How to check whether a printer driver is malicious or not
While downloading a printer driver from the company's website, redirected to a google drive link. Google warning says it could be malicious.
The company is MEPL- based in India, but it is using a driver of Pantum - based in China and distributing the driver through the google drive link. This seemed suspicious however, on proceeding, i found a warning from google.
On proceeding further on an obsolete system, I found multiple warnings by windows also.
I scanned the driver .exe file using quickheal antivirus however, nothing was detected.
I checked the .exe file on virustotal also, but nothing was flagged.
i checked the googledrive link only to find that the link was flagged as malicious by 3/93 vendors on virustotal.
How could I ascertain whether the .exe file is only a printer driver and doesn't contain a kind of malware embedded.
PS: i m new to the field of cybersecurity hence, can't distinguish between paranoia and awareness
