Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a9b3f8154e06368…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB First seen: 2026-06-09
MD5: 74572018c2d2602a4ca7771d025a27d8 SHA-1: d12f7414bba931276a0f8591db5d37ef28e8419d SHA-256: 6a9b3f8154e0636870a36291f6944f3ab473a26701a9c3c9fe3a4a87b0ee3f78
130 Risk Score

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9959

Heuristics 2

  • Base64-encoded Windows executable payload in PDF critical PDF_BASE64_PE_PAYLOAD
    PDF text contains a long base64 blob that decodes to a verified Windows PE executable. This catches payloads hidden after EOF, inside comments, or in plain text outside normal PDF streams.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
base64_pdf_pe_00000284.exe embedded-pe PDF raw base64 PE payload at offset 0x284 52736 bytes
SHA-256: c1f8768a64245cb23722564fe7ce5e7182cc27992e7f7d138ee0f9a05b79e38d
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
actual_type=PE; declared_or_context_type=PDF; filename=base64_pdf_pe_00000284.exe; kind=embedded-pe Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_PUSH_STRING, SC_STR_VIRTUALALLOC, SC_STR_POWERSHELL Static shellcode analysis recovered API/import strings: VirtualAlloc, VirtualAllocEx, WriteProcessMemory, CreateRemoteThread, OpenProcess Static shellcode analysis recovered command string(s): PowerShell