MALICIOUS
98
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
The critical ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-156969-1' strongly indicates this PDF is designed to exploit a vulnerability. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to deliver and execute a secondary malicious payload. The document body text is largely unreadable, providing no direct clues about the lure.
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.bin34a84f28b8cfdacb054044b8d221d8c2b36a0b897ed9953f8846ff2b6a7f78d6 |
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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