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The Warranty Form With a Windows Executable Hidden Inside a GIF

ID: c082b09c-717e-5f32-a519-9c00df6fe6b8

STIX ID: report--c082b09c-717e-5f32-a519-9c00df6fe6b8

Feed Name: IRONSCALES

Threat Score
72/100

Date Published: 2026-05-21

Date Updated: 2026-05-21

Author: [email protected] (Audian Paxson)

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**Steganographic Malware Delivered via Legitimate Supplier Email:** A UK food quality vendor's legitimate-looking email (sleafordqf.com, DMARC p=reject) contained clean PDF and DOCX attachments and branding images; one GIF image (image189059.gif, 141,951 bytes) had a Windows PE header embedded at byte ~80761, hiding an executable payload that static, format-aware scanners missed, leading to quarantine by Themis. The incident demonstrates a stealthy supply-chain-like delivery using steganography and spearphishing attachments (MITRE T1027.003, T1566.001, T1204.002).

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