On Thu, 3 Mar 2016, Marc Perkel wrote:
A customer of mine inquired about executable viruses inside of PDF files. Is
that so? And if it is - is there any way of detecting executables inside of
PDF?
I don't know that PDFs can contain classical ".exe" type executables but they
can clearly contain 'active content' (javascript, flash, etc) which can be
abused as a malware delivery vehicle.
So for practical purposes PDFs can be considered potential virus containers.
AV scanners have rules for detecting malware inside PDFs but that's always a
catch-up game.
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