Using Applescript to identify a file with no extension?

Sometimes clients submit a file that has no extension and just shows up as a "document" is there any way to probe into it and get it's file type or creator or anything?
Getting the properties of it returns these...
file type: missing
Kind: document

if it is only a file here and there best is to use the command "file" on the CLI (Terminal)
Usage: file filename
file give you the filetype by matching the "magic number" in the fileheader
For more info use "man file" on Terminal

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Note:- currently, The scenario is working fine without dual extension. i.e Its picking all files which starts with ABC and creating at destination as it is. even I configured as ABC.txt.pgp, but its not creating the second extension.
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Hi,
Try to concatenate '.pgp ' to the source file name to create the target file name for the receiver file adapter, by accessing the Adapter Specific Attributes using Java user defined function. This might work.
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Every time u want to make a file u need to make its extension. I am talking
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