How to convert untrusted Document to trusted? what about CDR (Content Disarm & Reconstruction)? how to get CDR as part of Microsoft Office 365?

Question

Does Microsoft, which is my preferred Vendor, have a solution similar to CDR which is described in Wikipedia as follows:

CDR removes all malicious Content.

I asked because of my understanding as follows:

1. Pictures are considered Active Content
2. Microsoft Application Guard is

• not enabled as default

Increase Computer load.

only available on certain CPUs

limit on what I can do to a PDF

Please correct me if wrong, cleaning a document free me to use it as trusted document.

BACKGROUND

Quote from MS Community "Microsoft Edge. The best you can do is disable JavaScript execution while you view PDF files within Edge"

Pictures carry security risk

What Are Media File Formats? (lifewire.com)

Active content types in your files - Microsoft Support

Security risk of modifying PDFs from Internet

risk of PDF which is actually executable??

Answer 1

Hello there,

I suppose some third party application and api when integrated with office 365 does the same .

A trusted location in Microsoft Office is a folder that contains files you trust to be safe.

You should use a trusted location to store a file when you don't want that file to be checked by the Trust Center, or if you don't want it to open in Protected View. Especially files with macros, data connections, or ActiveX controls (what we call active content).

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/add-remove-or-change-a-trusted-location-in-microsoft-office-7ee1cdc2-483e-4cbb-bcb3-4e7c67147fb4#:~:text=a%20trusted%20location-,In%20your%20Office%20app%2C%20click%20File%20%3E%20Options.,want%2C%20and%20then%20click%20OK.

Hope this resolves your Query !!

--If the reply is helpful, please Upvote and Accept it as an answer--