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Marco IvaldiCVE-2025-48708: #ghostscript can embed plaintext #password in encrypted #PDFs 😶
R.L. Dane 
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New #blog post: Desperately Seeking Preview.app
https://rldane.space/desperately-seeking-previewapp.html
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Kind of a follow-up to yesterday's blost, but also informative for those who work with PDFs in Linux.
Thanks to https://infinitemac.org for enabling me to get the screenshot of Preview.app on NeXTStep 1.0. So awesome!!!!
cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn
(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
P.S., I really hope someone gets the 1980s movie reference. Even though I've never seen said movie. 😄
P.P.S., @scruss informs me that Firefox's built-in PDF viewer can do (almost) all of the annotation things I've been trying to do with multiple apps. I'm kinda shook!
#100DaysToOffload #50 #FIFTY! #HalfwayThere
#rlDaneWriting #blost #Macintosh #NeXT #NeXTStep #Retrocomputing (a little) #InfiniteMac #PreviewApp #PDF #PDFs #Linux
Susan BordaOut of these 175K+ files #veraPDF indicatesd that 85 were ‘invalid PDFs’. #JHOVE thinks that 31 of these 85 #pdfs are valid. Hmmm… #digipres #digitalpreservation
DEVONtechnologiesTip of the day: Smart groups are a good way to view items matching specific criteria, like all the flagged #PDFs in your #DEVONthink database. While it’s easy enough to make a smart group, if you find yourself doing the same search over and over, you can use it to create a smart group in a few clicks. #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday #workflow https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20240102-reuse-search-devonthink-smartgroup
Tip of the day: If you have a need to watermark or put identifying information on #PDFs or images, the Pro and Server editions of #DEVONthink can do this for you. It’s called imprinting and we show you how you set up and use it. #paperless #pdf #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday #workflow https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/202040709-imprint-documents
Here are the results of running veraPDF ua1 against 175K PDFs from our docs repository. I also have a text file with all of the error text to go through. VeraPDF made a ~15GB json file. Accessibility rules 7.1 and 7.2 were our worst. I need to rerun this against ua2. #pdfs #pdf #accessibility #digitalpreservation
InternetlanLas mejores apps para ver y editar #PDFs en #android guía completa vía #AndroidAyuda
⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯Just released version 1.16.8 of The Pdfalyzer with a bunch of new and updated #YARA rules to scan #PDF files for malicious content. Links in the quoted toot below.
https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114768170683991686
#ascii #asciiArt #blueteam #cybersecurity #detectionEngineering #DFIR #forensics #FOSS #hacking #homebrew #infosec #KaliLinux #malware #malwareDetection #malwareAnalysis #openSource #pdf #pdfs #pdfalyzer #pypi #python #redteam #reverseEngineering #reversing #Threatassessment #threathunting #yaralyze #yaralyzer #YARA #YARArule #YARArules
⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ (@cryptadamist@universeodon.com)
Attached: 1 image Just published version 1.16.6 of The Pdfalyzer, the surprisingly popular tool for analyzing (possibly malicious) PDFs I created after my own unpleasant encounter with such a creature. Includes a (kind of janky) #YARA rule for #GIFTEDCROOK infostealer PDFs. * Github: https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/pdfalyzer * Pypi: https://pypi.org/project/pdfalyzer/ * Homebrew: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/pdfalyzer #pypi #python #pdf #pdfs #malware #Threatassessment #maldoc #malwareanalysis #homebrew #infosec #cybersecurity #yararule
Tip of the day: The Content inspectors in #DEVONthink 4 are especially useful for #PDFs, as they provide an overview of the document. You get a table of contents and thumbnails of the document’s pages. With #DEVONthink 4, you can also customize a #PDF’s outline. #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20250520-devonthink-pdf-content-inspectors
