PDF Exploit Invites you to the Nobel Prize

A recent Nobel invitation scam (dated the 7th of November) was initiated by cyber-thugs. The victim receives a spoofed e-mail with an invitation to the Nobel Prize ceremony of Liu Xiaobo that looks like this: “Pretty convincing, isnt it? Pretty convincing” The moment the PDF file disguised as a righteous invitation is opened, it triggers a PDF exploit (detected by BitDefender as Exploit.PDF-TTFGen) in order to decrypt and drop three components.”]

Source: https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/pdf-exploit-invites-you-to-the-nobel-prize-malware-cocktails-on-the-house/