Questions tagged [pdf]
Portable Document Format, a document format from Adobe with a pretty complex file format which makes it susceptible to frequent vulnerabilities.
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convert Pdf to Executable
I am taking a intro to reversing course. After learning patching we got a home work to find the flag and write a writeup on how we did it. Part of the riddle is to figure out where exactly to find the ...
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PDF file have two trailers?
If I analyse multiple PDF files with a hex editor, I see that all of them have two trailers.
That's possible if an object has changed or renewed (https://blog.idrsolutions.com/multiple-trailers-in-a-...
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Adobe Reader JIT Pages
I use Adobe Reader XI for a little research project.
I know that Adobe use SpiderMonkey as its JS engine.
When opening a .pdf file that contains JS, the JS code is compiled in runtime in parts (JIT)...
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Can I reverse engineer a pdf file to identify the creator's name?
Here is a quick question. Someone told me that I can reverse engineering a pdf file, extracting and analyzing the underlying XML files, and figure out the creator's name for this pdf.
However, I ...
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