Question Weird folder in 'My Documents' ?

[Scrubs0]

Hi all, found a weird folder in My Documents titled 'fe214af49d9146de8ee21cc5537cea9c'

Inside the path looks like this 'CacheDir\titlestorage\aa598567414d42378187b8861da550f7'

Inside that there're files called '__cache_registry_lock' and 'events.json'
Any one have any idea what are these files and if i should be worried?
help would be appreciated

Oh and if it matters, the size is 168 bytes
I checked the files with Malwarebytes and Jotti's malware scan and all files came back clean.

 

[Crowii]

Worried? I wouldn't be.

As the folder further up the directory implies, they're just cache files.
The seemingly odd directory naming is just hashing, very normal and often desired for cache.
Cache locking is also very normal, and that's what "__cache_registry_lock" refers to.
"events.json" is pretty much as the name implies, just events in json format.

Nothing blatantly off there, can't rule out it isn't an insidious piece of software's cache, but I wouldn't put my bets on it.

Some Wikipedia links for some start in self studying, rather than pasting a half-baked, somewhat correct software engineering degree into a forum post to someone who's just worried if they've got malware:
Cache
Hashing
Events in programming

 

[Scrubs0]

When trying to open the JSON file with Reader it shows a bunch of gibberish
Isn't JSON files supposed to contain plain text?

 

[gardenman]

A quick search for "Documents\CacheDir\titlestorage\" shows a few hits for things like Epic Games, RUST, and the Unreal Engine.

Do you have any of that installed?

 

[Scrubs0]

Hmm, Remnant 2 I guess, which is also the game I played on the date the folder was created