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eevBLAB 110 - Linus Tech Tips HACKED!
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 26, 2023, 05:22:03 am ---https://xkcd.com/1137/
Always scan files you receive by e-mail. Even if they look like PDF.
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Gmail always does that for me, and if it detects something sus then it doesn't import it just leaves it on my server and sends me an email. It's got a built in viewer for PDF too, so I don't need to open an external PDF viewer.
thm_w:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 26, 2023, 10:11:21 pm ---
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 26, 2023, 05:22:03 am ---https://xkcd.com/1137/
Always scan files you receive by e-mail. Even if they look like PDF.
--- End quote ---
Gmail always does that for me, and if it detects something sus then it doesn't import it just leaves it on my server and sends me an email. It's got a built in viewer for PDF too, so I don't need to open an external PDF viewer.
--- End quote ---
From the other thread, the fake pdf file was zero-padded to be 700MB. Which meant gmail did not scan it for viruses (100MB limit).
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: thm_w on March 27, 2023, 09:16:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 26, 2023, 10:11:21 pm ---
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 26, 2023, 05:22:03 am ---https://xkcd.com/1137/
Always scan files you receive by e-mail. Even if they look like PDF.
--- End quote ---
Gmail always does that for me, and if it detects something sus then it doesn't import it just leaves it on my server and sends me an email. It's got a built in viewer for PDF too, so I don't need to open an external PDF viewer.
--- End quote ---
From the other thread, the fake pdf file was zero-padded to be 700MB. Which meant gmail did not scan it for viruses (100MB limit).
--- End quote ---
Even if it didn't scan it, would code actually be able to exectue using the internal gmail PDF viewer?
thm_w:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 27, 2023, 10:58:29 pm ---Even if it didn't scan it, would code actually be able to exectue using the internal gmail PDF viewer?
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No, it wouldn't execute using the internal PDF viewer.
But it was also zipped. Gmail won't let me read the PDF if its in a zip file. It only lets me see the file names in the zip, and then download said zip file. Maybe there is a way around it but its not obvious.
"Hey heres our sponsor package, please see terms inside: sponsor_docs.zip" something like that.
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