This should be more on the shoulders of Adobe to remedy. IMHO
On 7/23/07, Wheeler, Eric <EWheeler2@zebra.com> wrote:
I was trying to think of a way to block this but its rather difficult
when the email + the subject line + the attachment + the attachment
contents are different every time
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From: listbounce@securityfocus.com [mailto:listbounce@securityfocus.com]
On Behalf Of Banyan He
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 9:41 AM
To: WALI
Cc: tony barry; Security Basics Forum
Subject: Re: New Spam Technique
Bad news, that pdf attachment contains the advertisement or the image.
Actually, there is no appliance works on this perfectly. The pdf size
should be big or small.
WALI wrote:
> Read, the nuances of catching pdf spam:
>
> http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsid=9031
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "tony barry" <tony@no-bull.co.nz>
> To: "Security Basics Forum" <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 11:04 PM
> Subject: New Spam Technique
>
>
>> Hi List,
>>
>> We operate several mail servers with catch all accounts and have
noticed
>> a lot of Mailer Daemon 'delivery failed messages mails from genuine
>> sites (mostly German)arriving recently. It would seem the spammers
are
>> sending out e-mails with a PDF attachment and a forged senders
address
>> to bogus recipients at these organizations whose mail server rejects
the
>> message and sends notification to the forged sender. We have opened
one
>> attachment on an isolated machine and it was one of the 'watch these
>> stocks they're going through the roof messages (not exactly sure of
the
>> details as my German is a bit rusty). My concern is that there could
be
>> a 'payload' embedded in the PDF. Is this possible?
>>
>>
>> --
>> The Simple Server Company
>> PO Box 51528 Pakuranga
>> Auckland
>>
>> 021 413642 09 5768552
>>
>> http://www.simpleserverco.com
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