MALICIOUS
126
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment
The PDF was flagged by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file strongly suggests it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download a secondary payload. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are associated with XFA forms, a known vector for PDF exploits.
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.bin43efab23982ee5157d98bb6a838ae000acdee653a31bd0da6cbf95664a0f9b17 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 | 19041 bytes |
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