Again a new way of spreading worms is arrived.
Now they can be in PDF files.
The worm appeared on Tuesday morning and has been analyzed by Bernardo Quinteros, head of the Madrid-based security firm HispaSec Sistemas and Richard M. Smith, chief technical officer of the U.S.-based Privacy Foundation. |
Even considering that it is a just-created laboratory virus, this is like a seed of an upcoming deluge of viruses of the same kind in PDF files, a format considered safe up to now," said Quinteros.
The virus is called "Outlook.pdf," and it is considered "experimental," with a small capacity to infect, Quinteros said.
In order to spread itself, the virus uses Adobe Acrobat and functions of Microsoft's Outlook that have never been used before. According to both researchers, the worm uses Outlook to send itself hidden in a PDF file. When opened using Acrobat, the file launches a game that prompts the user to click on the image of a peach. After the user clicks on the image, a Visual Basic script is run and the virus gets activated, they said.
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Source: Cnn
