DFG Project

security and privacy of PDF documents

In this project, we will elaborate on three security topics related to PDF documents: usage and detection of PDF-malware, tampering digitally signed PDFs, and discovering of privacy leaks in PDFs. Finally, countermeasures hardening the PDF document format and the implementations will we proposed.

This is my first DFG funded project as a principal investigator. The project is a collaboration with Vladislav Mladenov