full-disclosure - Re: email attack vector just got wider

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Date: Mon Apr 25 22:13:34 2005
From: michealespinola at gmail.com (Micheal Espinola Jr)
Subject: Re: email attack vector just got wider

Perhaps not "just". My apologies for those that are aware of this, but it 
seems Adobe 6 also had this capability - although many people have been 
unaware of this. I recently upgrade from 5 to 7, so I missed this potential 
issue from the get-go.
 Someone pointed out to me that Symantec does have a bulletin stating that 
by setting your AV to "scan all files" you can detect a virus inside a file 
embedded into a PDF.
 Unfortunately, this does not address the blocking of certain attachments 
outright.

 On 4/25/05, Micheal Espinola Jr <michealespinola@...il.com> wrote: 
> 
> It seems most people I know haven't noticed that the new version of Adobe 
> Acrobat (7) now allows for embedded/attached documents.
>  Since PDF's have generally been considered a safe document format and are 
> typically not blocked by content/attachment scanners, this now opens an 
> email-based attack vector that anti-virus providers [to the best of my 
> knowledge] are not currently addressing. 
>  Many thanks to Adobe for creating another issue for us to deal with, and 
> especially for not having the forethought to coordinate with anti-virus 
> vendors to prepare for assuredly future exploitation of the technology. 
> 
> -- 
> ME2
> 
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> 



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ME2

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