OSX/HiddenLotus is a malware dropper/application bundle that uses a novel technique to masquerades as a '.pdf'. The 'd' in the extension is actually an encoded Roman numeral. Because it isn't a true '.pdf' extension the pdf handler is not invoked. This causes macOS to fall back to the bundle structure and launch it as an application when double-clicked by the user [1].
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