Malwarebytes thinks these Matlab files are malware
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Malwarebytes flagged the 4 files below from my R2020b installation. Has anyone else experienced this? Can I safely assume it's a false alarm?
C:\PROGRAM FILES\MATLAB\R2020B\BIN\WIN64\LIBMWINT16TOUINT16.DLL
C:\PROGRAM FILES\MATLAB\R2020B\BIN\WIN64\LIBMWUINT16TOINT16.DLL
C:\PROGRAM FILES\MATLAB\R2020B\BIN\WIN64\LIBMWINT16TOUINT16.DLL
C:\PROGRAM FILES\MATLAB\R2020B\BIN\WIN64\LIBMWUINT16TOINT16.DLL
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Aditya Patil
on 13 May 2021
Edited: Aditya Patil
on 13 May 2021
Can you share the sha256 hashes for these files, and the output of version command? The windows syntax for sha256 is
CertUtil -hashfile <FilePath> sha256
For linux, use the sha256sum command as follows,
sha256sum <FilePath>
The hashes should be,
b8bdbba6d35032838660db48df16b4a1b63550d56b52cea620e478720d6a4f87 for libmwint16touint16.dll
and
f6db907086c2cacd59d295dd7cf92287f81a11cf20f3e7433ec07ad8c1e7f7d2 for libmwuint16toint16.dll
unless there has been changes in the file during updates, in which case, the output of version command will help.
Accepted Answer
Jan
on 14 May 2021
Edited: Jan
on 14 May 2021
The hash values are correct. This means, that the virus scanner produces a false alarm. You can determine this also by sending the files to malwarebytes for a detailed analysis.
By the way, the message contains the files twice, so it matters 2 files only, not 4.
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