Timeline for How to safely view a malicious PDF?
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| Jun 21, 2017 at 10:26 | answer | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 8, 2017 at 13:26 | comment | added | Arlix | Open it up...but not in an old version of adobe reader etc that has known vulnerabilities. Safest way is in a VM but that doesn't mean when you find nothing and open it on your normal machine it is safe. | |
| Mar 8, 2017 at 11:00 | answer | added | Valer | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 18, 2017 at 19:53 | answer | added | barbecue | timeline score: 8 | |
| Feb 15, 2017 at 11:24 | answer | added | Lee | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 14, 2017 at 22:35 | history | edited | Anders | edited tags | |
| Mar 18, 2016 at 11:52 | answer | added | filo | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 5, 2013 at 10:13 | comment | added | FirstName LastName | @curiousguy - ok. I don't know this. Why does someone have legal JS code in a PDF OR What does it do that a non-JS PDF cannot? | |
| Oct 3, 2012 at 22:44 | answer | added | d3t0n4t0r | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 13, 2012 at 22:04 | review | First posts | |||
| Sep 18, 2012 at 17:06 | |||||
| Aug 24, 2012 at 16:06 | comment | added | Ramhound | If a PDF contains malicious software then it no longer should be viewed. Besides non-malicious content likely doesn't even exist. You could also open the PDF file in a Linux virtual machine, but like I said, the content is likely gone. | |
| Aug 24, 2012 at 11:15 | comment | added | adric | There may be a question here as to whether static or dynamic analysis is most effective. | |
| Aug 24, 2012 at 8:36 | answer | added | ysdx | timeline score: 12 | |
| Aug 24, 2012 at 7:12 | history | edited | Rory Alsop♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 | edited title |
| Aug 23, 2012 at 22:15 | history | rollback | AviD♦ | Rollback to Revision 4 | |
| Aug 20, 2012 at 16:41 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Aug 20, 2012 at 6:47 | answer | added | user65388 | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 20, 2012 at 5:04 | answer | added | tcpiplab | timeline score: 7 | |
| Aug 20, 2012 at 3:20 | history | rollback | user11101 | Rollback to Revision 1 | |
| Aug 20, 2012 at 3:04 | history | edited | Mike Samuel | edited tags | |
| Aug 19, 2012 at 20:22 | answer | added | B-Con | timeline score: 25 | |
| Aug 19, 2012 at 19:25 | comment | added | Luc | The thing I would do is open it in a virtual machine without network access. | |
| Aug 19, 2012 at 19:24 | history | edited | Luc | edited tags | |
| Aug 19, 2012 at 17:57 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSecurity/status/237247049786085376 | ||
| Aug 19, 2012 at 17:45 | answer | added | tylerl | timeline score: 43 | |
| S Aug 19, 2012 at 17:40 | history | suggested | Andrei Botalov | CC BY-SA 3.0 | improve body and remove unnecessary info |
| Aug 19, 2012 at 17:26 | comment | added | curiousguy | Is it of a JS kind? I think you can turn off JS. | |
| Aug 19, 2012 at 17:13 | review | Suggested edits | |||
| S Aug 19, 2012 at 17:40 | |||||
| Aug 19, 2012 at 17:02 | history | asked | user11101 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |