MALICIOUS
116
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution
T1059.007 JavaScript
The PDF file contains embedded script content and is flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. The embedded script likely facilitates the download and execution of a secondary payload, as suggested by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' and 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' detections. The benign URLs present do not detract from the malicious indicators.
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 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 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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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.bin2148601bf7e66b70ac81cebcbc33143bb83979bf35b6225390b833668f1db50e |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 | 15013 bytes |
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