Hello Greg,

Thursday, June 28, 2007, 10:20:04 AM, you wrote:

> What is with all the .pdf attachments in spam?  I haven't noticed 
> this trend previously.  Are they infected or what is the scheme?

Blackhats are now embedding their randomized image-spam images (pump &
dump, for example) into pdfs to make them more difficult to filter.

That's it :-)

_M


-- 
Pete McNeil
Chief Scientist,
Arm Research Labs, LLC.


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