Dissecting Malicious Word, PDF Documents

Abstract

Internet and computers are now a part of our daily routine life. With the development of network and information technology, E-mail has became increasingly popular and the society’s indispensable need. However, virus spreading via the E-mail is also increasing at an enormous rate. The E-mail attachment such as PDF Document, Microsoft Word Document, EXE program can spread viruses from one computer to another computer. This paper describes and analyses the various forms of the E-mail viruses via the Microsoft Word Documents and the PDF Documents. We describe the methodology to detect such E-mail viruses using tools such as OfficeMalscanner for Word Documents and PDF stream Dumper for PDF Documents.