{"id":499,"date":"2024-04-05T11:18:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T11:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/04\/05\/from-pdfs-to-payload-bogus-adobe-acrobat-reader-installers-distribute-byakugan-malware\/"},"modified":"2024-04-05T11:18:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T11:18:09","slug":"from-pdfs-to-payload-bogus-adobe-acrobat-reader-installers-distribute-byakugan-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/04\/05\/from-pdfs-to-payload-bogus-adobe-acrobat-reader-installers-distribute-byakugan-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"From PDFs to Payload: Bogus Adobe Acrobat Reader Installers Distribute Byakugan Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bBogus installers for Adobe Acrobat Reader are being used to\u00a0distribute\u00a0a new multi-functional malware dubbed\u00a0Byakugan.<br \/>\nThe starting point of the attack is a PDF file written in Portuguese that, when opened, shows a blurred image and asks the victim to click on a link to download the Reader application to view the content.<br \/>\nAccording to Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, clicking the URL\u00a0Bogus installers for Adobe Acrobat Reader are being used to\u00a0distribute\u00a0a new multi-functional malware dubbed\u00a0Byakugan.<br \/>\nThe starting point of the attack is a PDF file written in Portuguese that, when opened, shows a blurred image and asks the victim to click on a link to download the Reader application to view the content.<br \/>\nAccording to Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, clicking the URL\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bBogus installers for Adobe Acrobat Reader are being used to\u00a0distribute\u00a0a new multi-functional malware dubbed\u00a0Byakugan. The starting point of the attack is a PDF file written in Portuguese that, when opened, shows a blurred image and asks the victim to click on a link to download the Reader application to view the content. According to Fortinet&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/04\/05\/from-pdfs-to-payload-bogus-adobe-acrobat-reader-installers-distribute-byakugan-malware\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From PDFs to Payload: Bogus Adobe Acrobat Reader Installers Distribute Byakugan Malware<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}