SPF lookup error

2013-06-13 Thread Amir 'CG' Caspi
Hi all, I am getting the follow error peppering my maillogs: Jun 13 01:26:42 kismet spamd[24575]: spf: lookup failed: Can't locate object method new_from_string via package Mail::SPF::v1::Record at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SPF/Server.pm line 524. This occurs very often,

Re: PayPal spam filter?

2013-06-13 Thread RW
On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:26:29 -0500 (CDT) David B Funk wrote: However this will not hit all the human engineered varients which try to fool people into thinking that they're PayPal (EG: PayPaI) or which have PayPal in the comment field part of the address/URL but have a completely different

Re: Massive spamruns

2013-06-13 Thread polloxx
Neil, I'm sorry but I can't disclose the logs. fortunately 95% of them were blocked by blacklisting or greylisting. I just wanted to know if other people see a massive increase of spam the last weeks. On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Benny Pedersen m...@junc.eu wrote: Alex skrev den

Re: sa-update: MIRRORED.BY is 404 for any channel

2013-06-13 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Wednesday, June 12, 2013 10:12 PM -0600 Mike Brown m...@skew.org wrote: Martin wrote: Do you have a MIRRORED.BY file in you spamassassin update directory? It looks like it doesn't have the file with the mirrors in and instead is using the file name. If so you could copy it over from

Re: PayPal spam filter?

2013-06-13 Thread Neil Schwartzman
On Jun 12, 2013, at 3:37 PM, Daniel McDonald dan.mcdon...@austinenergy.com wrote: I believe Paypal is DKIM signed, Sure is. Also DMARCed and SPFed too. ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;paypal.com.IN TXT ;; ANSWER SECTION: paypal.com. 7 IN TXT

Re: Massive spamruns

2013-06-13 Thread Alex
Hi, On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Daniel McDonald dan.mcdon...@austinenergy.com wrote: On 6/12/13 1:25 PM, Alex mysqlstud...@gmail.com wrote: John Hardin wrote: As was suggested earlier: greylisting? I really don't think my users would tolerate the delay, so I've never implemented it.

Re: Massive spamruns

2013-06-13 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 13 Jun 2013, Alex wrote: John Hardin wrote: As was suggested earlier: greylisting? I'm thinking this is sounding like a better option. The IPs change way too quickly for me to be able to keep up with updating a DNSBL. It's funny -- despite all MXs having the same weight, mail03 is

Re: Massive spamruns

2013-06-13 Thread Alex
Hi, On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:53 PM, John Hardin jhar...@impsec.org wrote: On Thu, 13 Jun 2013, Alex wrote: I'm thinking this is sounding like a better option. The IPs change way too quickly for me to be able to keep up with updating a DNSBL. It's funny -- despite all MXs having the same

New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-13 Thread Amir 'CG' Caspi
Lately, I've been getting hit with a LOT of this type of spam: http://pastebin.com/HD0rNdxU Not all of it is identical in format, but there seems to be one thing in common: they include lots of random garbage inside either CSS or in HTML comments. All of this gets ignored by the HTML parser

Re: Large # of Spam getting through all of a sudden.

2013-06-13 Thread Alex
Hi, On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Kris Deugau kdeu...@vianet.ca wrote: Alex wrote: It turned out to be a bit of local config, Care to share the specifics? I can't think of any SA configuration that might trigger this, TBH. I had made some changes then ultimately overwrote it with the

Re: New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-13 Thread Alex
Hi, Lately, I've been getting hit with a LOT of this type of spam: http://pastebin.com/HD0rNdxU I think people will start by telling you to block the pw domain From: Hoveround m...@xanti.shahphiler.pw More in this thread:

Re: New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-13 Thread Amir 'CG' Caspi
At 7:25 PM -0400 06/13/2013, Alex wrote: I think people will start by telling you to block the pw domain Sure, but not all of the comment-laden spam is from the pw domain. It comes in from .net, .com, .us, and a bunch of other places as well. This is just the one example I happened to pick

Re: Massive spamruns

2013-06-13 Thread Alex
Hi, On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Benny Pedersen m...@junc.eu wrote: Ben Johnson skrev den 2013-06-12 18:26: Isn't this the function that Bayes is intended to serve, rather precisely? sa-grey plugin might help, spammers change sender address and ips, so lets track it, works well here,

Re: New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-13 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
In an older episode, on 2013-06-14 01:36, Amir 'CG' Caspi wrote: (I am relatively new to SA's internal workings and don't know how to make such a rule, however.) For basics of writing SA rules, maybe look at http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/WritingRules Hope this helps, wolfgang

Re: New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-13 Thread Alex
Hi, On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Amir 'CG' Caspi ceph...@3phase.com wrote: At 7:25 PM -0400 06/13/2013, Alex wrote: I think people will start by telling you to block the pw domain Sure, but not all of the comment-laden spam is from the pw domain. It comes in from .net, .com, .us, and a

Re: New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-13 Thread Amir 'CG' Caspi
At 8:04 PM -0400 06/13/2013, Alex wrote: After looking at it more closely, it's also only hitting bayes20 for you. Do the others also score so low? This hits bayes99 on my system. The ones that SA doesn't catch, yes, they are typically low. I have some that are bayes50, some bayes20, some

Re: PayPal spam filter?

2013-06-13 Thread Jason Haar
On 14/06/13 07:08, Neil Schwartzman wrote: Sure is. Also DMARCed and SPFed too. ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;paypal.com http://paypal.com.INTXT ;; ANSWER SECTION: paypal.com http://paypal.com.7INTXTv=spf1 include:pp._spf.paypal.com http://spf.paypal.com include:3rdparty._spf.paypal.com

Re: New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-13 Thread Alex
Hi, After looking at it more closely, it's also only hitting bayes20 for you. Do the others also score so low? This hits bayes99 on my system. The ones that SA doesn't catch, yes, they are typically low. I have some that are bayes50, some bayes20, some bayes00. Any that are bayes99 are

Re: Massive spamruns

2013-06-13 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 13 Jun 2013, Alex wrote: There's anecdotal reports that spammers focus on backup MX hosts in the hopes they are less-well-protected. You might also try changing the MX weighting and see if that causes the spam to concentrate on a specific MX host. That might give you a little more

Re: New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-13 Thread John Hardin
comments (like, multi-KB length comments), and/or looks in the CSS for long sequences of garbage? http://ruleqa.spamassassin.org/20130613-r1492572-n/STYLE_GIBBERISH/detail -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk

Re: PayPal spam filter?

2013-06-13 Thread Benny Pedersen
Jason Haar skrev den 2013-06-14 02:38: Yeah but notice ~all is not -all. ie they are saying that legitimate Paypal email comes from those specific sources - except when it doesn't if its pass then its paypal, if its softfail then we are unsure is what it means I don't understand why ~all

Re: New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-13 Thread Alex
. I wonder, can a rule be created that basically looks for incredibly long HTML comments (like, multi-KB length comments), and/or looks in the CSS for long sequences of garbage? http://ruleqa.spamassassin.org/20130613-r1492572-n/STYLE_GIBBERISH/detail John, I've just tried with your latest

Re: Massive spamruns

2013-06-13 Thread Benny Pedersen
Alex skrev den 2013-06-14 00:42: I'm thinking this is sounding like a better option. The IPs change way too quickly for me to be able to keep up with updating a DNSBL. It's funny -- despite all MXs having the same weight, mail03 is really the one that's pounded with these pump-and-dump spams.

Re: New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-13 Thread Benny Pedersen
Amir 'CG' Caspi skrev den 2013-06-14 01:05: Lately, I've been getting hit with a LOT of this type of spam: http://pastebin.com/HD0rNdxU Not all of it is identical in format, but there seems to be one thing in common: they include lots of random garbage inside either CSS or in HTML comments.