A pdf file doesnt have any special permissions or anything so i cant think of any way that itd be able to
is viewing a pdf file in chrome completly safe?
how does editing a word document leave you more vulnerable than if you were just viewing it?
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Someone’s watching LTT,
Yes a PDF can be malicious if it’s not really a PDF, but code designed to LOOK alike a pdf to you and to your computer.
I can right now make a script and change it’s icon and extension and windows will be sure it’s a PNG file, I double click it and a shell script runs in a CMD prompt then vanishes. What did it do? Who knows.. am I in trouble? Almost certainly.
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