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Published Jan 06, 2011 | Updated Sep 15, 2017

Exploit:Win32/Pdfjsc.KG

Detected by Microsoft Defender Antivirus

Aliases: Exploit.JS.Pdfka.daf (Kaspersky) PDF/Exploit.QK (Norman) Exploit_c.SRH (AVG) EXP/Pidief.PB.2 (Avira) Exploit.PDF-Payload.Gen (BitDefender) Exploit.JS.Pdfka (Ikarus) Suspicious-PDF.gen (McAfee) Exploit/PDF.Gen.B (Panda) Troj/PDFJs-PH (Sophos) Exploit.PDF-JS.Gen (Sunbelt Software) Bloodhound.PDF.21 (Symantec) TROJ_PIDIEF.SMKX (Trend Micro)

Summary

Exploit:Win32/Pdfjsc.KG is the detection for a malicious Portable Document Format (PDF) file that exploits certain vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat and Reader to obfuscate and hide, and subsequently run, malicious JavaScript and shellcode. The shellcode is used to download other malware.
To detect and remove this threat and other malicious software that may be installed on your computer, run a full-system scan with an appropriate, up-to-date, security solution. The following Microsoft products will detect and remove this threat:
 
 
For more information on antivirus software, see http://www.microsoft.com/windows/antivirus-partners/.
Update vulnerable PDF applications
This threat exploits known vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat and Reader. After removing this threat, make sure that you install the updates available from the vendor. You can read more about these vulnerabilities in PDF documents, as well as where to download the software update from the following links:
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