Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac6735264b2852f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB First seen: 2026-06-09
MD5: ace0da286ed89afbda5f898bb3729bbc SHA-1: 51c4123432bd50c5cb19ed7474a14f40e8cfec6f SHA-256: ac6735264b2852f3120f825910b650c8953f9a86a756973764edaec0b30c946a
130 Risk Score

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9870

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 53248 bytes
SHA-256: 9218a86eff63e8005483a943e48eaa0f67164138330e6e358db497348b181dc1
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