A couple of days ago there was some noise around some nasty payloads being delivered through .PDF’s. So just in-case you thought that opening a PDF file was safe, take a read of the blog post that Z0nbi put together on the actions of a spam PDF that he received :

” Today I was trawling through my Gmail spam folder like a good little mail monkey when I came across a rather strange bit of spam. Usually you just get rubbish about making your manhood the size of a small country or the latest twitter/gmail support/facebook AV malware. Most of the time I just ignore the messages due to them being very boring and not really worth a coffee and a few hours in Terminal…Today’s message was a little different. It was a very simple email with the subject line “New Resume” and one line in the body of the email saying “Please review my CV, Thank You!“. So, seeing as I have NO idea who the sender was and that there are no issues with the PDF format that I know of, I saved the PDF document to my desktop as I had a virtual machine I just knew the PDF would love immediately. ”

Read the rest of his great post here

Tags: PDF, Privacy, Security

Categories: Privacy, Security

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