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"SafeDocs - towards a more secure future" at PDF Days Online 2021

Presented at PDF Days Europe 2021
( 2021, Sep )

SafeDocs – towards a more secure future

Securing file formats through provable techniques

Excerpt: This talk will present industry-relevant outcomes from the DARPA-funded “SafeDocs” research program, as well as reviewing future directions. This research is aimed at reducing the attack surface of parsing software, and identifying and removing inherent weaknesses in the file formats, including PDF and its many nested formats. Outcomes include: the “Issue Tracker” corpus comprising 1000s of stressful PDF sample files; the “PDF Observatory”, a cloud-based corpus analysis tool supporting instant q … Read more
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Peter Wyatt is the PDF Association’s CTO and an independent technology consultant with deep file format and parsing expertise. A developer and researcher working on PDF technologies for more than … Read more


Peter Wyatt
PDF Association

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This talk will present industry-relevant outcomes from the DARPA-funded “SafeDocs” research program, as well as reviewing future directions. This research is aimed at reducing the attack surface of parsing software, and identifying and removing inherent weaknesses in the file formats, including PDF and its many nested formats. Outcomes include:

  • the “Issue Tracker” corpus comprising 1000s of stressful PDF sample files;
  • the “PDF Observatory”, a cloud-based corpus analysis tool supporting instant queries across an internet-scale corpus;
  • the specification-derived machine-readable “Arlington PDF Model” definition of all PDF 2.0 DOM objects, >/li>
  • and a reflection of weaknesses, their exploits, and possible solutions with the PDF file format.

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