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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PDFs are not just pure documents. For example if they have a signable field it’s using macros that are stored as Javascript code.
This code can be malicious. So your Adobe Reader will run this script if you allow it to and this script can then do harm.
By default you will get a warning if you want to run this code, but plenty of people will just click accept.
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