Re: has someone already written this rule yet?

2006-02-03 Thread hamann . w


Hi,

I never tried something like that, but
- if the visible link looks like an url and
- the actual and visible url's are not related in some way
(ideas: same ip, same netblock, subdomains of same domain)
- or if the actual link looks like two url's concatenated (potential open 
redirector) and the visible link does not
the message will look "suspicious".

Assuming that some senders will create such mails, it would be a good idea to
forward the message to recipient WITH warning markup, and also reject at mta 
level
with a suitable explanation, so SA may not be the best place in the mail chain.

If many sites do that, senders will eventually reconsider whether this is a 
good idea

Wolfgang Hamann

>> 
>> Didn't I just respond about this the other day?
>> 
>> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 05:56:06PM -0700, Steven Manross wrote:
>> > > > href=3D"http://www.whatever.com/secretphishersite/blah?something=3Dblahbl=
>> ah"
>> > >http://www.paypal.com/somethingsecure/this?that=3D1
>> > =20
>> > Or is that even possible? Or is it just expensive? :)
>> 
>> Easily possible, but the rule performs horribly in real-life since it appea=
>> rs
>> in a ton of ham in the generic sense (ABC).  It's all cov=
>> ered
>> in http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=3D4255
>> 







Re: has someone already written this rule yet?

2006-02-02 Thread Theo Van Dinter
Didn't I just respond about this the other day?

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 05:56:06PM -0700, Steven Manross wrote:
>  href="http://www.whatever.com/secretphishersite/blah?something=blahblah";
> >http://www.paypal.com/somethingsecure/this?that=1
>  
> Or is that even possible? Or is it just expensive? :)

Easily possible, but the rule performs horribly in real-life since it appears
in a ton of ham in the generic sense (ABC).  It's all covered
in http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4255

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has someone already written this rule yet?

2006-02-02 Thread Steven Manross
http://www.whatever.com/secretphishersite/blah?something=blahblah";
>http://www.paypal.com/somethingsecure/this?that=1
 
...where you test what is in the href section against what they are
trying to display in the visible part of the A tag -- and if a URL is
found in the visible part of the A tag, check to see if the domain name
matches the href...
 
Or is that even possible? Or is it just expensive? :)
 
It's just a thought.  I hadnt seen it suggested.  :)
 
Let the flames begin!

Steven