Is IMG-20260930-WA0021.jpg safe?
No antivirus engine flagged this JPEG, and available external intelligence found no malware family, signature, or research-rule match associated with the file.
All 75 antivirus engines returned no malicious or suspicious finding, including 17 tier-1 engines. The file is a JPEG with no threat-intelligence matches, although its exact hash is newly observed and no runtime analysis was completed.
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If you already viewed it
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Intelligence
The saved assessment, checked against the scan evidence and recorded coverage.
The reasoning behind this verdict
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All 75 antivirus engines returned no malicious or suspicious finding, including 17 tier-1 engines. The file is a JPEG with no threat-intelligence matches, although its exact hash is newly observed and no runtime analysis was completed.
The strongest evidence is unanimous engine silence: 0 of 75 engines flagged the file, and all 17 participating tier-1 engines reported no detection. Its reported format is JPEG, for which code signing and PE-specific analysis do not apply. MalwareBazaar, CIRCL, and YARAify supplied no corroborating threat match. Five earlier image-file comparisons also received clean assessments, although file-type-only similarity carries limited weight. The exact hash is newly observed, and no completed runtime or contacted-host assessment is available, so those areas remain unverified rather than proven benign.
What We Detected
The sample is reported as a 180,696-byte JPEG. None of 75 antivirus engines flagged it as malicious or suspicious, and 17 tier-1 engines reported no detection. Available MalwareBazaar, CIRCL, and YARAify checks returned no matching malware intelligence or research rules.
Threat Behavior
No completed sandbox observation is available, so runtime behavior cannot be characterized. No complete contacted-host reputation result is available either. The exact hash was submitted only once and is newly observed, which limits historical assurance but does not outweigh the unanimous scan results.
What To Do Now
The image can generally be handled normally while keeping endpoint protection enabled and software updated. If it came from an unexpected sender or fails to render as an ordinary image, verify the source before opening it in additional applications.
Where this verdict could be wrong2 caveats
- prevalence.classification=rare_new with uniqueSources=1 and timesSubmitted=1, so the exact hash has little established history.
- behaviour=null and contactedHosts=null, leaving runtime behavior and contacted-host reputation unassessed.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- 0/75 engines reported a malicious or suspicious result.
- 17 tier-1 engines reported no detection.
- No MalwareBazaar, CIRCL, or YARAify match was found.
- 5/5 file-type comparisons previously received safe verdicts.
- Exact hash is newly observed with only 1 submission from 1 source.
- No completed runtime observation is available.
- No complete contacted-host reputation assessment is available.
Handle the file as an ordinary image while keeping endpoint protection enabled. Verify the sender if the attachment was unsolicited or behaves unlike a normal JPEG.
Coverage & freshness
Complete means the check returned a usable result. It does not mean the file is safe.
Antivirus
Complete0 of 75 engines flagged the file.
Sandbox
PartialRuntime data is present, but no completed sandbox environment is recorded.
Network
Not runNo contacted-host reputation check is recorded.
No timestamp recordedYARA
CompleteRule evaluation completed with no recorded matches.
External intel
Complete3 of 3 independent reference sources completed.
Behavior
Plain-English impact first, then the observed runtime evidence.
Runtime behavior was not available
The report does not treat a missing runtime observation as a clean result.
Detection & Forensics
Consensus, attribution, signatures, code structure, prevalence, and identity.
Evidence integrity
Chain of custody for the facts preserved in this report.
- 0rule hits recorded
- 0 / 75engines flagged
- 1sources in submission history
Why these facts are shown
Each statement identifies whether it was directly recorded or derived from saved scan facts.
- 01
0 of 75 antivirus engines flagged the file.
Verdict inputView chapterProvenanceObservedSourceAntivirus analysisObserved at - 02
No completed runtime observation is available for this file.
ProvenanceDerivedSourceRuntime coverageObserved at - 03
The hash has been submitted 1 time from 1 source.
ProvenanceDerivedSourceSaved report factsObserved at
Detection sources at a glance
The available sources did not agree on a named threat category.
MalwareBazaar, YARAify, and CIRCL hashlookup completed and returned no entries for this hash.
YARA rules
No matchesThe rule pass completed without a saved public match.
0 of 75 engines flagged this file
View all 75 engine results
PE structure
Not applicablePE structure analysis applies to Windows executable formats, not this file type.
How widely this file has been seen
Barely seen in the wild and first surfaced recently. That limits reputation evidence, but rarity alone is not proof of malware.
Fingerprint and provenance
- File name
- IMG-20260930-WA0021.jpg
- Format
- JPEG
- Code signing
- Not applicable to this file type
- Size
- 176.5 KB
- Last analyzed
- Sep 29, 2026, 10:58 PM UTC
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Complete recovery guidance and answers for the next decision.
What to do now
This file appears low risk based on the evidence available now.
- Recovery step 01
View it only when its sender or download source is one you trust.
- Recovery step 02
A clean result reduces known risk, but it cannot guarantee that every new or targeted threat has been detected.
- Recovery step 03
Keep your antivirus and Windows updates switched on so you stay protected.
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