The economics of malware

Interesting read about the driving force behind malware writing and distribution.
Whilst we are on the topic of malware... malicious PDF installs backdoor on victim’s system and dials home to Singapore hosted server*. Nice!!!
Anyone wants to call Alan to give him the bad news?

* First came across this cool story on werew01f's blog.
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