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A .WAV With A Payload, (Tue, Apr 21st)

ID: e9d3b0cf-11aa-5ebe-b342-9ec641b75ac4

STIX ID: report--e9d3b0cf-11aa-5ebe-b342-9ec641b75ac4

Feed Name: SANS ISC Diary

Threat Score
45/100

Date Published: 2026-04-21

Date Updated: 2026-04-21

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This short analysis demonstrates a technique where threat actors replace the audio bytes of a .wav file with a BASE64 representation of an XOR-encoded PE executable. The author shows extracting the payload with a base64 dump, recovering the XOR key via a known-plaintext attack targeting the DOS header, and extracting the decoded PE for further analysis.

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