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| Re: spearphishing | 2022-07-10T17:34:19-07:00 | https://xeiaso.net/blog/spearphishing | Spearphishing: it can happen to you too | BlogPosting | Xe Iaso | https://xeiaso.net/ |
I think that using a dedicated air-gapped machine just for opening PDFs is a bit much if you don't rely on assistive technologies to read PDFs. A much less nuclear option: Qubes OS has an excellent PDF converter to convert PDFs to safe bitmaps, and back into PDFs. The results are completely inaccessible, so I wouldn't recommend sharing the final artifacts; however, this approach is fine for personal use.
The Qubes blog covers this in more detail: {{}}{{}}, by {{}}{{}}
SaaS can actually be helpful when it comes to processing potentially-malicious files. In high school, we had to make heavy use of Google Drive. One approach that I used to use was to open a PDF with Google Docs and export the resulting Google Doc.