MALICIOUS
178
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
T1059.001 PowerShell
This PDF document contains embedded executable scripts within its XFA forms, indicated by multiple PDF-specific heuristic firings including PDF_EVAL and PDF_XFA_SCRIPT. The ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81' strongly suggests it's a known exploit. The embedded scripts are likely designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, a common technique for delivering malware.
Heuristics 8
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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
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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.
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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-template/2.5/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/
Extracted artifacts 7
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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embedded_file_obj0008.bin04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 | 67 bytes |
embedded_file_obj0009.bin10524c8841105d398f3e8e8c790bc322eaa76a0f71d67929337ac5d9e1752e52 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 | 815 bytes |
embedded_file_obj0010.bin0704e53451984cad637df829d928999f75cd61fcfe2c8b263f5b24d436f15c4b |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x4DC | 101 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.binaf49f25d30811d0e73ddb832e8a8a15c8e2c05b54d2a8c9da10998db4ceae15e |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x58C | 72341 bytes |
embedded_file_obj0012.bin6dfc2cfc739bf5cd5514e048143c782a1af7b4c86ed10bd88203471efa9b3fe7 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x1206C | 389 bytes |
embedded_file_obj0014.bin9f69c42e66b0c1666412737dc9cf4aa42379ee793c4ad8d07130781756ea33d5 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x1223E | 65 bytes |
embedded_file_obj0015.bin51d6d76eddb1746e412f89f4d1c1b0d620c60fb4a5641c018e93871be63968a9 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0x122C9 | 147 bytes |
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