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Adobe Acrobat Reader Shuns Security Products Due to Compatibility Issues

June 22, 2022

The behavior, which is similar to that of suspicious or malicious applications, is related to Acrobat Reader’s use of the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF), which has some incompatibility issues with certain security products.

Minerva says it has observed a gradual uptick in this behavior starting March 2022, when libcef.dll – a CEF DLL employed by numerous applications – was updated. The library contains a list of DLLs that are known to cause conflicts, and which are blocked.

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