It looks like this is a new kind of malware

Semtiko
7 years ago

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There are perpetrating programs that impair computers directly in various ways. The infection called Trojan.Pidief.X, though, happens to be different. Its objective is to promote other malicious code. Furthermore, its activity involves a great deal of manipulation reminiscent of classic social engineering techniques. The harmful component is camouflaged as a benign PDF file, so users are quite likely to fall for the trickery without suspecting a peril.

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Semtiko
7 years ago

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Trojan.Pidief.X denotes a malicious entity heavily used by cybercriminals to distribute certain types of computer infections. Just to be clear from the get-go, it should be emphasized that this malware does not manifest itself under said name; instead, thats how security suites tend to flag it if detected in a system. The Pidief part is there for a good reason the kernel component of this fraud is a booby-trapped PDF file that appears harmless on the face of it. It may look like a commonplace invoice, job offer or resume, but as soon as an unsuspecting user opens it, an additional object is dropped onto the target PC behind their back. Specifically, the opportunistic infection ends up inside the Temp folder. It is a random-named file with the .docm extension.
This article details http://soft2secure.com/knowledgebase/trojan-pidief-x

SIGKILL [r4v463]
7 years ago

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Maybe you can give the source : http://soft2secure.com/knowledgebase/trojan-pidief-x

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