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What in all actually is this PDF attachment doing with the newsletter?

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I'm fairly confident that this also came from Stack Exchange, so would someone care to enlighten me as to what's going on? I admit I'm rusty at reading mail headers, but the sources seem to line up just fine.

Delivered-To: --REDACTED--
Received: by 10.229.68.6 with SMTP id t6csp224071qci;
        Fri, 20 Mar 2015 12:28:47 -0700 (PDT)
X-Received: by 10.55.31.97 with SMTP id f94mr119580342qkf.10.1426879727323;
        Fri, 20 Mar 2015 12:28:47 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from mx-out.stackexchange.com (mx-out.stackexchange.com. [198.252.206.125])
        by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i90si5136899qge.83.2015.03.20.12.28.46
        for <--REDACTED-->
        (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128);
        Fri, 20 Mar 2015 12:28:47 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of [email protected] designates 198.252.206.125 as permitted sender) client-ip=198.252.206.125;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com;
       spf=pass (google.com: domain of [email protected] designates 198.252.206.125 as permitted sender) [email protected];
       dkim=pass [email protected]
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=stackexchange.com; s=dk;
    h=Content-Type:Message-ID:Date:Subject:Reply-To:To:From:MIME-Version; bh=1OWPTURI/S9xuD+By0vS6qm84rNbZTEnVTBe0n3jV2Q=;
    b=VEwIjIH/yuaj1DiAJMIuXOs8vPo1fhJOHhM7v9IWtvRozVyDnMzZBeFVsaAiUDSmsMrXb8sH3X0TU2a94KkuzByGyong8s4pRn6CridgSwOJuQ1OLhN/zSNiSu00rPENBxFhmiABN0PNx8m6S8OZHwMMPob6SzQUm5IK1JsjFxY=;
Received: from [10.7.2.15] (helo=[10.7.2.101])
    by mx-out.stackexchange.com with esmtp (Exim 4.72)
    (envelope-from <[email protected]>)
    id 1YZ0VC-0006l0-SY
    for --REDACTED--; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 17:14:30 +0000
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: MailBee.NET 7.0.4.334
From: "Stack Exchange" <[email protected]>
To: --REDACTED--
Reply-To: [email protected]
Subject: Super User Weekly Newsletter - Friday, March 20, 2015
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 17:14:30 +0000
Message-ID: <2.9e47a33dae2ecd6e7599@NY-WEB01>
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
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    haha, wat​​​​​​
    – Alexis King
    Commented Mar 20, 2015 at 19:42
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    Sighh, just fill in the paperwork...don't ask where it is for...please?
    – rene Mod
    Commented Mar 20, 2015 at 19:57
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    @rene: As interesting as that may be, I can't deduct asdasd in...whatever currency that is from my bank account right now. I mean, I am going on a business trip soon, so I've gotta keep a bit of cash in the bank for souvenirs...
    – Makoto
    Commented Mar 20, 2015 at 19:58
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    This appears to be an XY problem, and you are asking the wrong question. What you should be asking is, "What the dues is what the deese how the doesn't doesn't dues?". Please show us how you determined that the doesn't doesn't dues, and what you have deesed to determine does does (or doesn't) the dues. We're not here to do your work for you.
    – Jason C
    Commented Mar 20, 2015 at 20:00
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    I got a feeling this wasn't really supposed to reach production and be sent.
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Mar 20, 2015 at 20:14

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The PDF in question is linked to from this question in the form of a drive.google.com link. Judging by the sample newsletter, the question was included in the newsletter you received.

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Gmail autodetects Google Drive links, and adds them as friendly attachments*.. which causes crazy in this particular, albeit pretty rare, instance.

* You can test this by including the link https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6HXMKHljcfYV1d5Yl9YNzd4TWM/view?usp=sharing, and sending it in an email to yourself, like I did

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    lol, so brilliant!
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Mar 20, 2015 at 20:24
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    Nice work tracking this one down. What a hilariously bizarre occurrence.
    – hairboat StaffMod
    Commented Mar 20, 2015 at 20:52
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    Darn it Inbox...Thanks for the answer. Strangely enough it did this with a newsletter that had a YouTube link, but it didn't register with me that it was GMail/Inbox being overzealous with its visibility.
    – Makoto
    Commented Mar 20, 2015 at 20:56
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    Good job, Google.
    – user1228
    Commented Mar 20, 2015 at 20:57
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    Google is evil.
    – bjb568
    Commented Mar 20, 2015 at 21:35

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