November 29th, 2009
xanda

I was reading my RSS feed and suddenly I’ve found this PDF sample. We’ve found PDF-JS Obfuscation with this.info.title last week and this time comes another trick. Using hexadecimal in defining filter..
The following line was found in one of the stream
</Length 0000000/Filter/#41#53#43#49#49#38#35#44#65#63#6f#64#65>>
once converted from hex to ascii, here is what i’ve found
</Length 0000000/Filter/ASCII85Decode>>
Yeah.. nothing much, but yes the sample will be passed to Azizan for enhancement of Analyz3r

Nothing much but YES to agree with Didier Stevens with his statement:
PDF + JS = OMG
Yerp.. there is another vulnerability (CVE-2009-3459) in Adobe Reader and Acrobat today (GMT +8) and so far it is still 0 day..
*panic panic* What to do?
- Disable JavaScript support in Adobe Reader and Acrobat
- Enable DEP (for Windows)
- Use NoScript
- Use alternative PDF reader like Foxit, Gnome Document Viewer, yada yada..
- Don’t be a lame by opening unknown PDF attachment