File scan report
Verdict Safe
Is EA DLC Unlocker v2.
None of the 67 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this DLC unlocker archive, and sandbox activity showed only extraction and a setup script loading its game-client DLL…
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Moderate evidence · No engine flags it, but no publisher signature confirms who made it.
No malicious evidence was found, but this unofficial unlocker modifies game clients and may risk your EA account; keep your antivirus enabled if you use it.
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Antivirus results
0 of 67 flagged
- Flagged 0
- No detection 67
- No result 8
- Code signing Not applicable
- Test run Completed
- First seen 7mo ago
Chapter 02
Why we think so
1 point against it and 4 in its favour, checked against the scan evidence.
The reasoning behind this verdict
The sandbox runs show it extracting files and running a setup script that installs a replacement DLL for EA game clients, which is how such unlockers work. It has been seen by about 90 submitters over seven months without detections.
No engine among the 75 flagged the archive, and every major antivirus engine that analysed it reported it clean. The sandbox runs recorded no high-risk techniques. Observed activity is extraction, a setup batch file and rundll32 loading the bundled version.dll files for the EA app and Origin folders, matching a DLC unlocker design. The file has circulated among about 90 submitters for 227 days without detections. No complete host-reputation result is available, but the only network contact was the analysis machine's own background traffic.
What We Detected
None of the 67 antivirus engines that checked it flagged this ZIP archive. All major antivirus engines that analysed it, including Kaspersky, ESET and BitDefender, reported it clean. It has been submitted by about 90 sources over roughly seven months.
Threat Behavior
In the sandbox runs the archive was extracted and a setup batch script ran. Replacement version.dll files were loaded for the EA app and Origin client folders, alongside per-game configuration files. No high-risk techniques, injection targets, persistence or sample network traffic were recorded.
What To Do Now
No malware evidence was found. Be aware that this unofficial unlocker alters EA game clients, which breaches the publisher's terms and may risk your account. Only use copies obtained from the same source, and keep your antivirus enabled.
Where this verdict could be wrong1 caveat
- The tool modifies EA game client behaviour through a replacement DLL. This breaches the game publisher's terms and could trigger account action, even though no malicious code was detected.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- None of the 67 antivirus engines that checked it flagged the archive
- All major antivirus engines reported it clean
- No high-risk techniques or injection targets in the sandbox runs
- Seen by about 90 submitters over seven months without detections
- Unofficial tool that modifies EA game client files, which may breach the publisher's terms of service
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- 10sandbox rule tags
- 10spawned processes
- 0network contacts
- 15filesystem & 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
10MITRE ATT&CK techniques the sandbox mapped. Highlighted ones are rare in normal software; the others are common in legitimate programs too.
- T1055· Process injection
- T1064
- T1082· System recon
- T1083· Scans your files
- T1202
- T1497· Sandbox evasion
- T1518.001· Checks your AV
- T1543.002· Service install
- T1562.001· Disables security
- T1564.001· Hides artifacts
Observed activity
Processes started
10Programs the file ran, with their command lines.
rundll32.exe"C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exe" "C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\EA DLC Unlocker v2/ea_app/version.dll",#1rundll32.exe"C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exe" "C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\EA DLC Unlocker v2/origin/version.dll",#1cmd.exe"C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe" /c "cd ^"C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp^" && start /wait ^"^" ^"C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\EA DLC Unlocker v2/setup.bat^"cmd.exeC:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /K "C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\EA DLC Unlocker v2/setup.batunarchiver.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\unarchiver.exe "C:\Windows\SysWow64\unarchiver.exe" "C:\Users\user\Desktop\EA DLC Unlocker v2.zip"7za.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\7za.exe "C:\Windows\System32\7za.exe" x -pinfected -y -o"C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\lta4s0bh.lln" "C:\Users\user\Desktop\EA DLC Unlocker v2.zip"
Show all 10 entries for processes started
exo-open/usr/bin/exo-open exo-open "/tmp/EA DLC Unlocker v2.zip"exo-open/usr/bin/exo-open -engrampa/usr/bin/engrampa engrampa "/tmp/EA DLC Unlocker v2.zip"7z/usr/lib/p7zip/7z l -slt -bd -y -- "/tmp/EA DLC Unlocker v2.zip"
Files
15Files the file created, changed or deleted.
- Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\lta4s0bh.lln - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\lta4s0bh.lln\EA DLC Unlocker v2 - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\lta4s0bh.lln\EA DLC Unlocker v2\config.ini - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\lta4s0bh.lln\EA DLC Unlocker v2\ea_app - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\lta4s0bh.lln\EA DLC Unlocker v2\ea_app\version.dll - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\lta4s0bh.lln\EA DLC Unlocker v2\g_Cities Skylines.ini
Show all 15 entries for files
- Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\lta4s0bh.lln\EA DLC Unlocker v2\g_Dead Space 2023.ini - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\lta4s0bh.lln\EA DLC Unlocker v2\g_Dead Space 3.ini - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\lta4s0bh.lln\EA DLC Unlocker v2\g_F1 22.ini - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\lta4s0bh.lln\EA DLC Unlocker v2\g_F1 23.ini - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\lta4s0bh.lln\EA DLC Unlocker v2\g_Frostpunk.ini - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\lta4s0bh.lln\EA DLC Unlocker v2\g_GRID Legends.ini - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\lta4s0bh.lln\EA DLC Unlocker v2\g_It Takes Two.ini - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\lta4s0bh.lln\EA DLC Unlocker v2\g_Mutant Year Zero.ini - Written
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\lta4s0bh.lln\EA DLC Unlocker v2\g_My Time at Portia.ini
Sandbox background — not the file
6The analysis machine's own processes and connections, recorded in every run.
- VM process
conhost.exeC:\Windows\System32\conhost.exe C:\Windows\system32\conhost.exe 0xffffffff -ForceV1 - VM process
dbus-launch/usr/bin/dbus-launch dbus-launch --autolaunch=a39eb3ed78b7401fb6809ed0c562a5b1 --binary-syntax --close-stderr - VM process
sh/bin/sh sh -c /usr/lib/rsyslog/rsyslog-rotate logrotate_script /var/log/syslog - VM process
rsyslog-rotate/usr/lib/rsyslog/rsyslog-rotate - VM process
systemctl/usr/bin/systemctl systemctl kill -s HUP rsyslog.service - VM host
162.159.36.2
Files this sample writes at runtime
This file drops 10 children at runtime. None are currently flagged malicious in our cache. 10 have no saved verdict and were not checked; that is missing coverage, not a finding.
- e305b8a3399785fb4393…cdd990Not checkedno saved verdict
- cf784476719a93e3fb84…0d2b83Not checkedno saved verdict
- 87df6f4f1c246e0e5d43…215052Not checkedno saved verdict
- 070ac609263921f4c910…2c0b89Not checkedno saved verdict
- cfbe14fc02f08a2b941d…8945faNot checkedno saved verdict
- 06c8f383e8383c4b1736…e84c02Not checkedno saved verdict
- 4d3aec945d9407139c77…34ea32Not checkedno saved verdict
- b6b4797b1ce41e14b7c3…f1b1f6Not checkedno saved verdict
- f66f3e8899c43a8433af…3e60d6Not checkedno saved verdict
- a03bcf45efe6a821ad11…ee5809Not checkedno saved verdict
Chapter 04
Technical details
None of the 67 antivirus engines that checked it flag it.
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.
File fingerprint
- Last analyzed
- Sep 8, 2026, 7:45 PM UTC
- SHA-256
fcf232db3e4516029c174930d520af550dc95ddb3e5e0533be3b9df23b00a220- SHA-1
d9176dd219c656c714ed32dc4132548236514852- MD5
fdd1787d079571b0b3b0b8146a555de4
About this file
EA DLC Unlocker v2.zip is a ZIP file of 253.3 kB.
- Type and size
- ZIP · 253.3 kB
- Signer
- Not applicable
- First seen
- Mar 9, 2026On VirusTotal.
- Submitted by
- 90 distinct sources
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
0 of 67 engines flagged this file
8 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-236 engines0flagged
- Low-trust13 engines0flagged
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- AcronisClean
- AhnLab-V3Clean
- AlibabaClean
- alibabacloudClean
- ALYacClean
- Antiy-AVLClean
- APEXNo result
- ArcabitClean
- AvastClean
- Avast-MobileClean
- AVGClean
- AviraClean
- BitDefenderClean
- BitDefenderFalxNo result
- BkavClean
- CAT-QuickHealClean
- ClamAVClean
- CMCClean
- CrowdStrikeClean
- CTXClean
- CylanceNo result
- 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
- PaloaltoNo result
- PandaClean
- RisingClean
- SangforClean
- SentinelOneClean
- SkyhighClean
- SophosClean
- SUPERAntiSpywareClean
- SymantecClean
- SymantecMobileInsightNo result
- TACHYONClean
- tehtrisNo result
- TencentClean
- TrapmineNo result
- TrellixENSClean
- TrendMicroClean
- TrendMicro-HouseCallClean
- TrustlookNo result
- VaristClean
- VBA32Clean
- VIPREClean
- VirITClean
- ViRobotClean
- WebrootClean
- XcitiumClean
- YandexClean
- ZillyaClean
- 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)
How widely this file has been seen
Moderate prevalence — neither rare nor common. No strong prior applies.
Chapter 05
Questions & answers
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