Malicious Photoshop (PSD) / .PNG — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17a91007d6746532…

MALICIOUS

Photoshop (PSD) / .PNG

2.86 MB First seen: 2026-03-03
MD5: 256a086436312e35db002706876bfba4 SHA-1: 62ab717a183d6fdd9c8b52d38a8952e2e50430bd SHA-256: 17a91007d6746532f2dc70ea1dd09a73652c8849c2a96b62247a76c530661625
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

The file contains an executable payload appended after the end of a Photoshop image, indicated by the IMAGE_TRAILING_OVERLAY_EXECUTABLE heuristic. This suggests the file is designed to be executed as a loader for a secondary payload. The embedded URLs are benign and do not provide further clues about the payload's origin or purpose.

Heuristics 2

  • Loader-delimited encoded payload appended after image end critical IMAGE_TRAILING_OVERLAY_EXECUTABLE
    A valid image is followed by a large appended overlay that begins with a known stego-loader delimiter (INICIO) and is dominated by the base64 alphabet. This is the AutoIt/.NET image-stego-loader carrier shape: a lure image with an encoded PE appended after its logical end for a loader to decode and execute.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceEvent#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceRef#
    • http://www.iec.ch

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