Alongside the extensive DeepSeek fingerprints, we observed a high degree of novelty in the dataset. Approximately 39% of analyzed samples had zero detections by signature‑based antivirus engines at the time of collection, evidence that AI-assisted development is producing code with no existing signature fingerprint. When we examined attribution separately, only 1.4% of AI‑assisted samples mapped to known threat groups, showing that the surge in new malware is being driven largely by unknown or lower‑skill actors, not mature clusters; expanding volume more than sophistication.