File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Suspicious

Unsigned JAR with direct-IP contact and two offensive MITRE techniques but zero engine detections.

Trust score48Caution
MT AI confidence · 55%
Unconfirmed 959177.crdownload
39.0 MB
d46aa0675383d7b905a7c1e9e7b1
Antivirus engines
0 of 74 flagged
Code signing
Unsigned
Age
First seen 3mo 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.

55%Confidence
Moderate
Reasoning

Zero malicious detections from 65 reporting engines including 16 tier-1 engines rules out strong malware consensus. However, the sandbox recorded direct-IP contact to 162.159.36.2 without any DNS resolution and logged T1543.002 plus T1562.001, both flagged by the DirectIpC2 heuristic. The JAR is unsigned with no signer history, six dropped children returned unknown, and external intelligence sources returned no matches. Medium prevalence (124 submitters) prevents a rare_new classification that would heighten suspicion. The combination of behavioural red flags without corroborating engine or external signals produces a borderline mixed-signals assessment.

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.malicious=0 and engines.tier1Malicious=0 across 65 reporting engines

  2. behaviour.contactedIps=["162.159.36.2"] with zero domains triggered MalwareTips.Synth.DirectIpC2 heuristic

  3. signing.signed=false and signing.signerStats.found=false

  4. droppedChildren.hasMaliciousChild=false and droppedChildren.rollup.malicious=0

  5. externalIntel.yaraify.ruleCount=0 and externalIntel.circl.hit=false

Points in its favour
  • Zero malicious detections from 65 reporting engines
  • No malicious dropped children
  • Medium prevalence across 124 submitters
Points against
  • Direct-IP contact without DNS resolution
  • Two offensive MITRE techniques observed in sandbox
  • Unsigned JAR with no signer history
What to do

Isolate and monitor the sample; re-scan periodically and avoid execution until additional corroborating data emerges.

Runtime behaviour

What this file did when executed

This file was detonated in 1 sandbox and its runtime behaviour was observed.

MITRE ATT&CK
10

Adversary techniques mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

T1064T1082T1106T1202T1518.001T1543.002T1562.001T1564T1564.001T1564.003
Spawned processes
11
$(unnamed)
"C:\Program Files\Java\jre-1.8\bin\java.exe" -jar "C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\sample.jar"
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\system32\icacls.exe C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\.oracle_jre_usage /grant "everyone":(OI)(CI)M
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c ""C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_441\bin\java.exe" -javaagent:"C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\jartracer.jar" -jar "C:\Users\user\Desktop\runtime.jar"" >> C:\cmdlinestart.log 2>&1
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\System32\conhost.exe C:\Windows\system32\conhost.exe 0xffffffff -ForceV1
$(unnamed)
"C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_441\bin\java.exe" -javaagent:"C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\jartracer.jar" -jar "C:\Users\user\Desktop\runtime.jar"
$(unnamed)
/bin/sh sh -c /usr/lib/rsyslog/rsyslog-rotate logrotate_script /var/log/syslog
$(unnamed)
/usr/lib/rsyslog/rsyslog-rotate
$(unnamed)
/usr/bin/systemctl systemctl kill -s HUP rsyslog.service
+3 more processes captured.
Network activity
1
IP addresses1
  • 162.159.36.2
Filesystem & mutexes
13
Files written11
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\hsperfdata_<USER>\5364
  • C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\.oracle_jre_usage\3903daac9bc4a3b7.timestamp
  • C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\.oracle_jre_usage\17dfc292991c8786.timestamp
  • C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\hsperfdata_user
  • C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\hsperfdata_user\6844
+6 more
Files deleted2
  • C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\hsperfdata_user\5544
  • /tmp/hsperfdata_root/4976
Dropped payload

Files this sample writes at runtime

This file drops 6 children at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache.

6 unseen
  • 2194942fe20fc4079e01e4b13dNever scanned
    never seen before
  • 07284ffa84eb56e344e9651b00Never scanned
    never seen before
  • 3f8096f14540c8e18e4ead10b8Never scanned
    never seen before
  • d87c5f3cdfb5b7c0510e1ade9eNever scanned
    never seen before
  • 44a3bab2c338e3bca24cd3b9e7Never scanned
    never seen before
  • ac941ead01d5451a7a9f253227Never scanned
    never seen before
No researcher-database hits
External threat-intel sources were not collected for this scan.
Signature matches

YARA + heuristic rules that fired

One or more medium-severity heuristic rules matched. Not definitive, but the patterns match known malware behaviour.

1 synthesis
MITRE ATT&CK profile
C2× 1
MalwareTips synthesis rules
Our heuristics on VT data + sandbox behaviour
  • DirectIpC2medium

    Sample contacted 1 external IP address(es) and zero domains. Benign software virtually always uses DNS; no-DNS direct-IP C2 is a strong malware indicator because it bypasses reputation systems and dodges domain-based blocklists.

    Evidence
    162.159.36.2
Antivirus engine breakdown

0 detections across 74 engines

0 malicious0 suspicious74 clean
Tier-116 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 74 engines report this file as clean.
Hash d46aa0675383… cross-referenced against 74 AV engines via our AV network.
Prevalence

How often this file shows up in the wild

Moderate prevalence — neither rare nor common. No strong prior applies.

Medium
Unique uploaders
124
Hundreds of people have uploaded this — common.
Total submissions
127
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen by VT
3mo ago
Mar 31, 2026
Prevalence quadrant
Rare · New
Targeted malware lives here
Common · New
Just-released software
Rare · Old
Niche or internal tooling
Common · Old
Trusted legitimate binaries
File identity

Forensic fingerprint

File biography
First seen (VT)
3/31/2026, 10:38:11 PM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
6/26/2026, 2:37:09 PM
Scanned here
7/4/2026, 8:33:10 AM
File name
Unconfirmed 959177.crdownload
Size
38.98 MB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
JAR
SHA-256
d46aa0675383d7b905d7e7735bc5b5ffa785f57dc34d054a19d75fa7c1e9e7b1
MD5
d4f90285f10f59372a4563b9418f53b1
SHA-1
e16a9d71c74b67a0d800fcc3e688b7c77e806f04
First seen (VT)
3/31/2026, 10:38:11 PM
Last analysis (VT)
6/26/2026, 2:37:09 PM
First scan (MalwareTips)
7/4/2026, 8:33:10 AM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
7/4/2026, 8:33:10 AM
Behavior tags
checks-cpu-namesets-process-namedetect-debug-environmentjar
Community classification

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