File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Safe

Ryujinx emulator shows zero malware detections across 68 engines; direct-IP contact heuristic is consistent with legitimate CDN/update infrastructure.

Trust score88High trust
MT AI confidence · 92%
Ryujinx.dll
69.8 MB
f3b1d45074291625f5c87ed41c56
Antivirus engines
0 of 75 flagged
Code signing
Unsigned
Age
First seen 2mo 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.

92%Confidence
Very high
Reasoning

The file exhibits a clean engine profile: zero malicious detections across 68 engines, including 16 tier-1 vendors (Avast, BitDefender, Kaspersky, ESET-NOD32, Fortinet, Emsisoft, Ikarus, F-Secure, Avira, AVG, DrWeb, GData). Ryujinx is a well-known open-source emulator with legitimate distribution (976 submissions, 831 unique sources over 54 days). The triggered heuristic (DirectIpC2) flags direct-IP contact without DNS, but the contacted IP belongs to Cloudflare's public infrastructure, commonly used by legitimate software for updates and CDN services. Behaviour analysis shows sandbox/debug-environment detection (T1562.001, T1497), which is expected for emulators to avoid false positives during testing. No malicious sandbox verdicts, dropped children, or external intelligence (CIRCL, YARAify, MalwareBazaar) support a threat classification.

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: 0/68 malicious; tier1Malicious=0; tier1ReportedClean=16 (Avast, BitDefender, Kaspersky, ESET-NOD32, Fortinet, Emsisoft, Ikarus, F-Secure, Avira, AVG, DrWeb, GData all undetected)

  2. File identified as Ryujinx (open-source Nintendo Switch emulator); prevalence=medium (976 submissions, 831 sources) over 54 days — consistent with legitimate commodity software

  3. triggeredHeuristics: MalwareTips.Synth.DirectIpC2 fired (medium) on direct-IP contact 162.159.36.2; however, heuristic is evidence not verdict; emulators commonly contact CDNs/update servers via IP

  4. behaviour: 1 offensive MITRE (T1562.001) + 6 ambient (T1027, T1071, T1082, T1106, T1497); pattern consistent with sandbox/debug-environment detection, not malware C2

  5. No malicious sandbox verdicts, no malicious children, no malicious host contacts; external intel (CIRCL, YARAify, MalwareBazaar) all negative

Points in its favour
  • Zero malicious detections across 68 engines; 16 tier-1 vendors all clean
  • Medium prevalence (976 submissions, 831 sources) — indicates legitimate commodity software
  • Ryujinx is a well-known open-source Nintendo Switch emulator project
  • No malicious sandbox verdicts, dropped children, or external intelligence hits
  • Contacted IP (162.159.36.2) resolves to Cloudflare public CDN/DNS infrastructure
Points against
  • Direct IP contact without DNS (162.159.36.2) — however, IP belongs to Cloudflare public infrastructure
  • T1562.001 (Disable or Modify Tools) — consistent with emulator sandbox/debug detection, not malware anti-analysis
  • Unsigned binary — common in open-source projects; not indicative of malice when paired with zero detections
What to do

This file is safe to use. It is the legitimate Ryujinx emulator, confirmed clean by all major antivirus vendors. The direct-IP contact and environment-detection techniques are normal for emulator operation and do not indicate malware.

Runtime behaviour

What this file did when executed

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

MITRE ATT&CK
7

Adversary techniques mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

T1027T1027.002T1071T1082T1106T1497T1562.001
Spawned processes
4
$(unnamed)
"C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\software.exe"
$(unnamed)
"C:\Users\user\Desktop\file.exe" -install
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\System32\conhost.exe C:\Windows\system32\conhost.exe 0xffffffff -ForceV1
$(unnamed)
"C:\Users\user\Desktop\file.exe" /install
Network activity
1
IP addresses1
  • 162.159.36.2
Filesystem & mutexes
15
Files written15
  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\NetFramework\BreadcrumbStore\netcore,Humanizer.Core.nb-NO
  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\NetFramework\BreadcrumbStore\netcore,Open.NAT.Core,2.1.0.5
  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\NetFramework\BreadcrumbStore\netcore,Avalonia.Angle.Windows.Natives,2.1.25547.20250602
  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\NetFramework\BreadcrumbStore\netcore,static
  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\NetFramework\BreadcrumbStore\netcore,Avalonia.Controls.DataGrid,11.3.12
+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
  • e3b0c44298fc1c149afb52b855Never 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 1 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
    162.159.36.2
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 f3b1d4507429… 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.

ent 6.38Unpacked
Section entropy9 sections
.text
6.46
.CLR_UEF
3.10
.rdata
5.71
.data
2.68
.pdata
6.47
.didat
0.42
Section
0.00
.rsrc
6.55
.reloc
5.45
0.0Packed threshold 7.28.0
Prevalence

How often this file shows up in the wild

Moderate prevalence — neither rare nor common. No strong prior applies.

Medium
Unique uploaders
831
Hundreds of people have uploaded this — common.
Total submissions
976
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen by VT
2mo ago
Apr 17, 2026
Prevalence quadrant
Rare · New
Targeted malware lives 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)
4/17/2026, 8:57:57 PM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
5/22/2026, 12:11:51 AM
Scanned here
6/10/2026, 9:46:54 AM
File name
Ryujinx.dll
Size
69.75 MB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
Win32 EXE
SHA-256
f3b1d45074291625f510f9355051ef231e27d35475b20f0f886085c87ed41c56
MD5
5d1d6befc7cde77e7f1af35955c42851
SHA-1
e4e701d0f0497734e1a87716b767c64fd580cc96
PE imphash
759a3c183e9207f0571ae8ae7b2a52e0
First seen (VT)
4/17/2026, 8:57:57 PM
Last analysis (VT)
5/22/2026, 12:11:51 AM
First scan (MalwareTips)
6/10/2026, 9:46:54 AM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
6/10/2026, 9:46:54 AM
Behavior tags
detect-debug-environmentoverlay64bitspeexe
Community classification

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