Safe
A 13-year-old ZIP archive with zero engine detections and massive historical distribution.
e5b98f79e84d434b44…8d0b354b21The reasoning behind this verdict
This section explains the evidence supporting the verdict and keeps conflicting or missing signals visible.
The complete absence of detections across 74 engines, including 17 tier-1 engines, combined with the file's long history and high submission volume, indicates a widely distributed, benign archive. Behavioural analysis found no offensive techniques or malicious network activity. External intelligence sources also returned no matches. Community researcher comments consistently label the file safe. The 'via-tor' tag is a neutral distribution artifact and does not override the overwhelming clean signals.
74 of 74 engines report the file clean. The archive has been submitted over 31 000 times since 2013 with no malicious findings and shows no suspicious behaviour or external-intel hits.
What We Detected
Zero malicious detections from 74 engines; file is a 13 MB ZIP archive first seen in 2013.
Threat Behavior
No sandbox executions, no MITRE offensive techniques, no contacted malicious hosts or dropped children.
What To Do Now
File can be treated as safe for emulation or archival use; standard caution when extracting archives from any source is still advised.
The strongest scan facts behind the verdict, preserved with their exact names and counts.
0 of 74 antivirus engines flagged the file.
The hash has been submitted 31,586 times from 3,732 sources.
- Zero engine detections across all tiers
- Extremely high submission volume over 13 years
- No external intelligence hits
- Multiple researcher comments confirming safety
The file shows no malicious indicators and can be considered safe for its intended use.
What to do now
This file looks safe based on everything we checked.
This file is safe to use.
Good habit: only download files from the official website or an app store.
Keep your antivirus and Windows updates switched on so you stay protected.
0 detections across 74 engines
How widely this file has been seen
Widely seen in the wild for a long time. High prior this is legitimate; isolated detections on common-old files are usually false positives.
Forensic fingerprint
- File name
- ps2_bios.zip
- Size
- 12.76 MB
- MIME type
- (unknown)
- Detected type
- ZIP
- SHA-256
- e5b98f79e84d434b44fe4dab6b0e7823772d32744249a8fb9fb2288d0b354b21
- MD5
- 00d88b02bc3aada70498ec421092c04b
- SHA-1
- 2d83d33033e31955497e3e962493b9133e7a2c39
- First seen (VT)
- Oct 4, 2013, 5:39 AM UTC
- Last analysis (VT)
- Jul 21, 2026, 1:52 AM UTC
- First scan (MalwareTips)
- Jul 23, 2026, 3:03 AM UTC
- Last scan (MalwareTips)
- Jul 23, 2026, 3:03 AM UTC
- Community reputation
- +56trusted
Safety FAQ
Common questions about ps2_bios.zip, answered from the scan data above.
- ps2_bios.zip appears safe. 74 of 74 antivirus engines report it clean. As a habit, only open or extract files you downloaded from the official source, since attackers sometimes distribute trojanised copies of legitimate software under the same name.
- ps2_bios.zip is a compressed archive, about 12.8 MB. Our analysis found no threat indicators for it. A file's name can be reused by different files, so we identify it by its cryptographic hash (below).
- None — all 74 antivirus engines we queried report ps2_bios.zip as clean. That's reassuring, though brand-new malware can briefly evade detection before vendors add signatures, so we also weigh the file's behaviour and reputation.
- The SHA-256 hash of ps2_bios.zip is e5b98f79e84d434b44fe4dab6b0e7823772d32744249a8fb9fb2288d0b354b21, and its MD5 is 00d88b02bc3aada70498ec421092c04b. This hash is the file's unique fingerprint — two files with the same SHA-256 are identical. Use it to confirm you're looking at exactly this file (not just one with the same name) when comparing against antivirus databases or a download's published checksum.
- Based on this scan, yes — ps2_bios.zip shows no threat indicators. The important caveat is source: make sure you downloaded it from the official website or a trusted store, because attackers sometimes distribute malware-laced copies under a legitimate file's name. If your own antivirus flags it while we report it clean, that is most often a false positive, but verify the source before overriding your antivirus.
- This report reflects the scan run on July 23, 2026. Because a file's hash never changes, the identity of ps2_bios.zip is fixed — but antivirus coverage improves over time, so a file that looks clean today can pick up detections later (and vice-versa). If you need the latest picture, MalwareTips staff can re-run the analysis from scratch.
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