Acrobat/Reader and PADES (Digital Signatures)

I've read the document that James King of Adobe published and made the configurations to make Acrobat PADES compliant. However when I sign a document and inspect the generated CMS package inside the PDF, the signing-certificate value in Signed-Attributes is not present. So I'm assuming that the signature is still not PADES-BES compliant. Is there anything I can do to make Acrobat put a PADES-BES signature?
Also, I for verification, I made a test. I've externally signed a PDF with a CMS packet that has signing-certificate signed attribute. The signature has been validated in Acrobat. After that, I've intentionally put a random value as signing-certificate value. When I opened that PDF, it still validated fine in Acrobat. Therefore I understand that Acrobat doesn't do full PADES-BES validation. Is this right? Is there a configuration that can make Acrobat make a full PADES validation?
I'm using 9.1.3 version of Acrobat under Windows.
Thanks in advance

Hi Stewen,
Thank you for your answer.
I've took the value of Contents dictionary value and inspected it with an ASN.1 viewer. You're right, the signing certificate is on the PKCS7 (CMS) package. However, PaDES doesn't suffice with that. It requires a signing-certificate value in the signed attributes inside SignerInfo sequence in CMS. Also, the subfilter value should say ETSI.CAdES.detached as mandated in ETSI TS 102 708-3 V.1.1.1 page 8.
e) The signature dictionary shall contain a value of ETSI.CAdES.detached for the key SubFilter.
Since we are mandated by EU guidelines our customers require ETSI compatibility.
Thanks for you help

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