File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is Lua
Only 1 of the 69 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this widely distributed installer, with no higher-confidence detections, corroborated high-risk behavior, or packing…
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Moderate evidence · No engine flags it, but no publisher signature confirms who made it.
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Antivirus results
1 of 69 flagged
- Flagged 1
- No detection 68
- No result 6
- Code signing Unsigned
- Test run Completed
- First seen 1mo ago
Chapter 02
Why we think so
3 points against it and 5 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
Trapmine alone flagged the executable with a generic machine-learning label; no higher-confidence engine agreed, and 74 of the 69 antivirus engines that checked it did not flag it. Its broad distribution and absence of corroborated high-risk behavior make that isolated detection likely to be a false positive, although the file lacks a verified signature.
Only 1 of the 69 antivirus engines that checked it flagged the installer, and that result came from a less reliable engine using a generic machine-learning label. None of the higher-confidence engines detected it, and no malware family was identified. The file has been submitted by 2,875 distinct sources, providing a substantial benign anchor. The antivirus analysis also found no packed or unusually high-entropy code. The missing publisher signature and unavailable static inspection reduce confidence but do not outweigh the broader evidence.
What We Detected
Trapmine was the only engine to flag the executable, assigning a generic machine-learning label. The other 74 of the 69 antivirus engines that checked it did not flag it, including all higher-confidence engines, and no identifiable malware family was reported.
Threat Behavior
The sandbox summary showed ordinary installer and update activity. It contained mappings associated with process injection, file encryption, and protection tampering, but no injected process, encrypted-file artifact, or protection-change artifact was recorded. These unsupported mappings do not establish that those actions occurred. The antivirus analysis found no packing indicators or unusually high-entropy code.
What To Do Now
The isolated detection is most consistent with a false positive, especially given the file's 2,875 distinct submitters. Because the executable is unsigned and its bytes were not available for our static analysis, obtain it from the expected release channel, confirm its hash when one is published, and keep security software enabled while installing it.
Where this verdict could be wrong4 caveats
- The executable is unsigned, so there is no verified publisher identity supporting it.
- Trapmine labels the file with a generic high machine-learning score, although no higher-confidence engine agrees.
- Our static analysis was unavailable because the file bytes were not uploaded, so its internal code was not inspected.
- Prior files with the same import table received mixed decisions, but those matches did not share a verified signer.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- Only 1 of the 69 antivirus engines that checked it flagged the file, and no higher-confidence engine detected it.
- The file was submitted by 2,875 distinct sources across 3,904 submissions.
- No named injection target or other corroborated high-risk behavior was recorded.
- The antivirus analysis found no packing or unusually high-entropy code.
- No inspected contacted host was identified as malicious or suspicious.
- The Windows executable is unsigned, so its publisher cannot be authenticated.
- Trapmine assigned a generic machine-learning detection.
- The file's internal code was not available for our static inspection.
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 partial. 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- 24sandbox rule tags
- 4spawned processes
- 5network contacts
- 19filesystem & mutex artifacts
What this file did when executed
This file was run in a sandbox and its runtime behaviour was observed.
Techniques observed in the sandbox
24MITRE ATT&CK techniques the sandbox mapped. Highlighted ones are rare in normal software; the others are common in legitimate programs too.
- T1027· Obfuscated code
- T1027.002· Obfuscated code
- T1033· Reads user info
- T1036
- T1047
- T1055· Process injection
- T1059· Runs commands
- T1071· Application protocol
- T1074
- T1082· System recon
- T1083· Scans your files
- T1090
- T1105· Network file transfer
- T1112
- T1129· Loads modules
- T1486· File encryption
- T1497· Sandbox evasion
- T1543· Service install
- T1547· Auto-start
- T1562· Disables security
- T1562.001· Disables security
- T1568
- T1573
- T1574· Execution hijack
Observed activity
Processes started
4Programs the file ran, with their command lines.
program.exe"C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\program.exe"LuaTools.exe"C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\LuaTools\current\LuaTools.exe" --veloapp-install 1.3.1LuaTools.exe"C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\LuaTools\current\LuaTools.exe"software.exe"C:\Users\user\Desktop\software.exe"
Network contacts
55 hosts, listed as 3 addresses, 2 links. Links show the host and path only.
- IP address
185.199.108.133 - IP address
172.67.196.53 - IP address
140.82.116.6 - URL
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsnli/steamappidlist/master/data/hardware_appid.json - URL
https://api.github.com/repos/madoiscool/LTSP/releases/latest
Files
16Files the file created, changed or deleted.
- Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\velopack\velopack.log - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\LuaTools\.velopack_dir_test - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\LuaTools\packages\.velopack_lock - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\LuaTools\Update.exe - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\LuaTools\LuaTools.exe - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\LuaTools\packages\LuaTools-1.3.1-full.nupkg
Show all 16 entries for files
- Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\LuaTools\current\sq.version - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\LuaTools\current\CommunityToolkit.Mvvm.dll - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\LuaTools\current\LuaTools.dll - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\LuaTools\current\LuaTools.exe - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\LuaTools\current\LuaTools.runtimeconfig.json - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\LuaTools\current\Markdig.dll - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\LuaTools\current\Markdig.Wpf.dll - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\LuaTools\current\Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Abstractions.dll - Written
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\LuaTools\current\Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Binder.dll - Deleted
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Roaming\LuaToolsGui\cache.json.tmp
Mutexes
3Named locks a program uses so only one copy runs; malware families often reuse them.
cversions.3.mLuaToolsGui.SingleInstanceLocal\SessionImmersiveColorMutex
Sandbox background — not the file
8The analysis machine's own processes and connections, recorded in every run.
- VM process
Explorer.EXEC:\Windows\Explorer.EXE - VM process
services.exeC:\Windows\system32\services.exe - VM process
svchost.exeC:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k UnistackSvcGroup - VM process
svchost.exeC:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k NetworkService -p - VM process
svchost.exeC:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k LocalSystemNetworkRestricted -p -s WdiSystemHost - VM process
svchost.exeC:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k LocalSystemNetworkRestricted -p -s StorSvc
Show all 8 entries for sandbox background — not the file
- VM process
lsass.exeC:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe - VM host
162.159.36.2
Files this sample writes at runtime
This file drops 9 children at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache. 9 have no saved verdict and were not checked; that is missing coverage, not a finding.
- 28e66bf0d21fce9b1b78…be98a8Not checkedno saved verdict
- 0732452a71e6c43c2ee8…942e06Not checkedno saved verdict
- f504e30e37a74936ac14…5cb9cfNot checkedno saved verdict
- da99caf3f45759da582e…94e2daNot checkedno saved verdict
- 4cbf03bb0c332dafdaa3…5b6c6eNot checkedno saved verdict
- b716430004afd2c1d2b8…3a468cNot checkedno saved verdict
- f7f7da311131ba2c387d…99a54aNot checkedno saved verdict
- 4ad4a3b2bed7f5f293f8…4f47aaNot checkedno saved verdict
- 32ad11116a15f7f52fc1…0bc539Not checkedno saved verdict
Chapter 04
Technical details
1 of the 69 antivirus engines that checked it flags it; no publisher signature.
Sources checked
Every check behind this verdict
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 partial. Complete means the check returned a usable result; it does not mean the file is safe.
Engines that flagged it 1
The saved verdict treats these detections as likely false positives.
- Trapminemalicious.high.ml.score
File fingerprint
- Last analyzed
- Sep 22, 2026, 8:34 AM UTC
- SHA-256
f6bd024595477dfce071bdb5ba244f16f04beaddc610628be675891cf8066732- SHA-1
14764178320d68ce077d9f3eff326a5bd9f4c24b- MD5
860ba574cc15cb29375ca010a1b27925
About this file
LuaTools-win-Setup.exe is a Win32 EXE file of 11.9 MB.
- Type and size
- Win32 EXE · 11.9 MB
- Signer
- UnsignedNo code signature.
- First seen
- Sep 9, 2026On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 2,875 distinct sources
- Packer
- None detected
- Entropy
- 8.00 of 8
First scanned Updated
Verdict history
- Suspicious
- Safeafter a re-check of the saved evidence
Ratings change when antivirus engines, our checks or MalwareTips staff learn more about a file.
Antivirus consensus
1 of 69 engines flagged this file
6 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-118 engines0flagged
- Tier-234 engines0flagged
- Low-trust17 engines1flagged
View all 75 engine results
- TrapmineMalicious: malicious.high.ml.score
- AcronisClean
- AhnLab-V3Clean
- AlibabaClean
- alibabacloudClean
- ALYacClean
- Antiy-AVLClean
- APEXClean
- ArcabitClean
- AvastClean
- Avast-MobileNo result
- AVGClean
- AviraClean
- BitDefenderClean
- BitDefenderFalxNo result
- BkavClean
- CAT-QuickHealClean
- ClamAVClean
- CMCClean
- CrowdStrikeClean
- CTXClean
- CylanceClean
- CynetClean
- DeepInstinctClean
- DrWebClean
- ElasticClean
- EmsisoftClean
- ESET-NOD32Clean
- F-SecureClean
- FortinetClean
- GDataClean
- GoogleClean
- GridinsoftClean
- huorongClean
- IkarusClean
- JiangminClean
- K7AntiVirusClean
- K7GWClean
- KasperskyClean
- KingsoftClean
- LionicClean
- MalwarebytesClean
- MaxSecureClean
- McAfeeDClean
- MicrosoftClean
- MicroWorld-eScanClean
- NANO-AntivirusClean
- PaloaltoClean
- PandaClean
- RisingClean
- SangforClean
- SentinelOneClean
- SkyhighNo result
- SophosClean
- SUPERAntiSpywareClean
- SymantecClean
- SymantecMobileInsightNo result
- TACHYONClean
- tehtrisClean
- TencentClean
- TrellixENSClean
- TrendMicroClean
- TrendMicro-HouseCallClean
- TrustlookNo result
- VaristClean
- VBA32Clean
- VIPREClean
- VirITClean
- ViRobotClean
- WebrootClean
- XcitiumClean
- YandexClean
- ZillyaNo result
- 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)
Section entropy & packers
No high-entropy executable section or known packer signature was detected. Data and resource sections can still have high entropy without indicating packed code.
How widely this file has been seen
Widely uploaded, but first seen within the last six months. No strong prior applies.
Chapter 05
Questions & answers
Short answers to the 6 questions people ask most about this file.
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What is LuaTools-win-Setup.exe?
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Is it safe to install LuaTools-win-Setup.exe?
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