Adobe Reader JavaScript Blacklist Framework

The Adobe Reader and Acrobat JavaScript Blacklist Framework provides customers granular control over the execution of specific JavaScript API calls. The purpose of the Framework is to allow Adobe to protect customers against attacks that target a specific JavaScript API call, like the one referenced in Security Advisory APSA09-07.

In the video below, Didier Stevans shows a demo of the framework, where he disables the Util.Printf function. The full blog post is available here.

Vivek Ramachandran is a security evangelist and has been working in computer security related fields for the past 7 years. In 2007, Vivek spoke at world renowned conferences Defcon (WEP Cloaking Exposed) and Toorcon (The Caffe Latte Attack). The discovery of the Caffe Latte Attack was covered by CBS5 news, BBC online, Network World etc news agencies.In 2006, Vivek was announced as one of winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among 65,000 participants. He has also been a recipient of a Team Achievement at Cisco Systems for his work on 802.1x and Port Security modules on the Catalyst 6500 switches. Currently he spends all of his time maintaining Security- Freak.Net , SecurityTube.Net and is the co-founder of Axonize. Vivek, is a Bachelor in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.You can contact him at vivek[at]securitytube.net