MALICIOUS
178
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell
T1204.002 Malicious File
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1071.001 Web Protocols
The PDF file contains XFA forms with executable scripts and an embedded file payload, indicating it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81' strongly suggests a malicious dropper. The embedded script likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload, which is a common technique for delivering malware.
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.bin38c81935ce11af5f7ac843faedee50e3f72f9fb62219a5761db7ba2d82e88742 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 | 65 bytes |
embedded_file_obj0010.bin0c731745dece541851895b880d045401950d97b1566366ff1ead9878db3c02f8 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x1EE | 802 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.bin53366cec01e14ca0a8754800c9fdbf9563283b00862cc966620c0ea20ad32d65 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x55B | 26567 bytes |
embedded_file_obj0012.bin103d1e7983cf88bfacedddb4af33ffb5317d9c2c8b3e1bfd987b2c5d712bc985 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x6D6D | 323 bytes |
embedded_file_obj0014.binf87eb6de05cca8bc3ae4439301ffeb174f2ccce13082198ed2509bd8b4519ed8 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x6EFA | 164 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 0x6FE4 | 77 bytes |
embedded_file_obj0016.bin78b09463af5cd373870eae2e3e83de87b7f6b659e0d0117ab4c09d90ebb2ad95 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x7078 | 68 bytes |
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