Who ordered spam? New trick in PDF malware uncovered

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Jack

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Over the past month SophosLabs has been monitoring a particular spam campaign with attached PDF malware (Troj/PDFJs-RD, Troj/PDFJs-RE and Troj/PDFEx-EK).

The spammed-out emails had message bodies like the following:

Guten Tag, XXX XXXXXXXX,

Wir danken Ihnen fur Ihre Bestellung und teilen Ihnen mit, dass Ihre Bestellung in Arbeit genommen ist und moglichst schnell abgeschickt wird. Die Nummer Ihrer Bestellung ist 974838-387291. Die Lieferzeit betragt ca. 2=855 Tage. Bitte merken Sie sich, dass wir in den meisten Fallen bestrebt sind, Ihnen Ihre Bestellung so schnell wie moglich zuzustellen.
Sie konnen sich auch jederzeit im Ihrem Account auf unserer Website einloggen und den Stand der Bestellung uberprufen.

Wenn Sie noch Fragen haben, schreiben Sie uns per E-Mail support@purelygadgets.com .
Sobald Ihre Bestellung abgeschickt ist, werden wir Sie uber ihre Beforderung bis zum Lieferzeitpunkt informieren.

Wir mochten uns noch einmal fur Ihre Bestellung bedanken und werden froh sein, Sie unter unseren Stammkunden zu sehen.
Informationen uber Zahlung und Zustellung sind in der zugefugten Datei zu sehen.

Mit freundschaftlichen Gruben
Luci Smith


and

Thank you for ordering from Puremobile Inc.

This message is to inform you that your order has been received and is currently being processed.

Your order reference is 123456789.
You will need this in all correspondence.
This receipt is NOT proof of purchase.
We will send a printed invoice by mail to your billing address.

You have chosen to pay by credit card.
Your card will be charged for the amount of 1234.00 USD and "Puremobile Inc." will appear next to the charge on your statement.
Your purchase information appears below in the file.

Puremobile Inc


Attached to these messages were PDFs that have names like "Order_123456789.pdf" or "OrderN25031176.pdf". When run under Adobe 8.1.1 or Adobe 9.3 they would connect to a remote site and download more malware (often Spyeye, ZBot or FakeAV).

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MrXidus

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Well ain't I glad I don't have any PDF reader installed, I use web reader to open PDF's in a Sandbox.

But there will be many more exploits to come.
 

McLovin

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well...i better watch out....i have a pdf reader installed...
 
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