The reaction between 5-fluoro-isatin and hydroxyl-amine hydro-chloride in acidic ethanol yields the title compound, CHFNO, whose mol-ecular structure matches the asymmetric unit and is nearly planar with an r.m.s. deviation for the mean plane through all non-H atoms of 0.0363 Å. In the crystal, the mol-ecules are linked by N-H⋯N, N-H⋯O and O-H⋯O hydrogen-bonding inter-actions into a two-dimensional network along the (100) plane, forming rings with (8) and (5) graph-set motifs. The crystal packing also features weak π-π inter-actions along the [100] direction [centroid-to-centroid distance 3.9860 (5) Å]. Additionally, the Hirshfeld surface analysis indicates that the major contributions for the crystal structure are the O⋯H (28.50%) and H⋯F (16.40%) inter-actions. An evaluation of the title compound with the vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-2 (VEGFR-2) was carried out. The title compound and the selected biological target VEGFR-2 show the N-H⋯O(), ()N-H⋯O(isatine) and ()N-H⋯O(isatine) inter-molecular inter-actions, which suggests a solid theoretical structure-activity relationship.