Is PDF Converter safe?

Medium risk

PDF Converter sends searches typed on its new-tab page to find.digital-marketing-ads.com.

The extension replaces the Chrome new-tab page with its own search form. When a user submits a query with the default Bing-labeled option, it navigates to find.digital-marketing-ads.com with the typed search text in the URL; the Yahoo branch uses yssads.ddc.com.

Triplex Mediav1.4Chrome Web Store
45Risk
Who publishes it

Triplex Media - 1 other listing from the same operator, 1 of them carrying a finding

What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.

Publisher
Triplex Media

Same store account

1 other listing published from this account, 2k+ users between them. 1 of them carries a finding.

Office Tools2k+Medium

AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.

Publishers can request a review.

Findings

New-tab searches are sent to affiliate search endpoint

When you use PDF Converter's new-tab search box, the extension redirects the typed search query to find.digital-marketing-ads.com.

The request includes your form input as the search term for an affiliate search results page.

Severity
Medium unwanted
Type
Unexpected
CWE
CWE-359
Source
Dynamic sandbox
What actually happens
You did this

The user submits a search from the extension's new-tab page.

The extension did this

The extension redirects the typed search query to find.digital-marketing-ads.com.

Captured request
GEThttps://find.digital-marketing-ads.com/results.aspx
Fields in the request
  • Search query
    weather tomorrow (illustrative)

    The text you type into the new-tab search box is sent as the query for the results page.

What it can do

Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.4. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.

  • Read and change your data on search101.info

    *://search101.info/*

  • Read and change your data on d2q2b2smtdn85x.cloudfront.net

    https://d2q2b2smtdn85x.cloudfront.net/stats/v2/ntext/install/*

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed PDF Converter contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.

  • find.digital-marketing-ads.com

    PDF Converter sends data to find.digital-marketing-ads.com. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.

  • yssads.ddc.com

    PDF Converter sends data to yssads.ddc.com. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.

Updated 30 September 2026mpcoopflcfldoffkbjhpnhcpnagfcmbg