To avoid detection, hackers employed a new method dubbed “MalDoc in PDF” to insert a malicious Word file into a PDF file. Despite having magic numbers and a PDF-specific file format, a file created with MalDoc in PDF may be opened in Word. If the file includes a configured macro, running it in Word causes VBS […]

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