Wireless News – Fortinet Threatscape Report Shows PDF Exploit Being Circulated
Fortinet, a network security provider and supplier of unified threat management (UTM) solutions, announced its May Threatscape sound showed a new PDF exploit being circulated in high volume through an ongoing spam campaign.
The Company said the vulnerability, first blogged all over by Didier Stevens on March 29, is CVE-2010-1240, and the evil-minded documents now exploiting this are detected by Fortinet as PDF/ Pidief.BV!utilize. Though no patch exists, Adobe has recommended mitigation strategies on its blog. To more remote combat the threat, Fortinet recommends implementing an intrusion prevention and antivirus explication. This vulnerability was ranked second for overall malware activity this month, back only the nefarious Pushdo botnet.
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“What sets PDF/Pidief.BV apart from other PDF threats we are because, is that it requires user interaction,” said Derek Manky, project supervisor, cyber security and threat research, Fortinet. “More specifically, a user needs to click on the ‘open’ button when prompted by a dialog box to inaugurate the infection. This threat is another reason why it’s authoritative for users to carefully read these types of messages when they be known.”
In the case of PDF/Pidief.BV, clicking “open” will pristine execute VBScript and then add a malicious botnet loader binary, what one. compromises the system, according to the Company.
Fortinet is a worldwide provider of network security appliances and a supplier of unified threat management (UTM). Fortinet is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices around the world.
Fortinet:
fortinet.com
May Threatscape report:
fortiguard.com/record/roundup_may_2010.html
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