MALICIOUS
126
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 PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection, indicating malicious intent. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the PDF is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary stage. The ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' further supports this, implying it's a dropper for further malicious content.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
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.binff48a557a29af52610343c43be7c885368d362325228b72c739f764a82a66064 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 | 18925 bytes |
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