Malicious PDF Documents Explained

  • Authors:
  • Didier Stevens

  • Affiliations:
  • Contraste Europe NV

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Attackers abuse bugs in PDF reader software to execute malware when users view malicious PDF documents with a preferred PDF reader. Besides producing patches to fix bugs, PDF reader producers use security features such as DEP and ASLR, and start using sandboxing, to protect your machine.