Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-04 Thread David F. Skoll
On Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:23:33 +0200 Axb axb.li...@gmail.com wrote: Dave sells boxes - if a client needs more resources, Dave will happily sell him more boxes .-) :) Actually, we don't sell boxes. We sell ISO images. Anyway, the cost of hardware is relatively cheap and it's a one-time cost

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-04 Thread Benny Pedersen
David B Funk skrev den 2013-06-03 21:34: Why not just block connections from infected PCs? pbl is not infected, its spamhaus dynamic ips that do not send mail direct to mx, this list is splitted into 2, one of them is isp managed, and the other is spamhaus managed, whetter or not the

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-04 Thread Benny Pedersen
David B Funk skrev den 2013-06-03 23:02: Maybe the lack of Received: headers could be used as the basis for an SA rule. How many legit MTAs are there that don't add Received: headers? Hopefully none. imho all mta add atleast one last recieved header, this part cant be abused of spammers,

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-04 Thread Benny Pedersen
Dave Warren skrev den 2013-06-03 23:45: Unless you run submitted outbound mail through SpamAssassin, in which case you could expect a VERY high false positive rate. While SpamAssassin isn't fantastic for this particular role, it can help you catch compromised accounts/systems before they spew

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-04 Thread Benny Pedersen
John Hardin skrev den 2013-06-04 00:22: Suggestions for likely combinations are welcome, but at this time the masscheck corpora only show less than 5% direct-to-MX spam vs. 20% ham. Whether that's an indication that spambots are in a lull or the corpora doesn't represent actual spam reality

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-04 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
John Hardin skrev den 2013-06-04 00:22: Suggestions for likely combinations are welcome, but at this time the masscheck corpora only show less than 5% direct-to-MX spam vs. 20% ham. Whether that's an indication that spambots are in a lull or the corpora doesn't represent actual spam reality

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-04 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
David B Funk skrev den 2013-06-03 23:02: Maybe the lack of Received: headers could be used as the basis for an SA rule. How many legit MTAs are there that don't add Received: headers? Hopefully none. On 04.06.13 13:26, Benny Pedersen wrote: imho all mta add atleast one last recieved header,

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-04 Thread Benny Pedersen
Matus UHLAR - fantomas skrev den 2013-06-04 15:19: note that many servers consider sender address verification as abuse. if thay do, feel free to block it, no recipient will see problem doing so note that i do spf test before sender address verification, that way i keep it low abuse, if

Sender address verification (was Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams)

2013-06-04 Thread David F. Skoll
On Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:32:17 +0200 Benny Pedersen m...@junc.eu wrote: Matus UHLAR - fantomas skrev den 2013-06-04 15:19: note that many servers consider sender address verification as abuse. note that i do spf test before sender address verification, that way i keep it low abuse, if you

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-04 Thread Benny Pedersen
Matus UHLAR - fantomas skrev den 2013-06-04 15:20: some do but after milters are checked. That's why e.g. sa-milter must fake Received: headers when passing the mail to spamassassin. basicly yes, but why not test client ip rbl in mta stage ?- sa-milter is one milter that is basicly brokken,

Re: Sender address verification (was Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams)

2013-06-04 Thread Benny Pedersen
David F. Skoll skrev den 2013-06-04 15:34: On Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:32:17 +0200 Benny Pedersen m...@junc.eu wrote: Matus UHLAR - fantomas skrev den 2013-06-04 15:19: note that many servers consider sender address verification as abuse. note that i do spf test before sender address

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-04 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Matus UHLAR - fantomas skrev den 2013-06-04 15:20: some do but after milters are checked. That's why e.g. sa-milter must fake Received: headers when passing the mail to spamassassin. On 04.06.13 15:35, Benny Pedersen wrote: basicly yes, but why not test client ip rbl in mta stage ? what

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-04 Thread Benny Pedersen
Matus UHLAR - fantomas skrev den 2013-06-04 16:13: besically broken in what way? That it fakes Received: header so the mail can be processed with SA without SA hacks? milter api is, milters just test what is in milter api, so error is design in milter api not in sendmail mta / postfix mta,

libmilter policy (was Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams)

2013-06-04 Thread David F. Skoll
On Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:43:17 +0200 Benny Pedersen m...@junc.eu wrote: it would be better if libmilter api did the fake recieved so all milters get consistense No. Individual milters should decide whether or not they need to fake a Received: header. It's not a policy that should be imposed

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
On 6/2/2013 at 12:30 PM, Wolfgang Zeikat wolfgang.zei...@desy.de wrote: In an older episode, on 2013-06-02 16:16, David F. Skoll wrote: 3) Envelope sender is in the nacha.org domain 2 days ago, we received hundreds of mails with that envelope sender domain containing malware like

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread Axb
On 06/03/2013 12:04 PM, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: On 6/2/2013 at 12:30 PM, Wolfgang Zeikat wolfgang.zei...@desy.de wrote: In an older episode, on 2013-06-02 16:16, David F. Skoll wrote: 3) Envelope sender is in the nacha.org domain 2 days ago, we received hundreds of mails with that envelope

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
On 6/3/2013 at 6:08 AM, Axb axb.li...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/03/2013 12:04 PM, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: On 6/2/2013 at 12:30 PM, Wolfgang Zeikat wolfgang.zei...@desy.de wrote: In an older episode, on 2013-06-02 16:16, David F. Skoll wrote: 3) Envelope sender is in the nacha.org domain 2 days

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 06/03/2013 12:04 PM, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: What's interesting to me is that nacha is the standards (my term) association (www.nacha.org) for ach (the automated check clearing house) which does such things as direct deposit and other transactions. On 03.06.13 12:08, Axb wrote: As they're

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread David F. Skoll
On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 14:28:36 +0200 Matus UHLAR - fantomas uh...@fantomas.sk wrote: you should look at Received: headers to see who passed the mail to you and complain to abuse@ there. If the mail came from nacha.org, the ab...@nacha.org is the right place to send complaints.. There were no

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread Benny Pedersen
David F. Skoll skrev den 2013-06-03 14:52: There were no Received: headers in my samples. They were directly injected by compromised Windows boxes. and your own mta will not add one ? :) hmp! -- senders that put my email into body content will deliver it to my own trashcan, so if you

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread David F. Skoll
On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:08:55 +0200 Benny Pedersen m...@junc.eu wrote: [DFS says no Received: headers] and your own mta will not add one ? :) My MTA will add a header if I let it relay the mail. These messages were intercepted and stopped as they came in, so I see whatever headers they had *at

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 14:28:36 +0200 Matus UHLAR - fantomas uh...@fantomas.sk wrote: you should look at Received: headers to see who passed the mail to you and complain to abuse@ there. If the mail came from nacha.org, the ab...@nacha.org is the right place to send complaints.. On 03.06.13

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread David F. Skoll
On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 16:11:28 +0200 Matus UHLAR - fantomas uh...@fantomas.sk wrote: I believe you are able to track network admins of connecting IPs. Or, simply check theis rDNS (forward-confirmed) and contact abuse@delegated.domain... Well yeah, but in the example I posted the machine

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, David F. Skoll wrote: On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 16:11:28 +0200 Matus UHLAR - fantomas uh...@fantomas.sk wrote: I believe you are able to track network admins of connecting IPs. Or, simply check theis rDNS (forward-confirmed) and contact abuse@delegated.domain... Well yeah, but

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread David F. Skoll
On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 14:34:30 -0500 (CDT) David B Funk dbf...@engineering.uiowa.edu wrote: Do you not like connection-oriented RBLs? That client IP address is in both cbl.abuseat.org pbl.spamhaus.org lists as an infected client. We run an anti-spam service for about 100K users and sell

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, David F. Skoll wrote: On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 14:28:36 +0200 Matus UHLAR - fantomas uh...@fantomas.sk wrote: you should look at Received: headers to see who passed the mail to you and complain to abuse@ there. If the mail came from nacha.org, the ab...@nacha.org is the right

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread Dave Warren
On 2013-06-03 14:02, David B Funk wrote: On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, David F. Skoll wrote: On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 14:28:36 +0200 Matus UHLAR - fantomas uh...@fantomas.sk wrote: you should look at Received: headers to see who passed the mail to you and complain to abuse@ there. If the mail came from

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread Alex
Hi, Do you not like connection-oriented RBLs? That client IP address is in both cbl.abuseat.org pbl.spamhaus.org lists as an infected client. We run an anti-spam service for about 100K users and sell appliances that filter for many more. Paying for RBLs is not cost-effective at that

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, David B Funk wrote: On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, David F. Skoll wrote: There were no Received: headers in my samples. They were directly injected by compromised Windows boxes. Maybe the lack of Received: headers could be used as the basis for an SA rule. How many legit MTAs

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread Axb
On 06/03/2013 11:51 PM, Alex wrote: Hi, Do you not like connection-oriented RBLs? That client IP address is in both cbl.abuseat.org pbl.spamhaus.org lists as an infected client. We run an anti-spam service for about 100K users and sell appliances that filter for many more. Paying for RBLs

Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-02 Thread David F. Skoll
Hi, Is anyone seeing a rash of spams with these characteristics? 1) Subject is RE: Hello 2) From: header is randomly-generated first_l...@somedomain.com 3) Envelope sender is in the nacha.org domain 4) SPF fails 5) Message body consists only of this: Im fine thanks , RandomFirstName

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-02 Thread Christian Recktenwald
On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 10:16:56AM -0400, David F. Skoll wrote: Hi, Is anyone seeing a rash of spams with these characteristics? Similar waves occur from time to time. My guess (in order of sophistication): - someone's just not able to use their spam software - probing - bayes / awl

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-02 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
In an older episode, on 2013-06-02 16:16, David F. Skoll wrote: 3) Envelope sender is in the nacha.org domain 2 days ago, we received hundreds of mails with that envelope sender domain containing malware like Case_05312013_28192.exe extracted from the attachment Case_3375975.zip And