MALICIOUS
210
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell
T1204.002 Malicious File
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
This PDF file exhibits multiple high-severity heuristic firings related to embedded scripts and XFA forms, indicating malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest it's a malicious exploit. The presence of embedded files and scripts points to a downloader or dropper functionality, likely to fetch and execute further malicious content. The 'eval()' call is a common technique for obfuscating malicious JavaScript within PDF documents.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
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 8
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.bine2e0f6c5cb2e0b2697da89386bfc3718eedaf1b6a2b1d24dd1176d27117bf77a |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 | 781 bytes |
embedded_file_obj0010.binad20ac4a4ae26d077e83c3e5a252a4d4ecda7d78e0685b1ad8c16c111de72bb3 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x4BA | 87 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.bin31af5edd0350d3e6802db28cce8ad70544d1c3b91dd8fcc1f18f3b27df36ef0f |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x55C | 16444 bytes |
embedded_file_obj0012.bin103d1e7983cf88bfacedddb4af33ffb5317d9c2c8b3e1bfd987b2c5d712bc985 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x45E3 | 323 bytes |
embedded_file_obj0014.bin1f4221f3c271d0f3238132e5f5dab398d0d20e1003905b3fff27860ae3b17fc2 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x4770 | 163 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_obj0015.bine6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0x4859 | 77 bytes |
embedded_file_obj0016.bin78b09463af5cd373870eae2e3e83de87b7f6b659e0d0117ab4c09d90ebb2ad95 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x48ED | 68 bytes |
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