File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is Layers
Single less reliable engine flag on a ZIP with five matching clean precedents.
Moderate evidence · No engine flags it, but no publisher signature confirms who made it.
The archive can be treated as safe for normal use; continue to rely on your existing security software.
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We found nothing harmful in this file.
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Antivirus results
1 of 66 flagged
- Flagged 1
- No detection 65
- No result 9
- Code signing Not applicable
- Test run Not run
- First seen 1mo ago
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Why we think so
0 points against it and 2 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
Only MaxSecure flagged the archive; 74 other engines stayed silent. Five prior ZIP files with the same pattern were rated safe under identical less reliable-only conditions.
The single detection comes from a less reliable engine and is not corroborated by any major antivirus engine. No complete contacted-host reputation result was available. No sandbox, signing, or external-intel data contradicts that pattern. The file is too new to have accumulated a meaningful reputation, but the evidence that exists points to a false positive rather than malware.
What We Detected
One less reliable engine (MaxSecure) labelled the archive Trojan.Malware.300983.susgen; all 16 major antivirus engines and 40 smaller engines returned clean. No YARA, CIRCL or MalwareBazaar rules matched.
Threat Behavior
No sandbox execution data or host-contact records are available. The archive contains a PE file, but the single less reliable flag and matching clean history for similar ZIPs indicate the detection is likely rule-based noise.
What To Do Now
Keep Windows Defender and other security software enabled. If you need the contents, scan the extracted files again after unpacking and avoid running unknown executables.
- 74 of the 66 antivirus engines that checked it returned clean
- Five prior ZIP files with identical engine pattern rated safe
6 sources checked · 4 complete · 1 not run · 1 not needed or not applicable. See every source
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Technical details
1 of the 66 antivirus engines that checked it flags it.
Sources checked
Every check behind this verdict
6 sources checked · 4 complete · 1 not run · 1 not needed or not applicable. 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.
- MaxSecureTrojan.Malware.300983.susgen
File fingerprint
- Last analyzed
- Sep 7, 2026, 10:42 AM UTC
- SHA-256
dbfc94015ca00618075d122a7263ffb062f5dd9dcd44be1b3a66c3954c2eb376- SHA-1
6ddb70387f7d431f343a4499804acacc540bb5b8- MD5
6aba00a83b914792461de64561445084
About this file
LayersChecker.zip is a ZIP file of 11.5 kB.
- Type and size
- ZIP · 11.5 kB
- Signer
- Not applicable
- First seen
- Sep 7, 2026On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 1 sourceRarely seen: few people have submitted this exact file.
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Includes every engine result (75) and how widely the file has been seen.
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