Specificially https://en.z-lib.gs/

I downloaded some pdfs from there and according to virustotal and some pdf online scanner i tried, they have something possibly malicious going on in them. I already deleted them but i opened them in firefox pdf reader. I dont have acrobat installed.

Scanning my system with malwarebytes now, but nothing is finding anything wrong and I havent seen any suspicious activity.

Here is the analysis itself.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/f3140c932ab57256a8438eba31d18e4baee1413e7ec23d93b1c1f5194b6dea95/behavior

I’m starting to panic, please help if you have any advice


Thank you all, you are wonderful people

  • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    That virultotal report looks completely fine to me, including the behavior tab.

    Regardless, imagine what would happen if the firefox pdf reader was vulnerable to a well-known attack (of course there probably exist 0 days but they wouldn’t be burned on you). Any attacker could simply link you a PDF and you’d be infected simply for clicking the link? If this was true, people would stop using firefox because it would be insecure.