Goodbye picture spam, hello PDF spam

Hi malware fighters,

The picture spam hype is over, spammers are resorting now more and more to PDF files. Also embedded URL spoofs are favorite lately. For a full oversight, read this report:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/reference/Symantec_Spam_Report_-_July_2007.pdf

polonus

P.S. No spam to-day, rather have a hotdog!

I got a Spam email yesterday that just comprised of a pdf attachment not text or html content, Mailwasher picked it up as spam, but I wanted to check it out as I too felt this could be a new vector.

Saved the attachment, scanned by avast and VT no detections the contents of the pdf was basically an image (with a general spam text message saved as an image) and no embedded links. As a matter of fact it was such a poor spam there was no url in the image text a real plonker.