Improve malicious PDF detection
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	Nemo_bis
	Jul 2 2012, 8:08 AM

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Looks like we have several files with trojans etc. being uploaded. I don't know if this is expected or not.

See some examples here: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/xmldatadumps-l/2012-July/000567.html (currently being deleted, see some dates on https://fj.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Log/Erafosu ).

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Nemo_bis created this task.Jul 2 2012, 8:08 AM

Nemo, thanks for opening this.

We currently are not scanning pdfs. We may start doing that, or may implement this as a bot to scan and flag suspicious pdfs after they have been uploaded.

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