This is amazing and terrifying (I am a security engineer and parsing complex document formats is a never-ending treasure trove of vulnerabilities).
The amount of attack surface in various format parsers is pretty stunning and terrifying indeed
Theres a malaysian movie where the main premise is a hacker who uses pdf executions to steal one cent from every persons bank account. Its pretty interesting.
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The "code execution" in PDF parsing is what enabled this legendary zero-click, zero-day exploit of iOS devices: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i...
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AI agents run in isolated VMs, but PDFs have been out here running in the open for 30 years!
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This isn't even the beginning of what's possible in PDFs.