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Verified clean — official build of Wireless Network Watcher
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Verified clean — official build

MalwareTips staff have confirmed this binary is the genuine, unmodified release from the vendor. Detections from individual AV engines (if any) are false positives against the legitimate signature, packing, or installer behaviour. If your AV continues to flag this file, submit a false-positive report to your vendor and download the file only from the official source — not from third-party mirrors, which are a common malware vector.
File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Safe

Win32 EXE named 'Wireless Network Watcher' flagged as riskware by 2 of 76 engines (APEX generic malicious, GData specific Riskware.WirelessNetworkWatcher), with all others clean.

Riskware.WirelessNetworkWatcher
Trust score1Critical
Wireless Network Watcher
1.3 MB
c5e4cb7d9900d2f3ae…ec6436d9ae
Antivirus engines
2 of 76 flagged
Code signing
Unsigned
Age
First seen 1y 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

The file presents as 'Wireless Network Watcher', a 1.3 MB Win32 EXE first seen in mid-2025. Out of 76 antivirus engines, only APEX calls it generic malicious and GData labels it Win32.Riskware.WirelessNetworkWatcher.OIW9U4, while 70 others report it undetected. No tier-1 engines like BitDefender, Kaspersky, ESET, or Avast flag it malicious. This low detection count points to a potential false positive on a legitimate network scanner tool. If run, it would likely just monitor WiFi devices without harm, but check the download source.

Points in its favour
  • 70 of 76 engines report undetected, including BitDefender, Kaspersky, ESET-NOD32, Avast, and Fortinet.
  • No popular threat labels or names assigned.
  • File name directly matches GData's riskware naming, suggesting a known legitimate tool.
  • No timeouts or type-unsupported issues beyond mobile scanners.
Points against
  • APEX detects it as malicious.
  • GData flags Win32.Riskware.WirelessNetworkWatcher.OIW9U4, indicating potential unwanted network monitoring behavior.
  • PE imphash 3fee945c7fbdb903f72e5a732ecd09b0 seen in prior scans.
  • First seen recently on 2025-06-11.
Recommended action

If from the official NirSoft site, run it safely as a network viewer. Otherwise, quarantine and delete; rescan your system with updated antivirus.

What to do now

This file looks safe based on everything we checked.

  1. This file is safe to use.

  2. Good habit: only download files from the official website or an app store.

  3. Keep your antivirus and Windows updates switched on so you stay protected.

Threat family attribution

Riskware.WirelessNetworkWatcher corroborated by 1 source

  • MT AI Engine
    Riskware.WirelessNetworkWatcher
Sources disagree

1 contradiction resolved by the scoring engine

MT AI Engine read "suspicious", displayed verdict is "safe"
A ground-truth gate (admin override, MalwareBazaar, empty-file) or the low-confidence display rule shifted the final call.
Displayed verdict tracks the harder evidence.
No researcher-database hits
External threat-intel sources were not collected for this scan.
Antivirus engine breakdown

2 detections across 76 engines

2 malicious0 suspicious74 clean
Tier-117 engines
1flag
Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)
Tier-241 engines
0flag
Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates
Low-trust18 engines
1flag
Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)
APEX
malicious
Malicious
GData
malicious
Win32.Riskware.WirelessNetworkWatcher.OIW9U4
Hash c5e4cb7d9900… cross-referenced against 76 AV engines via our AV network.
File identity

Forensic fingerprint

File biography
First seen (VT)
6/11/2025, 12:48:18 PM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
—
Last analysis (VT)
4/10/2026, 12:51:53 AM
Scanned here
4/20/2026, 2:30:10 PM
File name
Wireless Network Watcher
Size
1.29 MB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
Win32 EXE
SHA-256
c5e4cb7d9900d2f3aec665c46bea071d43c1eadef6fe311002b7d2ec6436d9ae
MD5
72e6cd9a0180500a609a938a241fb02e
SHA-1
5861f6eb34201c21700038d778e17ee7f02c6464
PE imphash
3fee945c7fbdb903f72e5a732ecd09b0
First seen (VT)
6/11/2025, 12:48:18 PM
Last analysis (VT)
4/10/2026, 12:51:53 AM
First scan (MalwareTips)
4/20/2026, 6:45:33 AM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
4/20/2026, 2:30:10 PM
Community reputation
+2trusted
Behavior tags
64bitspeexe
Frequently asked

Safety FAQ

Common questions about Wireless Network Watcher, answered from the scan data above.

  • Wireless Network Watcher appears safe. 74 of 76 antivirus engines report it clean, with only 2 low-confidence detections that read as false positives. As a habit, only open files you downloaded from the official source, since attackers sometimes distribute trojanised copies of legitimate software under the same name.
  • Wireless Network Watcher is a file, about 1.3 MB. Our analysis found no threat indicators for it. A file's name can be reused by different files, so we identify it by its cryptographic hash (below).
  • 2 of 76 antivirus engines flagged Wireless Network Watcher, 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 Wireless Network Watcher is c5e4cb7d9900d2f3aec665c46bea071d43c1eadef6fe311002b7d2ec6436d9ae, and its MD5 is 72e6cd9a0180500a609a938a241fb02e. 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.
  • Based on this scan, yes — Wireless Network Watcher shows no threat indicators. The important caveat is source: make sure you downloaded it from the official website or a trusted store, because attackers sometimes distribute malware-laced copies under a legitimate file's name. If your own antivirus flags it while we report it clean, that is most often a false positive, but verify the source before overriding your antivirus.
  • This report reflects the scan run on April 20, 2026. Because a file's hash never changes, the identity of Wireless Network Watcher 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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