How do you vet executables? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 days ago by akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I have found some software on 1337 that a friend was asking for. It's for Windows and I'm on Linux. Is test running the software inside a VM the only way to securely vet it (to see what connections it tries to make and what processes it starts)? On VirusTotal, I get one positive and 66 negatives. Preferably, I'd like to hand over the software without worrying about giving them malicious code...

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[-] eleijeep@piefed.social 14 points 3 days ago

VirusTotal also tells you a load of stuff about file read/writes and network access etc. What did it say? And what was the positive result for?

[-] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 days ago

Holy crap, I had no idea! Cool!

The one positive is a malicious.high.ml.score by Trapmine and I can't makes heads or tails of it.

Domains  
e592.d.akamaiedge.net
www.msn.com
www.msn.com.edgekey.net

IP  
23.50.32.0/20 (owned by Akamai Technologies, Inc.)

Execution Parents  
Crack 29.2.ZIP

None of these sub categories under Relations give any positives.

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

That doesn't look suspicious to me.

[-] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago

I can't really tell if that's sarcasm, but if it is, then this is a piracy community, so "Crack" doesn't mean much here. If it isn't sarcasm, then: yep. :)

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