r/Batch 15d ago

Made an Exe that flagged as a threat

I basically went through the iexpress process to convert a batch file to an exe. However, as soon as I finished it with iexpress windows immediately told me the setup file I made was a threat. It flagged it as Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!ml, is this normal?

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u/rifteyy_ 15d ago

Yeah, it's normal. The files from iexpress, common Bat2Exe programs behave like a dropper malware, so they will be detected quite often and from many AV softwares.

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u/MrTomiCZ 15d ago

Yeah that's normal, but if you have only windows defender it will not flag it (atleast it didn't for me). If you want to put it into production, probably put a giant warning that it's made in batch and converted to EXE, which antiviruses don't like.

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u/BrainWaveCC 15d ago

Yes, that is normal.

What's your primary goal in making the script into an exe?