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Vulnerability Exploitations Using Steganography in PDF Files


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1 Intelligent Systems Research Center, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
 

This article analyses the ways malicious executable files hides with Steganography on the most used files of our daily basis such as PDF, Word, Text, and Image. It demonstrates how data is hidden and gathers innovative ways of identifying potential attacks to prevent them by engaging the safety and exploitation of files distributed online. It is concerned with infected files that can have malicious executable applications embedded, executing itself upon the opening of the original file. Several experiments are detailed exploiting gaps in PDF, email and image files in order to draw awareness to security professionals and Ethical hackers’ trainees.

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Digital Attacks, Email Security, Ethical Hacking, PDF Security, Steganography.
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Authors

Istteffanny Isloure Araujo
Intelligent Systems Research Center, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Hassan Kazemian
Intelligent Systems Research Center, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom

Abstract


This article analyses the ways malicious executable files hides with Steganography on the most used files of our daily basis such as PDF, Word, Text, and Image. It demonstrates how data is hidden and gathers innovative ways of identifying potential attacks to prevent them by engaging the safety and exploitation of files distributed online. It is concerned with infected files that can have malicious executable applications embedded, executing itself upon the opening of the original file. Several experiments are detailed exploiting gaps in PDF, email and image files in order to draw awareness to security professionals and Ethical hackers’ trainees.

Keywords


Digital Attacks, Email Security, Ethical Hacking, PDF Security, Steganography.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22247/ijcna%2F2020%2F193270