Attackers Exploiting New Acrobat/Reader Flaw — Krebs on Security

And earlier, and that there are reports that this critical vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild. The company says its in the process of evaluating the schedule for an update to plug the security hole.

Meanwhile, an evil PDF file going around that leverages the new exploit currently is detected only by about 25 percent of the anti-virus programs out there (the Virustotal scan results from today are here , and yes it’s a safe PDF).

Adobe’s advisory doesn’t discuss possible mitigating factors, although turning off Javascript in Reader is always a good first step. Acrobat JavaScript can be disabled using the Preferences menu (

How about pestering Adobe for stripping out all of the scripting and multimedia garbage out of PDF (which tends to be responsible for the majority of security defects/vulnerabilities) and creating a Secure Document Format instead?

This would consist of the absolute minimum subset of Postscript...

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