full-disclosure - email attack vector just got wider

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Message-ID: <200504252202.j3PM2ub9002905@pisa.maths.usyd.edu.au>
Date: Tue Apr 26 00:55:24 2005
From: psz at maths.usyd.edu.au (psz@...hs.usyd.edu.au)
Subject: email attack vector just got wider

>> It seems most people I know haven't noticed that the new version of
>> Adobe Acrobat (7) now allows for embedded/attached documents.
> 
> Are there any samples around? Or any documentation of the format?

  * Adobe Acrobat Security Issues: The Open File Action and File Attachment
    Annotations
    http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/pdfs/OpenFilenAttach.pdf

  * Adobe PDF File Attachment Virus Update
    http://www.adobe.com/support/salesdocs/1006236.html

Some more blurb in
http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/securepc.html#Acrobatx .

Cheers,

Paul Szabo   psz@...hs.usyd.edu.au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia