Adobe Acrobat Security Advisory: Targeted PDF Exploits Threat

Adobe Acrobat Advisory: Targeted PDF Exploits and Cyber Threats

Apr 25, 2008 •

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Dating back to the end of February, we have been tracking test runs of malicious PDF messages to very specific targets. These PDF files exploit the recent vulnerability CVE-2008-0655.
Ever since the end of March, beginning of April, the amount of samples seen in the wild has significantly increased. Interestingly enough, there is almost no "public, widespread" exploitation. All reports are limited to very specific, targeted attacks. However, due to the wide scope of these attacks, and the number of targets we know of, we feel a diary entry was in order.

Remember the old saying of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"? It appears this exploit seems very focused on targeting not only the vulnerability mentioned in the article, but the very facet of sticking with stable software. Nothing is apparently "broken" about Adobe Acrobat v7, however as you can tell by the diary entry, updating is the key to preventing "it ain't broke" software from having to be "fixed" due to exploits such as this one.

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