Re: "Pill" spams

2012-04-20 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Ned Slider wrote: John - please could you explain the closing /sm as I'm unfamiliar with it's usage? Multiline matching. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key:

Re: "Pill" spams

2012-04-20 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Ned Slider wrote: On 16/04/12 04:56, John Hardin wrote: header SUBJ_ODD_CASE ALL =~ /\n(?!(?:Subject:|SUBJECT:|subject:))(?i:subject:)/sm describe SUBJ_ODD_CASE Oddly mixed-case Subject: header I have quite a few examples of these in my archives, and I confirm your ru

Re: "Pill" spams

2012-04-20 Thread Ned Slider
On 20/04/12 23:24, Ned Slider wrote: On 20/04/12 20:17, Ned Slider wrote: On 16/04/12 04:56, John Hardin wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, John Hardin wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Thomas Johnson wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > That sounds like it might be good rule-f

Re: "Pill" spams

2012-04-20 Thread Ned Slider
On 20/04/12 20:17, Ned Slider wrote: On 16/04/12 04:56, John Hardin wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, John Hardin wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Thomas Johnson wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > That sounds like it might be good rule-fodder. "subject", "Subject", > and "SU

Re: "Pill" spams

2012-04-20 Thread Ned Slider
xample, I'd expect to see: Subject: Re: Some text and not: Subject:Re:Some text I have ~100 further examples of these that do not have mixed case Subject (pastebin below), mostly pill spams that look like they are sent by the same broken bot mailer, just with "Subject" in more conventional case. http://pastebin.com/Zu0uvViQ Regards.

Re: "Pill" spams

2012-04-15 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, John Hardin wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Thomas Johnson wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > That sounds like it might be good rule-fodder.  "subject", "Subject", > and "SUBJECT" are possibly valid, but the other funky capitalizations > might

Re: "Pill" spams

2012-04-10 Thread Rob McEwen
On 4/10/2012 6:29 PM, RW wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:58:51 -0400 > Rob McEwen wrote: >> Meanwhile, the snowshoe spammer's DNS server happens to be messed up, >> overloaded, and returns answers within about 4 seconds. > But unless I'm misunderstanding, the NS lookups would be done on the > TLDs

Re: "Pill" spams

2012-04-10 Thread RW
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:58:51 -0400 Rob McEwen wrote: > Meanwhile, the snowshoe spammer's DNS server happens to be messed up, > overloaded, and returns answers within about 4 seconds. But unless I'm misunderstanding, the NS lookups would be done on the TLDs nameservers, rather than the spammer's

Re: "Pill" spams

2012-04-10 Thread Rob McEwen
On 4/10/2012 3:16 PM, Axb wrote: > On 04/10/2012 08:07 PM, Rob McEwen wrote: > >> (b) If anyone programs this idea into SA, or anywhere else, then >> this should be a separate step AFTER regular URI checkinggiving >> the message a chance to "short circuit" out of processing if it

Re: "Pill" spams

2012-04-10 Thread Axb
On 04/10/2012 08:07 PM, Rob McEwen wrote: (b) If anyone programs this idea into SA, or anywhere else, then this should be a separate step AFTER regular URI checkinggiving the message a chance to "short circuit" out of processing if it already scored high enough after URI

Re: "Pill" spams

2012-04-10 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Thomas Johnson wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: That sounds like it might be good rule-fodder.  "subject", "Subject", and "SUBJECT" are possibly valid, but the other funky capitalizations might be worth a few points. And how would one write a r

Re: "Pill" spams

2012-04-10 Thread Rob McEwen
On 4/10/2012 11:42 AM, Thomas Johnson wrote: > Any other ideas on these pill spams? What are they scoring for anyone else? Hi. I've been following this thread. Here are some (random) thoughts & suggestions: (1) In some of those examples Thomas provided, at least one of the assigned

Re: "Pill" spams

2012-04-10 Thread Thomas Johnson
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Alex wrote: > +1 for these. I've seen a ton of these, and the only protection I have > is a local URIBL I've built for the many new domains that haven't yet > been added to the public URIBLs. > > Yours don't have any spamassassin/amavisd headers. How are you process

Re: "Pill" spams

2012-04-10 Thread Thomas Johnson
rule for that? It's not a header rule that matches the content of the Subject header line, but the initial "SubjeCT" itself. And how to do the proper regex match? Any other ideas on these pill spams? What are they scoring for anyone else?

Re: "Pill" spams

2012-04-10 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 4/9/2012 5:39 PM, Thomas Johnson wrote: > Getting a bunch of these, and I'm getting very low scores, using the > latest spamassassin rules, and the most common third-party rulesets. > > Also using spamhaus, investment and other DNSBLs, but my users seem to > be getting these before the urls are

Re: "Pill" spams

2012-04-09 Thread Alex
Hi, > Getting a bunch of these, and I'm getting very low scores, using the > latest spamassassin rules, and the most common third-party rulesets. > > Also using spamhaus, investment and other DNSBLs, but my users seem to > be getting these before the urls are making their way into those > DNSBLs.

"Pill" spams

2012-04-09 Thread Thomas Johnson
Getting a bunch of these, and I'm getting very low scores, using the latest spamassassin rules, and the most common third-party rulesets. Also using spamhaus, investment and other DNSBLs, but my users seem to be getting these before the urls are making their way into those DNSBLs. The subject is