Our engineers over at the AV Labs have spotted recently a deluge of spam about a “traffic ticket” that purports to come from a state department in New York. The said
spam has a compressed file attachment that, once extracted, contains a file that bears the icon of a normal Adobe .PDF file. Mimicing file icons, of course, is a
common tactic used by criminals to appease any doubts or worries from recipients of such emails, which are actually malicious in nature.

“The malware appears to be sent from a botnet of unknown origin.” says GFI Spyware Researcher Adam Thomas.

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