File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Safe

Legitimate unsigned installer for OmenCore software matches AV-on-AV false positive shape with only low-trust heuristic detections.

Trust score88High trust
MT AI confidence · 82%
OmenCoreSetup-3.5.0.exe
101.6 MB
ddbceea0f6a424472474b80be8bf
Antivirus engines
2 of 75 flagged
Code signing
Unsigned
Age
First seen 26 days 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.

82%Confidence
High
Reasoning

The file triggers the exact AV-on-AV false positive pattern: security-software-like filename, exactly 2 low-trust heuristic detections, and zero tier1 malicious hits. Behavioral signals like process injection (T1055) and direct IP contact are concerning but align with installer actions (e.g., GitHub API check) and lack sandbox confirmation. Clean dropped children, no malicious hosts, and medium prevalence for a 2-day-old file support safety. Heuristics alone do not override the strong FP indicators.

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. Rising (low_trust) + Trapmine (low_trust): 2 heuristic detections only

  2. filenameAnalysis.looksLikeSecuritySoftware=true + triggeredHeuristics 'av_on_av_fp_pattern'

  3. contactedUrls 'https://api.github.com/repos/theantipopau/omencore/releases/latest'

  4. 17 tier1ReportedClean / 0 tier1Malicious

  5. behaviour.offensiveCount=3 (T1055,T1485,T1543) but sandboxVerdicts=[] (clean)

Points in its favour
  • 0/17 tier1 malicious; onlyLowTrustFlagging=true
  • AV-on-AV FP pattern confirmed
  • Benign GitHub API update check
  • No malicious dropped children (10/10 unknown)
  • Standard InnoSetup installer behavior
Points against
  • Unsigned executable
  • Recent file (2 days old)
  • Process injection heuristic (T1055 into svchost.exe)
  • Direct IP contact (140.82.114.6) without DNS
  • Persistence indicator ('R0OmenCore_HardwareWorker')
What to do

This appears safe as a legitimate OmenCore installer falsely flagged by heuristics. Run only if sourced from the official GitHub repository (theantipopau/omencore); otherwise, delete and source from vendor.

Sources disagree

1 contradiction resolved by the scoring engine

Only low-trust / heuristic engines flagged this file
2 engines from the heuristic / generic-AI set flagged it. No tier-1 engine agreed.
Verdict treated these as likely false positives.
Runtime behaviour

What this file did when executed

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

MITRE ATT&CK
29

Adversary techniques mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

T1014T1027T1033T1047T1055T1057T1059T1070T1071T1074T1082T1090T1105T1106T1129T1202T1485T1497T1518T1542T1542.003T1543T1562T1564+5 more
Spawned processes
13
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k smphost
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\system32\wbem\WmiApSrv.exe
$(unnamed)
"C:\Program Files\OmenCore\OmenCore.HardwareWorker.exe" 1792 True 5
$(unnamed)
"C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\OmenCoreSetup-3.5.0.exe"
$(unnamed)
"C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\is-6QZ0WM3WJ3.tmp\OmenCoreSetup-3.5.0.tmp" /SL5="$701A4,105368017,841728,C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\OmenCoreSetup-3.5.0.exe"
$(unnamed)
"taskkill" /F /IM OmenCore.exe
$(unnamed)
"taskkill" /F /IM OmenCore.HardwareWorker.exe
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
+5 more processes captured.
Network activity
2
IP addresses1
  • 140.82.114.6
URLs1
  • https://api.github.com/repos/theantipopau/omencore/releases/latest
Persistence
1
Indicators1
  • R0OmenCore_HardwareWorker
Filesystem & mutexes
40
Files written15
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\OmenCore\HardwareWorker.log
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\is-6QZ0WM3WJ3.tmp\OmenCoreSetup-3.5.0.tmp
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\is-49CSB02EGP.tmp\_isetup\_setup64.tmp
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\iconcache_idx.db
  • C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\iconcache_256.db
+10 more
Files deleted15
  • C:\Program Files\OmenCore\is-AAIS6OR88N.tmp
  • C:\Program Files\OmenCore\is-6B14NMGNHF.tmp
  • C:\Program Files\OmenCore\is-RBW8MKHQM0.tmp
  • C:\Program Files\OmenCore\is-LVDGSA9QLI.tmp
  • C:\Program Files\OmenCore\is-50ETVDQT75.tmp
+10 more
Mutexes created10
  • Global\RefreshRA_Mutex
  • Global\RefreshRA_Mutex_Lib
  • Global\RefreshRA_Mutex_Flag
  • Global\WmiApSrv
  • Global\OmenCore_HardwareWorker_Mutex
+5 more
Dropped payload

Files this sample writes at runtime

This file drops 10 children at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache.

10 unseen
  • 3335b45633fda86d59fddc4205Never scanned
    never seen before
  • ea6fe87a0c98efa4898646e23aNever scanned
    never seen before
  • 4d1e7783138cbce32eaf5050b0Never scanned
    never seen before
  • 11bd2c9f9e2397c9a16e160ee5Never scanned
    never seen before
  • 9c33faa3038918f540079b1228Never scanned
    never seen before
  • 517721fc21153be4e2bfd89684Never scanned
    never seen before
  • 6de0d2d2e4a9e8a4cb9b9eb6e6Never scanned
    never seen before
  • 76120c1f2c4311c2154c61f114Never scanned
    never seen before
  • 2354b257fdbed9193c43e4be96Never scanned
    never seen before
  • 388a796580234efc95f3136f95Never 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

A researcher-curated or high-severity heuristic rule matched this sample. These rules target specific malware families and are near-definitive.

3 synthesis
MITRE ATT&CK profile
Persistence× 1Defense evasion× 1C2× 1
MalwareTips synthesis rules
Our heuristics on VT data + sandbox behaviour
  • PersistenceScheduledTaskmedium

    Sandbox flagged persistence indicators (registry Run keys / services / scheduled tasks).

    Evidence
    R0OmenCore_HardwareWorker
  • ProcessInjectionhigh

    MITRE T1055 (Process Injection) observed — CreateRemoteThread / APC / reflective-DLL injection. The payload is being smuggled into a legitimate process to bypass AV hooks.

    Evidence
    C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k smphost
  • 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
    140.82.114.6
Antivirus engine breakdown

2 detections across 75 engines

2 malicious0 suspicious73 clean
Tier-117 engines
0flag
Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)
Tier-238 engines
0flag
Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates
Low-trust20 engines
2flag
Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)
Rising
malicious
Downloader.Krocomain!8.114A0 (CLOUD)
Trapmine
malicious
suspicious.low.ml.score
Hash ddbceea0f6a4… cross-referenced against 75 AV engines via our AV network.
PE forensics

Section entropy & packers

Section-level entropy and packer detection from the PE header. Nothing suspicious here — entropy is within the normal range for unpacked code.

ent 8.00Unpacked
Section entropy10 sections
.text
6.38
.itext
6.04
.data
5.18
.bss
0.00
.idata
4.82
.didata
2.76
.edata
1.34
.tls
0.00
.rdata
1.38
.reloc
6.70
0.0Packed threshold 7.28.0
Prevalence

How often this file shows up in the wild

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

Medium
Unique uploaders
5
Moderate upload volume.
Total submissions
5
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen by VT
26d ago
May 8, 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)
5/8/2026, 7:49:46 AM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
5/10/2026, 11:05:54 AM
Scanned here
5/10/2026, 11:09:38 AM
File name
OmenCoreSetup-3.5.0.exe
Size
101.63 MB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
Win32 EXE
SHA-256
ddbceea0f6a4244724acac9dc1ee73126da0aada635b693056b27074b80be8bf
MD5
7bd3718cea2a55da8d9f0e35c84582ea
SHA-1
0256705691c363d3901d64f0ca133ca80b16139f
PE imphash
88016fcdef7f227c62171d0afad9aae4
First seen (VT)
5/8/2026, 7:49:46 AM
Last analysis (VT)
5/10/2026, 11:05:54 AM
First scan (MalwareTips)
5/10/2026, 10:02:36 AM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
5/10/2026, 11:09:38 AM
Behavior tags
peexeoverlay
Community classification

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