File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Suspicious

Unsigned 2017-era executable shows process-injection and direct-IP behaviour yet zero engine detections and clean sandbox outcome.

Trust score52Caution
MT AI confidence · 55%
Universe Sandbox VR.exe
561.5 KB
eba6a38d59a674648970b3697713
Antivirus engines
0 of 75 flagged
Code signing
Unsigned
Age
First seen 9y 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.

55%Confidence
Moderate
Reasoning

Zero malicious detections from 71 engines and an empty tier-1 consensus strongly argue against malice. The file is unsigned and old, yet its sandbox trace includes process injection and 20 direct-IP contacts with no domains. These behavioural flags are mitigated by the lack of sandbox malicious verdict and absence of dropped malicious children or known-bad hosts. The combination of clean engine results and suspicious runtime artefacts places the sample in mixed-signals territory.

Key signals · 4

Each signal cites a concrete token from the evidence the arbiter saw — engine name, MITRE technique, signer string, or an exact count.

  1. engines.malicious=0 and engines.tier1Malicious=0 across 71 reporting engines

  2. behaviour.hasMaliciousSandboxVerdict=false and droppedChildren.hasMaliciousChild=false

  3. prevalence.classification=common_old with 1336 uniqueSources since 2017-06-28

  4. triggeredHeuristics[MalwareTips.Synth.ProcessInjection] and [MalwareTips.Synth.DirectIpC2] fired but sandbox produced no malicious verdict

Points in its favour
  • Zero detections from 71 engines including 17 tier-1 engines
  • No malicious sandbox verdict or malicious dropped children
  • Common-old prevalence with 1336 unique submitters since 2017
Points against
  • T1055 process injection observed in sandbox trace
  • Direct-IP network contact without DNS resolution
  • Unsigned executable with no signer history
What to do

Treat as untrusted until additional context (signed vendor binary or verified source) is obtained; run only in a controlled environment.

Runtime behaviour

What this file did when executed

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

MITRE ATT&CK
8

Adversary techniques mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

T1055T1071T1082T1518.001T1564T1564.001T1564.003T1573
Spawned processes
10
$(unnamed)
"C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\program.exe"
$(unnamed)
%SAMPLEPATH%\eba6a38d59a6746489390db8b63cd6fcad6f9a8c7bf5d67e66778970b3697713.exe
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\System32\wuapihost.exe
$(unnamed)
%SAMPLEPATH%\Universe Sandbox VR.exe
$(unnamed)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google3668_707237683\bin\updater.exe
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\System32\UI0Detect.exe
$(unnamed)
C:\Program Files\Google2160_100046789\bin\updater.exe
$(unnamed)
C:\Program Files\Google3452_2104118049\bin\updater.exe
+2 more processes captured.
Network activity
20
IP addresses20
  • 64.233.181.94
  • 20.99.132.105
  • 13.107.39.203
  • a83f:8110:0:0:702:0:0:0
  • 23.216.147.76
  • a83f:8110:cce1:d301:10:0:0:0
  • 23.216.147.64
  • 20.99.184.37
  • 20.99.133.109
  • a83f:8110:7600:6900:6c00:6500:6700:6500
+10 more
Filesystem & mutexes
18
Files written3
  • \Device\ConDrv
  • \Device\ConDrv\\Connect
  • /root/.cache/dconf/user
Files deleted15
  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WERF51E.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WERF5D9.tmp.csv
  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WERF609.tmp.txt
  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WERCAD.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WERCAF.tmp.csv
+10 more
Dropped payload

Files this sample writes at runtime

This file drops 1 child at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache.

1 unseen
  • 81be33fc020ca08436d3651208Never 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.

2 synthesis
MITRE ATT&CK profile
Defense evasion× 1C2× 1
MalwareTips synthesis rules
Our heuristics on VT data + sandbox behaviour
  • 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:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\program.exe"
  • DirectIpC2medium

    Sample contacted 20 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
    64.233.181.94 · 20.99.132.105 · 13.107.39.203
Antivirus engine breakdown

0 detections across 75 engines

0 malicious0 suspicious75 clean
Tier-117 engines
0flag
Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)
Tier-238 engines
0flag
Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates
Low-trust20 engines
0flag
Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)
All 75 engines report this file as clean.
Hash eba6a38d59a6… 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.

Unpacked
Section entropy7 sections
.text
5.87
.rdata
4.18
.data
0.44
.pdata
2.93
.gfids
0.14
.rsrc
2.13
.reloc
0.39
0.0Packed threshold 7.28.0
Prevalence

How often this file shows up in the wild

Widely seen in the wild for a long time. High prior this is legitimate; isolated detections on common-old files are usually false positives.

Common & old
Unique uploaders
1,336
Hundreds of people have uploaded this — common.
Total submissions
1,657
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen by VT
9y ago
Jun 27, 2017
Prevalence quadrant
Rare · New
Targeted malware lives here
Common · New
Just-released software
Rare · Old
Niche or internal tooling
here
Common · Old
Trusted legitimate binaries
File identity

Forensic fingerprint

File biography
First seen (VT)
6/27/2017, 8:02:37 PM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
6/29/2026, 3:08:14 PM
Scanned here
7/4/2026, 5:01:22 PM
File name
Universe Sandbox VR.exe
Size
561.5 KB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
Win32 EXE
SHA-256
eba6a38d59a6746489390db8b63cd6fcad6f9a8c7bf5d67e66778970b3697713
MD5
6ff3841030d7dd9bf38382c8e676d80b
SHA-1
bc8841fd46c936a0e8089e3053f8e116804e3219
PE imphash
784037057c16b079d55c859c5588487d
First seen (VT)
6/27/2017, 8:02:37 PM
Last analysis (VT)
6/29/2026, 3:08:14 PM
First scan (MalwareTips)
7/4/2026, 5:01:22 PM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
7/4/2026, 5:01:22 PM
Community reputation
+2trusted
Behavior tags
detect-debug-environment64bitsassemblyidlepeexe
Community classification

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