Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b46ccf6e820ea485…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB First seen: 2026-06-10
MD5: 7f9b3e3b1b1cc1f56c2d20df547156ba SHA-1: 8d245212d7063197eeb2f54b0f9f56f7d79607a4 SHA-256: b46ccf6e820ea485905cb4929699fba7e4ef4d786a6cb77f2414fbd5ae68c078
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: f218e5a37a7391b403cabb4594a689d8bd8999c7a0ec574ffd05284f1e420848
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