Object defined twice with divergent /Filter chains

PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_DIVERGENT

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high PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_DIVERGENT

What it means

Same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once in the file, and the definitions declare different /Filter chains.

Why it fires

Readers that take the first definition decode different bytes than readers that take the last definition (PDF spec is ambiguous on which wins; Acrobat takes last). Divergent filter chains across the duplicates is a deliberate parser-divergence pattern: benign content is shown to scanners while malicious content is shown to the actual reader.

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