How can downloading a pdf or word file give you a virus?

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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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You could create a PDF that doesn’t conform to the PDF standard. Your special PDF could exploit a bug in a PDF reader app. Maybe a bug that lets you run code or open a webpage without asking the user when it is fed a specially created file.

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