MALICIOUS
68
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1204.002 Malicious File
The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious with a high confidence score. Static analysis revealed an embedded file, which is a common technique for delivering secondary payloads. The embedded file itself was identified as a suspicious artifact.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 4
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Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOADPDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
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Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDEDPDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
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XFA form low PDF_XFAPDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
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Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGEOne 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.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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embedded_file_obj0007.bin2e917625108957f8b28e6bc27b8c89eee96502346a2f18e0a3a685c3c99adfa3 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 7 at offset 0xB54 | 6948 bytes |
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Detection
ClamAV:
No threats found
Obfuscation or payload:
likely
Carved artifact contains 4 long base64-like blob(s).
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