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New Mac OS X Trojan Hides Inside PDFs
Trailrunner7 contributes this snippet from ThreatPost: "Malware that targets Mac OS X isn't anywhere near catching up to Windows-based malware in terms of volume and variety, but it seems that OS X malware may be adopting some of the more successful tactics that Windows viruses have been using to trick users. Researchers have come across a sample of an OS X-based Trojan that disguises itself as a PDF file, a technique that's been in favor among Windows malware authors for several years now."
It's just a trojan with a PDF icon.
And it will be nerfed as soon as it's added to the OS X XProtect filter, if it hasn't already.
Trojans are nothing new, giving them fake icons is nothing new, even Mac trojans are nothing new. News this ain't.
Do much being .... What, exactly? Access your browser to capture your passwords? Participate in a DDOS? Send spam email? Propagate itself?
Don't need admin to do any of that...
This isn't a virus. It doesn't propagate; it's not even capable of communicating with its server once installed, so it's another one of these annual proof-of-concept social engineering attacks that anonymous Apple-haters latch onto and then promptly forget about a day later.