Pdf with Malicious Spam

F-Secure has reported a spam run pushing a PDF exploit. They have detected this threat as Exploit.PDF-Dropper.Gen with their Internet Security 2010.

The PDF’s MD5 is cff871a36828866de1f42574be016bb8. If allowed to run, the exploit will drop an alureon/dnschanger trojan.

See F-Secure for more

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2 Comments

2 Comments

  • gopinathan says:

    what is meant by running a md5 ?

  • Mugil says:

    Hello Gopi, I have specified the term ‘run’ in the mean ‘to open the pdf document’ not that running the MD5. MD5 is a hash which is used for providing security for documents.It can’t be run. Thanks for your comment Gopinath.

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