MALICIOUS
208
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell
T1204.002 Malicious File
This PDF file contains embedded scripts and is flagged by multiple high-severity heuristics, including PDF_EVAL and PDF_XFA_SCRIPT, indicating malicious script execution. The ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81' strongly suggests it's a known exploit dropper. The embedded scripts likely download and execute a second-stage payload, leveraging the PDF viewer's vulnerabilities.
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.bin76e71e452338d7384967dbf3b8d5c06bea128714940cb02957dd801959b08deb |
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.bin30e929a0d5c007b9c3fd8274e881bda5e1a9d3f74b78d0670b19c4b90db31795 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x55C | 26307 bytes |
embedded_file_obj0012.bin103d1e7983cf88bfacedddb4af33ffb5317d9c2c8b3e1bfd987b2c5d712bc985 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x6C6A | 323 bytes |
embedded_file_obj0014.bin9035511eba39b5ffb4bdec81b45c98867875af195e374d460662ede3e9237621 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x6DF7 | 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 0x6EE0 | 77 bytes |
embedded_file_obj0016.bin78b09463af5cd373870eae2e3e83de87b7f6b659e0d0117ab4c09d90ebb2ad95 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x6F74 | 68 bytes |
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