Is Form of Contract.zip safe?
No antivirus engine detected a threat in this ZIP archive, though its recent appearance and lack of runtime analysis warrant normal caution when extracting it.
All 75 antivirus engines returned no malicious or suspicious finding, including 17 tier-1 engines. Threat-intelligence services also produced no match, but the archive is newly observed and was not executed in a sandbox, so inspect extracted files before opening them.
e3e8cf0f5257104bbf…849df10b5ec491Recommended next actions
Before opening or extracting
Open or extract it only when its sender or download source has been independently verified.
If you already opened or extracted it
Keep normal device protection enabled and stop if the file behaves unexpectedly.
Intelligence
The saved assessment, checked against the scan evidence and recorded coverage.
The reasoning behind this verdict
This section explains the evidence supporting the verdict and keeps conflicting or missing signals visible.
All 75 antivirus engines returned no malicious or suspicious finding, including 17 tier-1 engines. Threat-intelligence services also produced no match, but the archive is newly observed and was not executed in a sandbox, so inspect extracted files before opening them.
The strongest evidence is broad static agreement: 0 of 75 engines flagged the archive, and all 17 reporting tier-1 engines returned no detection. CIRCL, MalwareBazaar, and YARAify provided no corroborating threat-intelligence hits. The file is only a ZIP container, and code signing is not applicable to that format. It has been submitted only once and no completed runtime observation is available, limiting confidence about any embedded content. Five earlier ZIP files received safe decisions, although file-type-only similarity is weak and does not establish that their contents are related.
What We Detected
No malicious or suspicious result appeared across 75 antivirus engines. All 17 reporting tier-1 engines, including Kaspersky, Microsoft, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, and Fortinet, returned no detection. CIRCL, MalwareBazaar, and YARAify also produced no matching threat intelligence.
Threat Behavior
No completed sandbox run is available, so the archive's runtime behavior was not observed. No complete contacted-host reputation result is available either. Because this is a ZIP container, its risk ultimately depends on the extracted files rather than the container format alone.
What To Do Now
Keep endpoint protection enabled and scan the extracted contents before opening them. Be especially cautious with executables, scripts, shortcuts, or documents requesting macros, particularly because this archive has only one recorded submission.
Where this verdict could be wrong3 caveats
- The file is newly observed, with prevalence.uniqueSources=1 and prevalence.timesSubmitted=1, so its reputation is not yet established.
- behaviour=null and contactedHosts=null, meaning no runtime evidence or complete contacted-host reputation result is available.
- The five prior safe comparisons use matchKind=filetype only, which is weak because unrelated ZIP archives share the same format.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- 0/75 engines reported a malicious or suspicious result
- 17 tier-1 engines reported no detection
- MalwareBazaar returned no hit
- YARAify returned 0 matching rules
- No brand mismatch or adversarial-input flag was detected
- Newly observed archive with only 1 submitter and 1 recorded submission
- No completed runtime observation
- No complete contacted-host reputation result
- ZIP contents were not individually described in the supplied evidence
Keep endpoint protection enabled and scan every extracted file before opening it. Avoid running unexpected executables, scripts, shortcuts, or macro-enabled documents from the archive.
Coverage & freshness
Complete means the check returned a usable result. It does not mean the file is safe.
Antivirus
Complete0 of 75 engines flagged the file.
Sandbox
PartialRuntime data is present, but no completed sandbox environment is recorded.
Network
Not runNo contacted-host reputation check is recorded.
No timestamp recordedYARA
CompleteRule evaluation completed with no recorded matches.
External intel
Complete3 of 3 independent reference sources completed.
Behavior
Plain-English impact first, then the observed runtime evidence.
Runtime behavior was not available
The report does not treat a missing runtime observation as a clean result.
Detection & Forensics
Consensus, attribution, signatures, code structure, prevalence, and identity.
Evidence integrity
Chain of custody for the facts preserved in this report.
- 0rule hits recorded
- 0 / 75engines flagged
- 1sources in submission history
Why these facts are shown
Each statement identifies whether it was directly recorded or derived from saved scan facts.
- 01
0 of 75 antivirus engines flagged the file.
Verdict inputView chapterProvenanceObservedSourceAntivirus analysisObserved at - 02
No completed runtime observation is available for this file.
ProvenanceDerivedSourceRuntime coverageObserved at - 03
The hash has been submitted 1 time from 1 source.
ProvenanceDerivedSourceSaved report factsObserved at
Detection sources at a glance
The available sources did not agree on a named threat category.
MalwareBazaar, YARAify, and CIRCL hashlookup completed and returned no entries for this hash.
YARA rules
No matchesThe rule pass completed without a saved public match.
0 of 75 engines flagged this file
View all 75 engine results
PE structure
Not applicablePE structure analysis applies to Windows executable formats, not this file type.
How widely this file has been seen
Barely seen in the wild and first surfaced recently. That limits reputation evidence, but rarity alone is not proof of malware.
Fingerprint and provenance
- File name
- Form of Contract.zip
- Format
- ZIP
- Code signing
- Not applicable to this file type
- Size
- 1.8 MB
- Last analyzed
- Sep 22, 2026, 9:51 AM UTC
e3e8cf0f5257104bbf946b1d6e1597f3d061830b1b34e8b854849df10b5ec491Safety & FAQ
Complete recovery guidance and answers for the next decision.
What to do now
This file appears low risk based on the evidence available now.
- Recovery step 01
Open or extract it only when its sender or download source has been independently verified.
- Recovery step 02
A clean result reduces known risk, but it cannot guarantee that every new or targeted threat has been detected.
- Recovery step 03
Keep your antivirus and Windows updates switched on so you stay protected.
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