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What is Document Malware? Document Malware is a type of malicious code embedded within documents. In other words, hackers take advantage of vulnerabilities in applications that read or allow editing of documents, like Microsoft Office or Adobe Acrobat. Hackers exploit these vulnerabilities by including malware code within documents that infects a computer once these documents […]