At the 27th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, FireEye security researcher Julia Wolf recently described several security flaws in Adobe's PDF standard.

"For instance, a PDF can reportedly contain a database scanner that becomes active and scans a network when the document is printed on a network printer," writes The H Security's Stefan Krempl.

"Wolf said that the document format is also full of other surprises," Krempl writes. "For example, it is reportedly possible to write PDFs which display different content in different operating systems, browsers or PDF readers -- or even depending on a computer's language settings."

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