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Offline Minty95

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Avast detecting viruses in clean PDF's (False-Positive)
« on: March 07, 2017, 04:54:51 PM »
Since Monday Avast Endpoint security has been over sensitive to PDF's containing links to webpages.

The links within the PDF's are to legitimate/clean webpages.

Once the links are removed from the documents Avast allows the PDF's to be opened by the end-user.

I have experienced this on a few occasions now.

Anyone else experiencing the same?

Regards,
« Last Edit: March 07, 2017, 04:56:47 PM by Minty95 »
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Offline Eddy

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Re: Avast detecting viruses in clean PDF's (False-Positive)
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2017, 05:05:21 PM »
Did you run scans on those websites to see if they are really clean and not blacklisted somewhere ?
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Re: Avast detecting viruses in clean PDF's (False-Positive)
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2017, 05:18:40 PM »
if the message from avast say > PDF.UrlMal-inf [Trj]   it means they containe clickable blacklisted URL(s)

you may post the URLs here for check

or report  >  https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=14433.msg1289438#msg1289438


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The links within the PDF's are to legitimate/clean webpages.
Clean today can be hacked tomorrow, and there are many reasons for blacklisting, it does not have to be infected







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