"Traditionally, PDFs were thought of as a safe file format and during the Office macro infestation of the late 90s users got used to trusting PDFs. What went wrong with this safe format? In the last three years malicious PDFs have jumped to promenence becoming one of the standard methods for drive-by infections. Using real world case studies the presentation will discuss the pitfalls not only of the PDF format but of PDF readers. The presentation will also begin to answer the question of whether Adobe X is the solution and if so why do we still seeing PDF malware?"