Curious email, Can a PDF be a virus?

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Never had an email like this before, it claims to be from "[email protected]" and says the following:

Today you were out when we tried to deliver!

Please view the invoice attachment, and check the tracking number on our website.

Tomorrow the delivery will be attempted again.

Royal Mail.
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With a PDF attached called: royal_mail_delivery_notice_312317.PDF of 155kb

Obviously im very reluctent to open this, im not expecting anything and i can't imagine royal mail would send a tracking notice via PDF, especially with me not having bought anything to have given them my email address. It's probably a bit daft to even ask really, as tech savvy as i am i've not come accross a PDF virus before hence the question (better to be safe than sorry i guess)
 
The 'royal-mail.com' is a dead giveaway here as their actual address is 'royalmail.com' with no hyphen.

I would not be opening that.
 
Ah never mind, emailed it to my work email, remoted into work, opened it on a PC with sophos on and it picked it up as adware, not sure what the exact name was though, well i guess i'll leave this here as a warning to anyone who gets PDF attachments in there emails!

Diggsy said:
The 'royal-mail.com' is a dead giveaway here as their actual address is 'royalmail.com' with no hyphen.

I would not be opening that.
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Didn't even think to check that! Cheers
 
I think the PDF has an embedded exe file or something that is triggered through a dialog box that you click - in other words delete!
 
I've had similar mails from UPS (apparently) I pick up my mail using my Gmail account a Google always tell me that the mail contains a suspicious attachment (said PDF) and will not transfer it, I then just log into my other web mail service and delete the mail - job done!!
 
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