MALICIOUS
128
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-156969-1, and a machine learning classifier also flagged it with high confidence. The PDF contains an embedded script payload, indicating an attempt to exploit a vulnerability. The embedded artifact 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' likely contains the second-stage payload.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 5
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ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-156969-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTIONClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-156969-1
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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_obj0008.binc9472948c033256f9e3d1c063821f4421d9e1c28d0362c1a010b64688db5b443 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xBAF | 7163 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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