Not quite the scenario described (it wasn't an academic paper), but <a href="https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73317.html" rel="nofollow">https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73317.html is my experience of dealing with a forged PDF. Part of the reason it's rare is that it's actually very hard to do it well!
Are you saying that RightSignature puts the checksum information inside the document and therefore destroys the checksum? What is the thinking behind that?
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