Certified portable document format (PDF) files are used to securely sign agreements between two parties while keeping the contents’ integrity protected, but a new report found the security protections on most certified PDF applications were inadequate and left organizations exposed to a number of attacks.
Researchers from Ruhr University Bochum explained certified PDFs use two specific signatures to authenticate the document, an Approval signature and a Certification signature. Certification signatures are the more flexible and made to handle complicated agreements between multiple parties and allow some changes to the document within a set of parameters while still maintaining its validity.
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Source: ThreatPost