On 03/03/16 13:02, David B Funk wrote:
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.
Hi David,
Is there a way to detect any executable code so that I can just block
all PDF files with executables.
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