The tools may also scrape files submitted for conversion for sensitive information, such as Social Security numbers, birthdates, email addresses, passwords or tokens to bypass multi-factor authentication, banking information, and cryptocurrency seed phrases and wallet addresses.
According to a Malwarebytes Labs report on the scam, the following domains have been found to contain malware:
convertitoremp3[.]it (Riskware)
convertscloud[.]com (Phishing)
convertallfiles[.]com (Adware)
primeconvertapp[.]com (Riskware)
Convertpro[.]org (Riskware)
How to convert files safely
When you need to quickly convert from one document type to another, you may be tempted to google "free file converter" and click on whatever comes up—but don't.
Export or File > Save As). Microsoft Office and many PDF editors have this functionality, or you can use Adobe's free tools to convert to and from a PDF, as well as a handful of other document converters available for free.
Remember that when you convert files, you may lose some formatting in the process.
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