Chcon

Roger Dunham

After years of dabbling in a wide range of subjects, I've been working with PDFs for the last seven years. I've written code, created bugs, and probably a few vulnerabilities. These days I'm paid to be a technical writer, and find other people's bugs, but I hide things in PDFs just for fun.
I also play button accordion, Morris dance and often wear a pirate hat.


Session

11-23
17:25
25min
PDF structure and places where you can hide things.
Roger Dunham

There are trillions of PDFs in the world, and their very ubiquity makes them a file type where 'bad people' might store malicious code. The ability to quickly identify malicious files is essential and tools such as Remnux, peepdf and RUPS will be discussed, along with some examples of other things that can be hidden within the PDF file format.

Main Track
Ngaio Marsh Theatre