Vulnerability in the PDF documents is a fact and when I look at statistics of infected filed blocked by the antivirus program in the company, there’s a growing number of infected PDF files publicly available on the internet.
Are your PDF files, downloaded from the internet, really free of malware?
How can we persuade that the downloaded PDF documents are not infected and that they don’t hide any scripts inside?
On the webside Malware Tracker they offering free online analyse of pdf files – PDF Examiner, which examines each PDF file seperately for all known vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader/Acrobat, Adobe Flash and Microsoft Windows, which has not been resolved yet.
It can trace any malicious code hidden in the PDF, encrypted content is not the barrier, where many anti-virus programs fail. Time of investigation: a few minutes (depending on file size).
Currently most exploit vulnerabilities of PDF files
CVE-2010-2883 buffer overflow – PDF embedded fonts
CVE-2010-0188 TIFF image with overflow and shellcode
CVE-2009-4324 vulnerability in the doc. media.newplayer
CVE-2009-3459 craftec stream buffer overflow
CVE-2009-0927 collab.geticon
CVE-2008-2992 util.printf javascript buffer overflow
CVE-2008-0655 collab.collectemailinfo buffer overflow
Advice
How to protect from increasingly dangerous PDF files ? Insteade of Adobe Reader use Sumatra PDF Reader.