MALICIOUS
128
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File
T1566 Phishing
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution
The file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-156969-1'. An embedded script payload was also detected, indicating the PDF is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary malicious payload. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.
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.bin36739a6b50a744af567475bccf8755996595a94ddfe487f6ac98686c36c24e6c |
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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