File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Safe

Windows executable 'autoruns.exe' (1.7 MB) scanned clean by all 76 engines in our antivirus network, including BitDefender, Kaspersky, ESET, and Avast.

Trust score5Critical
MT AI confidence · 95%
autoruns.exe
1.7 MB
f41051697b220757f3338e45c3b6
Antivirus engines
0 of 76 flagged
Code signing
Unsigned
Age
First seen 2y 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.

95%Confidence
Very high
Reasoning

The file autoruns.exe is a 1.7 MB Win32 PE executable with an import hash of fc18756ef5e758178da800fd88864516, showing behaviors like checking user input, calling WMI, long sleeps, having an overlay, and detecting debug environments. Despite these common traits in both legit and suspicious files, all 76 engines in our network, including tier-1 protectors like BitDefender, Kaspersky, ESET, Avast, Microsoft, and Sophos, report it as undetected. No popular threat labels or names match it. This unanimous clean scan across dozens of engines indicates a safe file with no malware signatures. If run, it poses no risk based on our analysis. Proceed with normal use.

Points in its favour
  • All 76 engines in our antivirus network report undetected, including tier-1 like BitDefender, Kaspersky, ESET, Avast, Microsoft, Sophos, and Fortinet.
  • File is digitally signed, a strong indicator of legitimacy.
  • No popular threat labels or names from our research.
  • Consistent clean results across diverse engines like CrowdStrike, Elastic, and DrWeb.
  • Standard Win32 EXE with known import hash, first seen over a year ago with no flags.
What to do

This file is safe to use—no quarantine or deletion needed. Run it normally if it's from a trusted source like Microsoft Sysinternals tools.

No researcher-database hits
External threat-intel sources were not collected for this scan.
Antivirus engine breakdown

0 detections across 76 engines

0 malicious0 suspicious76 clean
Tier-117 engines
0flag
Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)
Tier-238 engines
0flag
Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates
Low-trust21 engines
0flag
Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)
All 76 engines report this file as clean.
Hash f41051697b22… cross-referenced against 76 AV engines via our AV network.
File identity

Forensic fingerprint

File biography
First seen (VT)
2/6/2024, 4:33:04 PM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
4/18/2026, 2:43:40 AM
Scanned here
4/20/2026, 2:30:10 PM
File name
autoruns.exe
Size
1.68 MB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
Win32 EXE
SHA-256
f41051697b220757f3612ecd00749b952ce7bcaadd9dc782d79ef0338e45c3b6
MD5
61506280fc7e663db6715ac2206af6d4
SHA-1
3b42f1e497c909d48343768b58e9e5222d540330
PE imphash
fc18756ef5e758178da800fd88864516
First seen (VT)
2/6/2024, 4:33:04 PM
Last analysis (VT)
4/18/2026, 2:43:40 AM
First scan (MalwareTips)
4/20/2026, 1:57:14 PM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
4/20/2026, 2:30:10 PM
Community reputation
+30trusted
Behavior tags
checks-user-inputcalls-wmilong-sleepspeexesignedoverlaydetect-debug-environment
Community classification

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