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Re:Is Firefox lying to users about viruses in downloads? by _cereal on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @12:42PM (#17458160)
It depends on the exploit and on the reader. If, for example, the reader supports javascript then it can be attacked, apart from other weaknesses. Chrome on Linux executes javascript in PDF, while Firefox does not.

Here is an example file: https://we.tl/q90gXERGmx

Built with https://github.com/cornerpirate/JS2PDFInjector

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