Adobe Acrobat/Reader 0-day in Wild, Adobe Issues Advisory
We just received word that there is a report of a 0-day exploit for Adobe Acrobat/Reader being exploited in the wild. Secunia has a brief write up and here is the link to the original advisory. The exploit was discovered in a phishing attempt with the subject of "David Leadbetter's One Point Lesson". Adobe has issued an advisory and references CVE-2010-2883 (which just shows as reserved at this point with no details). It does effect the latest version of Acrobat/Reader and Adobe is investigation a patch. More to come on that.
The exploit in the wild I'm aware of causes a crash in Acrobat/Reader and then tries to open a decoy file. So the good news is that, as of right now, it's a "loud exploit". Early VirusTotal scans also had partial coverage under various forms of "Suspicious PDF" categories. At this point, standard precautions apply (don't open PDFs from strangers) and this can probably only really be used in a phishing style scenario. Will update this dairy as needed with developments.
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John Bambenek
bambenek at gmail /dot/ com
Comments
John
Sep 8th 2010
1 decade ago
Should that not be Secure Portable Document Format (SPDF)? Security is paramount but don't forget the platform/device independency.
Chris
Sep 8th 2010
1 decade ago
Rob
Sep 8th 2010
1 decade ago
BrundleFly
Sep 9th 2010
1 decade ago
I switched my users to it without issue.
pwobbe
Sep 9th 2010
1 decade ago
The Metasploit blog has an excellent technical write-up today: http://blog.metasploit.com/2010/09/return-of-unpublished-adobe.html
Andrew from Vancouver
Sep 9th 2010
1 decade ago
Subject: Here you have
Body:
Hello:
This is The Document I told you about,you can find it
Here.http: / / www . share d ocuments . com / library / PDF_Document21 . 025542010 . pdf
Please check it and reply as soon as possible.
Cheers,
(Not the the domain name has only one D in it.)
SB
SB
Sep 9th 2010
1 decade ago
http: // members . multimania . co . uk / yahoophoto / PDF_Document21_025542010_pdf . scr
SB
SB
Sep 9th 2010
1 decade ago
JJ
Sep 9th 2010
1 decade ago
DT
Sep 9th 2010
1 decade ago