MALICIOUS
96
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
The critical ClamAV heuristic 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' strongly indicates this PDF is malicious and likely exploits a known vulnerability to drop a secondary payload. The presence of an embedded script payload further supports this, suggesting the PDF's primary function is to initiate an exploit chain. While specific IOCs beyond the ClamAV signature are limited, the embedded nature and exploit detection point to a delivery mechanism for further malicious activity.
Heuristics 5
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ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTIONClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
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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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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.URL http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
Extracted artifacts 1
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
embedded_file_obj0008.bin77f58c5576d541fd76c7ace081e42fa8cdbff35bf190815465baa420be79cbaf |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 | 11420 bytes |
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