Here at Ars, we're suckers for stories about hackers getting Doom running ... Adobe Acrobat included some robust support for JavaScript in the PDF file format. That JS coding support—which ...

The flaw, first revealed at a hacker conference in Germany ... a hostile Web site that links to the bank's PDF file. Included is malicious JavaScript code that will run on the unsuspecting user's ...

Disabling JavaScript will not prevent this (I don’t use JavaScript in my PoC PDF), and patching Adobe Reader isn’t possible (I’m not exploiting a vulnerability, just being creative with the ...