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Spammers dump images, switch to PDF files
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2007-07-18

Foiled by increasingly accurate corporate spam filters, spammers have dumped pictures for PDFs in their bulk e-mailings, according to the latest data from security firms.

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Spammers dump images, switch to PDF files 2007-07-19
Anonymous
So what's next here.

In recent history we've had:

character insertion based text obfuscation

HTML tiny-or-invisble color character insertion

HTML table-based text scrambling

image-based

tiled multi-image based

pdf based..

So what's next.. Adoption of fast-flux web-linking from viruses by...

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