From Attachments to SEO: Click Here to Learn More about Clickbait PDFs!
Giada Stivala, Sahar Abdelnabi, Andrea Mengascini, Mariano Graziano, Mario Fritz, Giancarlo Pellegrino · Annual Computer Security Applications Conference · 2023
Clickbait PDFs are PDF documents that do not embed malware but trick victims into visiting malicious web pages leading to attacks like password theft or drive-by download. While recent reports indicate a surge of clickbait PDFs, prior works have largely neglected this new threat, considering PDFs only as accessories of email phishing campaigns.