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Борис Бойко
Борис Бойко

Reputation: 27

What do the symbols mean in the second line

The teacher posed the following problem: there is some pdf; open it in wordpad (as a variant), look at the encoding:

 % PDF-1.3 
 %·ѕ­Є

Question: What do the symbols mean in the second line and is there some vulnerability in these codes?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 98

Answers (1)

Max Wyss
Max Wyss

Reputation: 3615

These four characters have no specific meaning. They were introduced in order to attempt to make sure that the file is treated as binary, and not as text.

Upvotes: 2

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