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Verdict Suspicious

Analyzed , 5 months ago

Is citron.exe safe? Treat it as suspicious.

No strong malicious consensus exists, but the file's novelty, lack of signing, and a control server-like rule-based raise concerns.

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Why Suspicious? 2 antivirus engines flag it, but no major engine agrees; nothing else confirms it.

Limited evidence · One sign points to a problem; nothing else confirms it.

Don't run it until you know where it came from

If it came from a link, an attachment or a stranger, delete it.

What to do now4 steps

Some signs point to a problem, but nothing confirms it is harmful. Treat it with caution.

What to do

  1. Don't run it unless you're sure where it came from.

  2. Check where you got it: an unexpected attachment, a link someone sent you or a re-upload is a red flag.

  3. If you can't confirm where it came from, delete it. If you need the program, download it again from the publisher's own website.

If you already ran it

  1. Stop using it, run a full scan with your antivirus and watch for unexpected behavior or security alerts.

Not sure what to do?

Ask the MalwareTips community before you run it. If you already ran it, follow the cleanup guide.

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citron.exe: Suspicious — MalwareTips file scan

The link always shows the latest result for this exact file (its SHA-256 fingerprint).

Reads the latest antivirus results for this file's hash. Nothing is uploaded.

Antivirus results

2 of 69 flagged

  • Flagged 2
  • No detection 67
  • No result 6
Filecitron.exe64.9 MBSHA-256 fcb3b8e9782e…c38717
  • Code signing Unsigned
  • Test run Completed
  • First seen 5mo ago
2 of the 69 antivirus engines that checked it flag it, including Gridinsoft and Trapmine.

Chapter 02

Why we think so

5 points against it and 4 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.

MT AI Engine · Verdict analysis

The reasoning behind this verdict

Analyst conclusion

Treat with caution until more data emerges.

Where this verdict could be wrong3 caveats
  • IP 162.159.36.2 is in Cloudflare range (162.159.0.0/16), often used by legitimate apps for CDN without DNS lookups — rule-based may overflag benign traffic.
  • Detections are purely heuristic/ML (no named family), and no major consensus or offensive behaviour could indicate false positive.
  • No similarHashes RAG hits, but low submission count (2) limits prevalence insight.

These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.

6 sources checked · 5 complete · 1 not needed or not applicable. 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
  • 1sandbox rule tag
  • 1spawned processes
  • 0network contacts
  • 0filesystem & mutex artifacts

What the test run showed

What the file did on a test computer

Sandbox labels we could not confirm (common in safe files too)

  • Not confirmed: A sandbox rule tagged this run as recording keystrokes; no keylogging was confirmed.

This file was run on a test computer (a sandbox), not on yours. Labels we could not confirm are listed so you can see them, but they are not treated as evidence against the file.

Recorded behavior

What happened in the test

Grouped by step. The order is not a timeline.

Seen in the test runWorked out from other results

  1. Input file

    The submitted object

    1
    1. Evidence 1 of 2: FileSeen in the test run

      citron.exe

      fcb3b8e9782eef8a992e989becfdebf879de7c0c1996e8e2c2d9b1f105c38717

      Uploaded file

  2. Processes

    What ran

    1
    1. Evidence 2 of 2: ProcessSeen in the test run

      executable.exe

      "C:\Users\user\Desktop\executable.exe"

      Test run

2 facts from the test run. See the full activity list.

Chapter 04

Technical details

2 of the 69 antivirus engines that checked it flag 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.

SourceStatusResultChecked
Antivirus enginesVirusTotal · 75 enginesCompleteRisk signal: 2 of 69 engines flagged it · 6 gave no result Details for antivirus engines
Sandbox runVirusTotal sandboxesCompleteRuntime behaviour was recorded Details for sandbox run
Contacted hostsMalwareTips URL scannerNot neededThe sandbox recorded no contacted hosts to checkNo date recorded
Signature rulesYARAify community rules + MalwareTips rulesCompleteNo rule matched
Malware sample databaseabuse.ch MalwareBazaarCompleteNot listed
Known-software referenceCIRCL hashlookupCompleteNo match

Engines that flagged it 2

  • GridinsoftTrojan.Heur!.0205202F
  • Trapminesuspicious.low.ml.score

File fingerprint

Last analyzed
May 15, 2026, 7:28 PM UTC
SHA-256
fcb3b8e9782eef8a992e989becfdebf879de7c0c1996e8e2c2d9b1f105c38717
SHA-1
0799f37a02589d070e752ec9444748a660a9bcd1
MD5
f32908fe21e824071c126f03bc079bc9

About this file

citron.exe is a Win32 EXE file of 64.9 MB.

Type and size
Win32 EXE · 64.9 MB
Signer
UnsignedNo code signature.
First seen
May 15, 2026On VirusTotal.
Submitted by
2 distinct sourcesRarely seen: few people have submitted this exact file.
Packer
None detected
Entropy
5.74 of 8

First scanned

Chapter 05

Questions & answers

Short answers to the 6 questions people ask most about this file.

Is citron.exe safe, or is it malware?
citron.exe is rated Suspicious: some signs point to a problem, but nothing confirms it is harmful. 2 of the 69 antivirus engines that checked it flag it. Don't run it unless you're sure where it came from. If you need the program, download it again from the publisher's own website.
What is citron.exe?
citron.exe is a Windows program, about 64.9 MB. It carries no version information saying what it is or who made it. VirusTotal first saw it on May 15, 2026.
How many antivirus engines detected citron.exe?
2 of the 69 antivirus engines that checked it flag citron.exe, including Gridinsoft and Trapmine. We weigh which engines flagged it and what else the scan found, not just the count.
I already downloaded and ran citron.exe — what should I do?
No infection is confirmed: the rating is a caution, not a malware finding. 1) Check where it came from. If you can't confirm the source, delete it. 2) Run a full scan with your security software. 3) If the scan finds something, follow its removal steps and change passwords you typed on the device since then.
What is the SHA-256 hash of citron.exe?
The SHA-256 fingerprint of citron.exe is fcb3b8e9782eef8a992e989becfdebf879de7c0c1996e8e2c2d9b1f105c38717, and its MD5 is f32908fe21e824071c126f03bc079bc9. Two files with the same SHA-256 are identical, so use it to check you have exactly this file, not just one with the same name.
How up to date is this analysis of citron.exe?
This report reflects the scan on May 15, 2026. A file's fingerprint never changes, but antivirus engines keep learning, so a rating can change later. To get a newer result, scan the file again: we refresh the antivirus results when the saved ones are out of date.
Chapter 06

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