MALICIOUS
126
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment
The file is identified as a malicious PDF by ClamAV (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78) and a machine learning classifier. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities upon opening. The ML classifier output of 0.999995 further supports its malicious nature. The embedded URLs are not directly indicative of malicious activity, but the overall structure points to a typical exploit-based PDF.
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.bind8c105eac3dbc2c145465230c9b50c82d205ea814b858b078f4e8fe5078c0c18 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 | 11385 bytes |
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