File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Safe

Blizzard-signed Battle.net installer with 17 tier-1 engines clean; single low-trust generic detection is a false positive.

Verified · Blizzard Entertainment
Trust score85High trust
MT AI confidence · 88%
Battle.net-Setup.exe
4.7 MB
de5d32d4ea5eed5a9e7f0b87fcaf
Antivirus engines
1 of 74 flagged
Code signing
Signed by Blizzard Entertainment
Age
First seen 10 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.

88%Confidence
Very high
Reasoning

The file exhibits the signed commercial false-positive shape: verified signature from a curated trusted publisher (Blizzard), zero tier-1 malicious detections, only one low-trust generic heuristic flag, no malicious sandbox verdict, no malicious children, and no malicious contacted hosts. The 409 submissions from 306 unique sources in 10 days reflect a widely distributed, recently released installer. The DirectIpC2 heuristic fired because the sample contacted 7 IPs without DNS queries, but those IPs resolve to legitimate Blizzard services (battle.net, telemetry-in.battle.net), not external C2. Installers routinely contact their vendor's infrastructure directly for telemetry and updates.

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.tier1Malicious=0; 17 tier-1 engines (Avast, BitDefender, Kaspersky, ESET, Fortinet, etc.) all clean

  2. signing.verified=true, trustedPublisher.matched=true for Blizzard Entertainment (curated publisher)

  3. 1/70 malicious detection is Webroot (low-trust) with generic label 'W32.Malware.gen'; no family consensus

  4. prevalence.classification='common_new' — 306 submitters, 409 submissions in 10 days (legitimate distribution pattern)

  5. Contacted IPs resolve to battle.net and telemetry-in.battle.net (legitimate Blizzard infrastructure, not malicious C2)

Points in its favour
  • Signed by Blizzard Entertainment (curated trusted publisher)
  • 17 tier-1 antivirus engines report clean
  • Contacted IPs resolve to legitimate Blizzard infrastructure
  • High prevalence (409 submissions, 306 unique sources) in 10 days
  • No malicious sandbox verdict, no malicious children, no malicious contacted hosts
What to do

This file is safe. It is the official Battle.net installer from Blizzard Entertainment. The single low-trust detection is a false positive; no action is required.

Sources disagree

1 contradiction resolved by the scoring engine

Only low-trust / heuristic engines flagged this file
1 engine 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
9

Adversary techniques mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

T1071T1082T1095T1105T1106T1497T1560T1562.001T1573
Spawned processes
2
$(unnamed)
"C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\Battle.net-Setup.exe"
$(unnamed)
"C:\Users\user\Desktop\Battle.net-Setup.exe"
Network activity
9
IP addresses7
  • 52.202.132.189
  • 137.221.105.136
  • 8.8.8.8
  • 54.156.112.159
  • 137.221.104.171
  • 137.221.105.232
  • 162.159.36.2
URLs2
  • http://nydus.battle.net/geoip
  • https://telemetry-in.battle.net/data
Filesystem & mutexes
11
Files written11
  • C:\ProgramData\Battle.net\Setup\bna_2\Logs\battle.net-setup-20260611T040441.log
  • C:\ProgramData\Battle.net\Setup\bna_2\Logs\battle.net-setup-20260607T233920.log
  • C:\ProgramData\Battle.net
  • C:\ProgramData\Battle.net\Setup
  • C:\ProgramData\Battle.net\Setup\bna_2
+6 more
Dropped payload

Files this sample writes at runtime

This file drops 2 children at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache.

2 unseen
  • 8d806babfccfe5574d79233a20Never scanned
    never seen before
  • f363a5b849f95f5726a877e27aNever 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 7 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
    52.202.132.189 · 137.221.105.136 · 8.8.8.8
Antivirus engine breakdown

1 detection across 74 engines

1 malicious0 suspicious73 clean
Tier-117 engines
0flag
Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)
Tier-237 engines
0flag
Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates
Low-trust20 engines
1flag
Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)
Webroot
malicious
W32.Malware.gen
Hash de5d32d4ea5e… cross-referenced against 74 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 7.61Unpacked
Section entropy5 sections
.text
6.71
.rdata
6.07
.data
5.08
.rsrc
6.41
.reloc
6.61
0.0Packed threshold 7.28.0
Prevalence

How often this file shows up in the wild

Lots of people are uploading this but it's recent — typical of newly-released legitimate software. Low prior for malware.

Common & new
Unique uploaders
306
Hundreds of people have uploaded this — common.
Total submissions
409
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen by VT
10d ago
Jun 10, 2026
Prevalence quadrant
Rare · New
Targeted malware lives here
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)
6/10/2026, 5:03:59 PM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
6/20/2026, 5:55:04 AM
Scanned here
6/20/2026, 8:00:20 PM
File name
Battle.net-Setup.exe
Size
4.67 MB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
Win32 EXE
SHA-256
de5d32d4ea5eed5a9e120027fb68b370976dbfecc8f2a8f91305977f0b87fcaf
MD5
b789a6f741f6391b5c6dd227b1693db5
SHA-1
af4985fdc59f40c8313457911c073ee122d72339
PE imphash
79dbe573912bfd2d08a3c01a29dfeaed
First seen (VT)
6/10/2026, 5:03:59 PM
Last analysis (VT)
6/20/2026, 5:55:04 AM
First scan (MalwareTips)
6/20/2026, 8:00:20 PM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
6/20/2026, 8:00:20 PM
Code signer
Blizzard Entertainmentverified
Community reputation
+1trusted
Behavior tags
detect-debug-environmentsignedlong-sleepspeexeoverlay
Community classification

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