File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is Setup.
Only Sangfor flagged this long-known installer with a generic label; 18 major antivirus engines found no issue, and no named malware family was corroborated.
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Moderate evidence · No engine flags it, but no publisher signature confirms who made it.
Good practice2 tips
We found nothing harmful in this file.
Install it only if it came from the developer's own website or an official app store.
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Antivirus results
1 of 73 flagged
- Flagged 1
- No detection 72
- No result 5
- Code signing Unsigned
- Test run Completed
- First seen 16y ago
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Why we think so
4 points against it and 5 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
One of the 73 antivirus engines that checked it flagged the file with a generic suspicious label, while all 18 major antivirus engines were silent and no malware family consensus emerged. The detection is likely a false positive, though the unsigned status, extremely limited prevalence, and absence of completed sandbox observation warrant obtaining it only from a trusted source.
Sangfor is the sole detector among 78 engines and supplied only a generic suspicious label. None of the 18 major antivirus engines flagged the sample, and there is no named-family consensus or corroboration from malware-specific research rules. Static PE evidence does not show packing or unusually high-entropy code. The file is unsigned and was submitted only once, which prevents strong publisher or prevalence validation. No sandbox run completed, and no comprehensive contacted-host reputation result is available, so runtime conduct remains unverified. Related import-table fingerprint decisions add limited concern, but all lack a matching signer and may reflect a shared installer framework rather than shared payload code.
What We Detected
One of the 73 antivirus engines that checked it, Sangfor, reported the generic label “Suspicious.Win32.Save.ins.” None of the 18 major antivirus engines flagged the file, and no named malware family was identified by multiple engines. Malware-specific research rules and external family intelligence also produced no corroborating hit.
Threat Behavior
No completed sandbox run is available, so the file's behavior in the test run cannot be characterized. Static PE inspection found no identified packer, no likely-packing condition, and no high-entropy code indicator. A comprehensive reputation check of contacted hosts was not completed or saved.
What To Do Now
The isolated generic detection most likely represents a false positive. However, because the executable is unsigned and has almost no recorded distribution history, download it only from the expected publisher or original trusted media, verify its hash where possible, and keep security software enabled while opening it.
Where this verdict could be wrong3 caveats
- The executable is unsigned and has only one recorded submission, so its publisher and distribution channel cannot be independently established.
- Four import-table fingerprint-related files previously received three suspicious decisions and one Egairtigado decision, although those unsigned-publisher matches may merely share an installer framework.
- No completed sandbox run or comprehensive contacted-host reputation check is available, leaving behavior in the test run unverified.
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 one of the 73 antivirus engines that checked it raised an alert, and it used a generic suspicious label.
- All 18 major antivirus engines returned no detection.
- No engine consensus identified a malware family.
- The antivirus analysis found no recognized packer or high-entropy code.
- No malware-specific research rule or external malware-family record matched the hash.
- The Windows executable has no digital signature to identify its publisher.
- It has only one recorded submitter and one submission despite being known since 2010.
- No completed sandbox observation is available to confirm what it does when launched.
- Similar installer-shaped files include three previously treated cautiously and one associated with a trojan, though the match may be a shared-framework collision.
6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 not needed or not applicable. See every source
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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- 0spawned processes
- 0network contacts
- 8filesystem & mutex artifacts
Includes every process, file, registry and network entry.
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Technical details
1 of the 73 antivirus engines that checked it flags it; no publisher signature.
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.
Engines that flagged it 1
The saved verdict treats these detections as likely false positives.
- SangforSuspicious.Win32.Save.ins
File fingerprint
- Last analyzed
- Oct 14, 2026, 1:00 AM UTC
- SHA-256
fc5f69c65bdd2b1c9e3e2f5dbeaf534b8112f0e60b189bb76ad70d8c15ebfe9e- SHA-1
d10a2bf612621a32a523ffbc0a03b8f6685cbf8d- MD5
2303905770970fce7be1f9f41b108869
About this file
Setup.EXE is a Win32 EXE file of 188.0 kB.
- Type and size
- Win32 EXE · 188.0 kB
- Signer
- UnsignedNo code signature.
- First seen
- Jul 19, 2010On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 1 sourceRarely seen: few people have submitted this exact file.
- Packer
- None detected
- Entropy
- 5.26 of 8
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Includes every engine result (78), PE section entropy and packers and how widely the file has been seen.
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