Malicious PDFs purportedly from the UNI President

Other universities are reporting a new phishing effort that starts with an email message from the university president containing a malicious PDF.  The PDF has a link that goes to a fictitious "Microsoft Reader" that requires credentials to access.  In our case, the credentials would be CatID of course.

Subject:  [ACTION REQUIRED] <university> Revised and Updated Business Integrity & Policy Guidelines For All Employees

Please forward any examples of this or similar messages to security@uni.edu and phishing@uni.edu

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