File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is tacky-
None of the 67 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this window-border utility archive, and its single sandbox run returned clean with only app-specific config and log files…
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Moderate evidence · No engine flags it, but no publisher signature confirms who made it.
This archive appears to be the tacky-borders utility and is reasonable to use if it came from the official project source. Keep your antivirus enabled while running it.
Good practice2 tips
We found nothing harmful in this file.
Open it only if you trust the person or website you got it from.
Keep your security software and system updates switched on.
No scanner can promise a file is 100% safe.
Antivirus results
0 of 67 flagged
- Flagged 0
- No detection 67
- No result 8
- Code signing Not applicable
- Test run Completed
- First seen 2mo ago
Chapter 02
Why we think so
1 point against it and 4 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
In a sandbox it extracted and ran tacky-borders.exe, which wrote its own config and log files and installed no persistence. The run mapped a process-injection technique without naming any target, which is common for tools that draw over other windows.
The archive has zero detections across 75 engines, including all reporting major antivirus engines. Activity in the test run was limited to extracting and launching tacky-borders.exe, which created an app-named program markers and wrote config and log files. Missing host-reputation coverage and unverdicted dropped files are neutral gaps rather than risk.
What We Detected
None of the 67 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this ZIP archive. Researcher feeds and YARA rule sets returned no matches. The file has been seen by 18 submitters over 77 days.
Threat Behavior
In one sandbox run, the archive extracted tacky-borders.exe and launched it. The program wrote a config.yaml and a log file under its own .config folder and created an app-named program markers. No persistence, registry changes or network contacts were recorded. The sandbox mapped process-injection and defense-impairment techniques, but no injected target process was identified. Window-border tools commonly interact with other windows in ways that trigger these mappings. A complete host-reputation result and verdicts for the four dropped files are not available.
What To Do Now
Download releases only from the project's official source. Keep your antivirus enabled while running the tool.
Where this verdict could be wrong2 caveats
- The sandbox mapped process injection and defense-impairment techniques. No injected process was named, and border-drawing tools commonly hook other windows, which can produce such mappings.
- Only one sandbox run exists, and the four dropped files have no saved verdict.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- None of the 67 antivirus engines that checked it flagged the file
- The single sandbox run returned clean
- Activity in the test run was limited to the app's own config and log files, with no persistence
- No hits in malware sample feeds or YARA rule sets
- The sandbox mapped process-injection and defense-impairment techniques, though no target process was identified
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 not needed or not applicable. See every source
Chapter 03
What it did in our test
It ran in our isolated test environment; no test environment rated what it did as risky.
Test run summary
Capture complete- 7sandbox rule tags
- 5spawned processes
- 0network contacts
- 12filesystem & mutex artifacts
What this file did when executed
This file was run in a sandbox and its runtime behaviour was observed.
Sandbox verdicts
1- VT: CLEANclean
Techniques observed in the sandbox
7MITRE ATT&CK techniques the sandbox mapped. Highlighted ones are rare in normal software; the others are common in legitimate programs too.
- T1036
- T1055· Process injection
- T1057· Lists programs
- T1082· System recon
- T1497· Sandbox evasion
- T1562.001· Disables security
- T1574· Execution hijack
Observed activity
Processes started
5Programs the file ran, with their command lines.
tacky-borders.exe"C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\tacky-borders.exe"unarchiver.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\unarchiver.exe "C:\Windows\SysWow64\unarchiver.exe" "C:\Users\user\Desktop\tacky-borders-v1.6.0.zip"7za.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\7za.exe "C:\Windows\System32\7za.exe" x -pinfected -y -o"C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\py2cyjkz.s0n" "C:\Users\user\Desktop\tacky-borders-v1.6.0.zip"cmd.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe "cmd.exe" /C "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\py2cyjkz.s0n\tacky-borders.exe"tacky-borders.exeC:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\py2cyjkz.s0n\tacky-borders.exe
Files
10Files the file created, changed or deleted.
- Written
C:\Users\<USER>\.config\tacky-borders\config.yaml - Written
C:\Users\user\.config - Written
C:\Users\user\.config\tacky-borders - Written
C:\Users\user\.config\tacky-borders\config.yaml - Written
C:\Users\user\.config\tacky-borders\tacky-borders.log - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\py2cyjkz.s0n
Show all 10 entries for files
- Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\py2cyjkz.s0n\tacky-borders.exe - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\unarchiver.log - Written
\Device\ConDrv\\Connect - Written
stdout
Mutexes
2Named locks a program uses so only one copy runs; malware families often reuse them.
Local\tacky-borders-a6b83a75-bebb-46ac-b29f-ea9aa0855fa2\Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\Local\tacky-borders-a6b83a75-bebb-46ac-b29f-ea9aa0855fa2
Sandbox background — not the file
1The analysis machine's own processes and connections, recorded in every run.
- VM process
conhost.exeC:\Windows\System32\conhost.exe C:\Windows\system32\conhost.exe 0xffffffff -ForceV1
Files this sample writes at runtime
This file drops 4 children at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache. 4 have no saved verdict and were not checked; that is missing coverage, not a finding.
- 9703842b4b834ccfa939…60dd67Not checkedno saved verdict
- 36c47665bc5da4ec97cc…b9bd3dNot checkedno saved verdict
- f02fa8f26daf63b6d227…512a3bNot checkedno saved verdict
- c202bade30e49e5b6985…cfe9abNot checkedno saved verdict
Chapter 04
Technical details
None of the 67 antivirus engines that checked it flag it.
Sources checked
Every check behind this verdict
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 not needed or not applicable. Complete means the check returned a usable result; it does not mean the file is safe.
File fingerprint
- Last analyzed
- Oct 17, 2026, 7:47 PM UTC
- SHA-256
eb75ad4b6b22935f6ceb2e12e36c55bcdf907176953eb47ec7038e4b60a48f23- SHA-1
970b72332be9c7f45ced3f882d4d13dd30b34999- MD5
dba8ca73284d39da636e7997a07dd038
About this file
tacky-borders-v1.6.0.zip is a ZIP file of 1.3 MB.
- Type and size
- ZIP · 1.3 MB
- Signer
- Not applicable
- First seen
- Aug 2, 2026On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 18 distinct sources
First scanned
Antivirus consensus
0 of 67 engines flagged this file
8 of the 75 engines returned no result for this file (file type not supported, or the scan did not finish), so they did not check it.
- Tier-117 engines0flagged
- Tier-237 engines0flagged
- Low-trust13 engines0flagged
View all 75 engine results
- AcronisClean
- AhnLab-V3Clean
- AlibabaClean
- alibabacloudClean
- ALYacClean
- Antiy-AVLClean
- APEXNo result
- ArcabitClean
- AvastClean
- Avast-MobileClean
- AVGClean
- AviraClean
- BitDefenderClean
- BitDefenderFalxNo result
- BkavClean
- CAT-QuickHealClean
- ClamAVClean
- CMCClean
- CrowdStrikeClean
- CTXClean
- CylanceNo result
- CynetClean
- DeepInstinctClean
- DrWebClean
- ElasticClean
- EmsisoftClean
- ESET-NOD32Clean
- F-SecureClean
- FortinetClean
- GDataClean
- GoogleClean
- GridinsoftClean
- huorongClean
- IkarusNo result
- JiangminClean
- K7AntiVirusClean
- K7GWClean
- KasperskyClean
- KingsoftClean
- LionicClean
- MalwarebytesClean
- MaxSecureClean
- McAfeeDClean
- MicrosoftClean
- MicroWorld-eScanClean
- NANO-AntivirusClean
- PaloaltoNo result
- PandaClean
- RisingClean
- SangforClean
- SentinelOneClean
- SkyhighClean
- SophosClean
- SUPERAntiSpywareClean
- SymantecClean
- SymantecMobileInsightNo result
- TACHYONClean
- tehtrisNo result
- TencentClean
- TrapmineNo result
- TrellixENSClean
- TrendMicroClean
- TrendMicro-HouseCallClean
- TrustlookClean
- VaristClean
- VBA32Clean
- VIPREClean
- VirITClean
- ViRobotClean
- WebrootClean
- XcitiumClean
- YandexClean
- ZillyaClean
- ZoneAlarmClean
- ZonerClean
Signatures and behavior heuristics
Low-severity pattern matches — worth noting but not on their own cause for alarm.
VirusTotal's sandbox summary maps this run to MITRE T1055 (Process Injection), but no injected process of the sample's own was recorded (the analysis VM's own WMI adapter, crash handlers and Chrome updater are not counted). VirusTotal maps T1055 on about half of all files no engine flags, so the mapping alone is not evidence of injection.
EvidenceT1055 (sandbox MITRE mapping)
How widely this file has been seen
Moderate prevalence — neither rare nor common. No strong prior applies.
Chapter 05
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