MALICIOUS
126
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
The file is a PDF document flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 and a machine learning classifier with high confidence. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and drop further malicious content. The presence of XFA form elements and embedded URLs, though benign or unknown, are common in exploit documents.
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 |
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embedded_file_obj0008.binfab50dd2592c57baf9c13ba3f47ffedea2a5122e1813cee3c0d4a864789bd39d |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 | 25987 bytes |
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