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For the last two weeks we have been noticing significant increase of PDF exploit attacks being distributed by email with an attached PDF document posing as a fake invoice.However, closer examination of the PDF file has shown that the exploit uses a two-year-old classified as CVE-2010-0188. Why would anyone use so old an exploit? Well […]

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In September, our friends at Sophos wrote about a fake BBC website offering up the “chance” to work from home for predictably large sums of money. No more than a day later, we were covering fake BBC video posts targeting Facebook users. Today we’re looking at a fake BBC URL which drops the end-user onto […]

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The exploit Used environment: Windows XP SP3 with Adobe Acrobat 9.4.6 This U3D memory corruption vulnerability (CVE-2011-2462) could cause an application crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. After the malicious PDF file is opened, new process pretty.exe (this file is changed all the times.) is created. We can […]

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