File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Safe

Unsigned binary with zero detections across 65 engines including 15 tier-1 vendors; clean behaviour profile and normal PE structure.

Trust score88High trust
MT AI confidence · 82%
faangband.exe
2.1 MB
bf44d81c557810933c35180c7f0d
Antivirus engines
0 of 73 flagged
Code signing
Unsigned
Age
First seen 5y 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.

82%Confidence
High
Reasoning

The sample exhibits a strong benign profile: zero malicious detections across a broad engine network with 15 tier-1 vendors reporting clean, no tier-1 family consensus, and no offensive MITRE techniques. Behaviour is limited to ambient patterns (system-info discovery, DLL search-order handling) consistent with standard installer or utility software. The file is unsigned and rare (2 submissions since 2021), but the complete absence of detections across high-trust engines and the clean runtime behaviour rule out sophisticated undetected malware. PE structure is normal (entropy 4.64, no packers). No external intelligence corroborates any threat.

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. engines: 0/65 malicious; tier1Malicious=0; tier1ReportedClean=15 (Avast, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Kaspersky, Fortinet, GData, Emsisoft, F-Secure, Avira, DrWeb)

  2. signing.verified=false, unsigned; no signer history; no brand mismatch detected

  3. behaviour: 2 ambient MITRE (T1082, T1574.002); zero offensive techniques; zero malicious sandbox verdicts; zero malicious contacted hosts

  4. prevalence: rare_old (2 submitters, 2021-10-04); externalIntel all negative (CIRCL, YARAify, MalwareBazaar)

  5. PE analysis: entropy=4.64 (normal), no packers, highEntropyCode=false, likelyPacked=false

Points in its favour
  • Zero detections across 65 engines including 15 tier-1 vendors
  • Clean behaviour profile: only ambient MITRE techniques, no offensive patterns
  • Normal PE entropy and structure; no packer signatures
  • No external intelligence hits (CIRCL, YARAify, MalwareBazaar)
  • No malicious sandbox verdicts, contacted hosts, or dropped children
What to do

This file is safe. No malware indicators are present. If you downloaded it from an official source, you may use it with confidence.

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

0 detections across 73 engines

0 malicious0 suspicious73 clean
Tier-117 engines
0flag
Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)
Tier-238 engines
0flag
Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates
Low-trust18 engines
0flag
Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)
All 73 engines report this file as clean.
Hash bf44d81c5578… cross-referenced against 73 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 4.64Unpacked
Section entropy10 sections
.text
5.95
.data
3.50
.rdata
4.90
.bss
0.00
.idata
5.29
.CRT
0.28
.tls
0.21
.rsrc
2.95
/4
2.04
/19
5.96
0.0Packed threshold 7.28.0
Prevalence

How often this file shows up in the wild

Rarely uploaded, but has been around for a while. Often niche legitimate software or old internal tooling; not a strong malware signal on its own.

Rare & old
Unique uploaders
2
Very few people have ever uploaded this — rare.
Total submissions
2
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen by VT
5y ago
Oct 4, 2021
Prevalence quadrant
Rare · New
Targeted malware lives here
Common · New
Just-released software
here
Rare · Old
Niche or internal tooling
Common · Old
Trusted legitimate binaries
File identity

Forensic fingerprint

File biography
First seen (VT)
10/4/2021, 11:57:10 AM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
11/8/2021, 11:23:17 AM
Scanned here
6/29/2026, 8:19:32 PM
File name
faangband.exe
Size
2.14 MB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
Win32 EXE
SHA-256
bf44d81c557810933c50398904a16eb85b2b57787fcb9e257807cb35180c7f0d
MD5
99144c82497f0ddd610eaea84dc23afd
SHA-1
b0303bcd0152dba706e0af71bdcfdce04617f1f9
PE imphash
72a842fb6f05e5bb0d7d87651643103c
First seen (VT)
10/4/2021, 11:57:10 AM
Last analysis (VT)
11/8/2021, 11:23:17 AM
First scan (MalwareTips)
6/29/2026, 8:19:32 PM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
6/29/2026, 8:19:32 PM
Behavior tags
peexeruntime-modulesdirect-cpu-clock-accessoverlay
Community classification

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