Spam PDFs
BevK July 3rd, 2007
My husband noticed that he’d gotten what was obviously spam in his inbox, but this time with a new feature. There was a pdf document attached. I found 4 of the same kind of emails in my EHO editor inbox today. Here’s the scoop:
Security experts are warning email recipients of an emerging spam technique that for the first time is attaching PDF files to emails in a new attempt to dodge spam filters.
According to email security vendor Marshal spammers are switching their technique from image spam to PDF attached spam. After struggling to find ways to fool spam filters they are now figuring out new ways of getting their messages across.
“The fact that the message contains a PDF attachment which is a very common business-related file format is designed to lower the recipient’s suspicions that the message might be spam,” said Bradley Anstis director of product management at Marshal.
PDF files can pose other problems, which the article explains. Read the full article here.
As always, don’t open or click on links that are sent to you from someone you don’t know and keep your antivirus software up-to-date.
