Subject “img_####.pdf”, multiple senders

This email below has been confirmed as malicious or fraudulent by the Information Security department. If you have received this phishing email, do not open any attachments or follow the link(s) in the message; simply delete the email.

The University is currently receiving phishing messages from random senders with the subject line beginning with “img_” (both upper- and lower-case) followed by four random numbers and “.pdf”.  The messages contain infected attachments with the same name as the subject line.

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