File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Safe

Widely-distributed Pokémon game archive with 897 submissions, zero malicious detections, and 16 tier-1 engines reporting clean.

Trust score92High trust
MT AI confidence · 96%
Pokemon - SoulSilver Version (USA).zip
57.9 MB
c8b7174a6c03912226d2cd4fe27e
Antivirus engines
0 of 75 flagged
Code signing
Unsigned
Age
First seen 8y 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.

96%Confidence
Very high
Reasoning

The evidence overwhelmingly supports a safe classification. All 16 tier-1 antivirus engines (Kaspersky, Microsoft, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Avira, Fortinet, F-Secure, GData, Emsisoft, DrWeb, Avast, AVG, and others) report the file as undetected or clean. Zero engines flagged it as malicious or suspicious. The file's prevalence classification is 'common_old' with 897 submissions from 831 unique sources spanning over 8 years, demonstrating it is a widely-known and widely-distributed file. No sandbox behaviour data, no dropped children, no malicious host contact, and no external-intelligence hits (CIRCL, MalwareBazaar, YARAify) provide additional confidence. The filename is straightforward and non-adversarial.

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. tier1ReportedClean=16 engines (Kaspersky, Microsoft, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Avira, Fortinet, F-Secure, GData, Emsisoft, DrWeb, Avast, AVG, Ikarus) — all silent or explicitly clean

  2. prevalence.classification='common_old' — 897 submissions from 831 sources since 2018; no malicious reputation accumulated

  3. engines.malicious=0/65 reporting; tier1Malicious=0; onlyLowTrustFlagging=false — unanimous clean verdict across all tiers

  4. No sandbox behaviour, no dropped children, no malicious host contact, no external-intel hits (CIRCL, MalwareBazaar, YARAify all negative)

  5. Unsigned ZIP archive; filename 'Pokemon - SoulSilver Version (USA).zip' is descriptive, not adversarial; no brand mismatch

Points in its favour
  • 16 tier-1 antivirus engines report clean (Kaspersky, Microsoft, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Avira, Fortinet, F-Secure, GData, Emsisoft, DrWeb, Avast, AVG, Ikarus, and others)
  • 897 submissions from 831 unique sources since 2018 with zero malicious reputation
  • Zero malicious or suspicious detections across all 65 reporting engines
  • No sandbox malicious behaviour, no dropped children, no malicious host contact
  • No external-intelligence hits (CIRCL, MalwareBazaar, YARAify negative)
What to do

This file is safe. It is a widely-distributed, long-established Pokémon game archive with unanimous clean verdicts from all antivirus engines and no malicious reputation history. No action is required.

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

0 detections across 75 engines

0 malicious0 suspicious75 clean
Tier-117 engines
0flag
Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)
Tier-238 engines
0flag
Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates
Low-trust20 engines
0flag
Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)
All 75 engines report this file as clean.
Hash c8b7174a6c03… cross-referenced against 75 AV engines via our AV network.
Prevalence

How often this file shows up in the wild

Widely seen in the wild for a long time. High prior this is legitimate; isolated detections on common-old files are usually false positives.

Common & old
Unique uploaders
831
Hundreds of people have uploaded this — common.
Total submissions
897
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen by VT
8y ago
Apr 23, 2018
Prevalence quadrant
Rare · New
Targeted malware lives here
Common · New
Just-released software
Rare · Old
Niche or internal tooling
here
Common · Old
Trusted legitimate binaries
File identity

Forensic fingerprint

File biography
First seen (VT)
4/23/2018, 1:15:16 AM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
6/25/2026, 5:53:53 PM
Scanned here
7/1/2026, 5:34:37 AM
File name
Pokemon - SoulSilver Version (USA).zip
Size
57.95 MB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
ZIP
SHA-256
c8b7174a6c03912226c41e59a80a222246583c18301d304a768a53d2cd4fe27e
MD5
144ec7aca86247a2eb69f23fa459d819
SHA-1
46ab6ddef845c3bcdafcc38fd795a481350e85a9
First seen (VT)
4/23/2018, 1:15:16 AM
Last analysis (VT)
6/25/2026, 5:53:53 PM
First scan (MalwareTips)
7/1/2026, 5:34:37 AM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
7/1/2026, 5:34:37 AM
Behavior tags
zip
Community classification

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