With contributions from Manoj Venugopalan, Senior Malware Analyst, Symantec

Introduction
A new day and a new zero day PDF exploit used in a Targeted attack which our Skeptic heuristic engine stopped. This one exploits a vulnerability in the 3D engine in Adobe Reader (CVE-2011-2462 http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/a...) which is often used to display a 3D wire mesh object that you can rotate and view from all angles in real time. An architect might use it to mock up a plan for a building that the customer can view from within the PDF, very cool. However, the more functions you add to your software, the more chance there is to exploit the format.

Details
The targeted attack against Adobe Reader 9.4.6 on Windows was sent in 5 emails originally on the...