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Pedro Bueno is a Security and Malware Researcher at McAfee Labs for almost 5 years. He also has a volunteer job at the SANS ...

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McAfee Labs :

Goodbye PDF Spam…welcome FDF!

Friday, August 10, 2007 at 9:45am by Pedro Bueno
Pedro Bueno

Yes, say goodbye to the PDF spam wave and welcome the FDF stock spam wave! :)
And yes, you will be able to open it with the regular Acrobat reader! Maybe to bypass filters based on file extension, the spam now is using the file extension .FDF, which is the format used by the data exported from a pdf form fields. The new spam will usually follow the format: -UserEmail.FDF, like GlobalTrading-pbueno.fdf .

Yes…something new to play with… :)

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Comments (2)

  • hello555 May 19, 2008 3:10AM

    pdf format will be there for a long time…

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  • Dan August 13, 2007 5:24AM

    Question is, how do you prevent these FDF spams from getting through Spamkiller (ePO)?

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