
- KingsoftClean
- MicroWorld-eScanClean
- NANO-AntivirusClean
- PandaClean
- SUPERAntiSpywareClean
- SymantecClean
- SymantecMobileInsightNo result
- TACHYONClean
- TencentClean
- TrendMicroClean
- TrendMicro-HouseCallClean
- TrustlookNo result
- VBA32Clean
- VIPREClean
- VirITClean
- ViRobotClean
- WebrootClean
- XcitiumClean
- YandexClean
- ZoneAlarmClean
- ZonerClean
Signatures and behavior heuristics
Low-severity pattern matches — worth noting but not on their own cause for alarm.
VirusTotal's sandbox summary maps this run to MITRE T1055 (Process Injection), but no injected process of the sample's own was recorded (the analysis VM's own WMI adapter, crash handlers and Chrome updater are not counted). VirusTotal maps T1055 on about half of all files no engine flags, so the mapping alone is not evidence of injection.
EvidenceT1055 (sandbox MITRE mapping)
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
Widely seen in the wild for a long time. High prior this is legitimate; isolated detections on common-old files are usually false positives.
Chapter 05
Questions & answers
Short answers to the 8 questions people ask most about this file.
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