File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is Battlegrounds_
A lone generic detection lacks corroboration from major antivirus engines, the test run, host reputation checks, or malware-specific external intelligence.
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Moderate evidence · No engine flags it, but no publisher signature confirms who made it.
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Antivirus results
1 of 66 flagged
- Flagged 1
- No detection 65
- No result 9
- Code signing Unsigned
- Test run Completed
- First seen 7y ago
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Why we think so
3 points against it and 5 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
Only 1 of the 66 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this older executable, using a generic label, while no major antivirus engines detected it. One sandbox run found no offensive behavior, and the complete host-reputation check found no known harmful contacts, although the unsigned status and updater-process interaction warrant ordinary caution.
The detection is isolated: only tehtris reported Generic.Malware, while the major antivirus engines produced no malicious findings. A completed sandbox run returned clean and recorded no offensive techniques, persistence, or dropped files. The host-reputation check covered all 17 distinct observed contacts and found none known to be malicious or suspicious; four contacts were analysis-environment background traffic. MalwareBazaar and YARAify supplied no corroboration, and the antivirus analysis found neither packing nor high-entropy code. The unsigned status and recorded interaction with two updater processes reduce certainty, but they do not outweigh the broad lack of independent corroboration.
What We Detected
Only 1 of the 66 antivirus engines that checked it flagged the executable. That finding came from tehtris as the generic label Generic.Malware; no major antivirus engines reported malware and no named family consensus exists.
Threat Behavior
One completed sandbox run returned clean, with no offensive techniques, persistence indicators, dropped files, or malicious files it created recorded. The run listed interaction with two updater processes, but there was no offensive injection mapping or malicious sandbox finding to establish harmful intent. The host-reputation check covered all 17 distinct observed contacts and found none known to be malicious or suspicious; four listed contacts were identified as analysis-environment background traffic.
What To Do Now
The isolated generic detection most likely represents a false positive. Because the executable is unsigned, obtain it from the original game installation media or another trusted source, verify its hash when possible, and keep security software enabled while running it.
Where this verdict could be wrong3 caveats
- The executable is unsigned, so its publisher and integrity cannot be verified through code signing.
- tehtris reported the generic label Generic.Malware, though no other engine corroborated it.
- The sandbox recorded interaction with two updater processes; without a mapped offensive technique or supporting detections, its intent remains unclear.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- No major antivirus engines flagged the file.
- The completed sandbox run found no offensive behavior, persistence, or dropped files.
- All 17 observed hosts received reputation coverage, with none known as malicious or suspicious.
- No malware-specific external-intelligence rules or known-sample matches were found.
- The antivirus analysis found no packing or high-entropy code.
- The Windows executable is unsigned, so there is no authenticated publisher identity.
- One antivirus engine reported a generic malware detection.
- The sandbox recorded interaction with two updater processes, but did not establish malicious intent.
6 sources checked · all complete. See every source
Chapter 03
What it did in our test
It ran in our isolated test environment; no test environment rated what it did as risky.
Test run summary
Capture complete- 13sandbox rule tags
- 2spawned processes
- 3network contacts
- 15filesystem & mutex artifacts
Includes the sandbox verdicts, 13 mapped techniques and every process, file, registry and network entry.
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Technical details
1 of the 66 antivirus engines that checked it flags it; no publisher signature.
Sources checked
Every check behind this verdict
6 sources checked · all complete. Complete means the check returned a usable result; it does not mean the file is safe.
Engines that flagged it 1
The saved verdict treats these detections as likely false positives.
- tehtrisGeneric.Malware
File fingerprint
- Last analyzed
- Oct 17, 2026, 9:53 AM UTC
- SHA-256
d64e7f0ecc546c3bd833c5c6a7bc97b75ee74940d89b1cb22349b0ace0f3fc58- SHA-1
13ad66e8365a2aca974b1a5ccbfcaad07fc78eea- MD5
3ea18c203edd0b01502841e3a0c51ceb
About this file
Battlegrounds_x2.exe is a Win32 EXE file of 2.8 MB.
- Type and size
- Win32 EXE · 2.8 MB
- Signer
- UnsignedNo code signature.
- First seen
- Apr 12, 2019On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 99 distinct sources
- Packer
- None detected
- Entropy
- 6.21 of 8
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