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How to Create a Fake PDF Trojan with AppleScript

posted onMay 22, 2018
by l33tdawg

While hackers have taken advantage of numerous vulnerabilities in Adobe's products to deliver payloads to Windows users via PDF files, a malicious PDF file can also wreak havoc on a Mac that's using the default Preview app. So think twice before double-clicking a PDF open on your MacBook — it might just be a Trojan with a rootkit inside.

In this small, two-part series, I'll detail how a hacker could create a file that appears to be an ordinary PDF file but is actually a Trojanized AppleScript that will silently execute malicious code on a target MacBook or other Mac computer. In the GIF below, you can see a real PDF being opened as well as its fake PDF version with the malicious code.

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