MALICIOUS
206
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
The PDF file contains XFA forms with executable scripts, including eval() calls and String.fromCharCode, indicating malicious intent. ML classification and ClamAV detection strongly suggest it's a dropper for a secondary payload. The embedded file object, identified as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81 by ClamAV, is likely the dropped payload.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 9
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XFA form contains risky executable script high PDF_XFA_SCRIPTPDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
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ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81 critical CLAMAV_DETECTIONClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81
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eval() call high PDF_EVALeval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution (matched inside decoded stream)
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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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String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODEString.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules. (matched inside decoded stream)
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Embedded script payload in PDF stream low 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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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.
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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/xci/1.0/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
Extracted artifacts 7
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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embedded_file_obj0008.bind81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x19E | 84 bytes |
embedded_file_obj0009.bin24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x237 | 228 bytes |
embedded_file_obj0010.bin738cf380508d978d2da7c720ae6418f6e3e13f283741be51f108671b8918bf89 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x377 | 1181 bytes |
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Detection
ClamAV:
No threats found
Obfuscation or payload:
likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
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embedded_file_obj0011.binc97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x63E | 199 bytes |
embedded_file_obj0012.bina3be47efcb251db773b2c55099a6fabf82c68e9d18ce8fb80029c06105b3ea39 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x730 | 29912 bytes |
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Detection
ClamAV:
No threats found
Obfuscation or payload:
likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
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embedded_file_obj0013.bine6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 13 at offset 0x3601 | 77 bytes |
embedded_file_obj0014.bin92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x3695 | 56 bytes |
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