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Adobe Reader for Android addJavascriptInterface Exploit

Disclosed
Apr 13, 2014
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

Adobe Reader versions less than 11.2.0 exposes insecure native
interfaces to untrusted javascript in a PDF. This module embeds the browser
exploit from android/webview_addjavascriptinterface into a PDF to get a
command shell on vulnerable versions of Reader.

Authors

Yorick Koster
joev [email protected]

Platform

Android

Architectures

armle, mipsle, x86

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


msf > use exploit/android/fileformat/adobe_reader_pdf_js_interface
msf exploit(adobe_reader_pdf_js_interface) > show targets
...targets...
msf exploit(adobe_reader_pdf_js_interface) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(adobe_reader_pdf_js_interface) > show options
...show and set options...
msf exploit(adobe_reader_pdf_js_interface) > exploit

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