{"id":642200,"date":"2013-02-13T12:30:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T17:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=216582"},"modified":"2013-02-13T12:30:27","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T17:30:27","slug":"adobe-pdf-reader-hit-by-zero-day-exploit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/642200","title":{"rendered":"Adobe PDF Reader Hit By Zero-Day Exploit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adobe Flash<\/a> was recently hit by two zero-day exploits that the company quickly worked to patch up. Now one of Adobe’s other popular Web plugins – Reader – has been hit. <\/p>\n

Computer security company FireEye<\/a> found yesterday that Adobe Reader was hit by a zero-day exploit. The exploit is currently found in the latest Adobe Reader versions – 9.5.3, 10.1.5 and 11.0.1. Here’s what the exploit does: <\/p>\n

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Upon successful exploitation, it will drop two DLLs. The first DLL shows a fake error message and opens a decoy PDF document, which is usually common in targeted attacks. The second DLL in turn drops the callback component, which talks to a remote domain.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

FireEye has alerted Adobe to the threat, and the company is now investigating the report<\/a>. It will have an update on what actions it plans to take soon. <\/p>\n

Instead of waiting for Adobe to act, you should probably switch to a different PDF reader. There are numerous free, open-source PDF readers<\/a> that do a marvelous job without relying on a Web browser plugin that can be exploited to insert malware onto your system. <\/p>\n

The Firefox 19 Beta is also testing out a new native HTML5 PDF reader<\/a> plugin that would be far more secure than traditional plugins. It’s only a matter of time before the HTML5-friendly Chrome follows suit with its own. <\/p>\n

[h\/t: The Next Web<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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