Criminals attempt to exploit unpatched hole in Adobe Reader
A report from M86Security describes a PDF document that tries to install the ZeuS bot. When opened, the document tries to save a further PDF document which contains the actual malware. The documents are probably nested in an attempt to trick virus scanners. Interestingly, Reader opens a user dialogue before saving the file, but Foxit automatically saves the file without requesting confirmation. The current version of Foxit at least opens a dialogue when trying to start the bot that is hidden in the PDF
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