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The MiniDuke Mystery: PDF 0-day Government Spy Assembler 0x29A Micro Backdoor

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Vulnerabilities mentioned

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2013-0640
Memory Corruption RCE in Adobe Reader and Acrobat (acroform.dll)
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3 min read at securelist.com

On Feb 12th 2013, FireEye announced the discovery of an Adobe Reader 0-day exploit which is used to drop a previously unknown, advanced piece of malware. We called this new malware ? ItaDuke because it reminded us of Duqu and because of the ancient Italian comments in the shellcode copied from Dante Alighieri-s ?

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