Re: Uptick in spam

2015-04-05 Thread Bill Cole
On 1 Apr 2015, at 17:26, Amir Caspi wrote: On Apr 1, 2015, at 3:03 PM, Kevin Miller kevin.mil...@juneau.org wrote: You can reject on RDNS (or lack thereof) in sendmail depending on the version. Search for require_rdns. Thanks, I'll look into it. Sadly I don't think I have time to

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-04-01 Thread Axb
On 04/01/2015 10:45 PM, Amir Caspi wrote: Certainly it would be interesting to add such capability to SA (to add points for known spammy DNS providers and/or registrars), though I imagine that could be a recipe for FPs in some cases. Then again, we did it for .pw URIs, so... You can do it

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-04-01 Thread Amir Caspi
On Apr 1, 2015, at 3:03 PM, Kevin Miller kevin.mil...@juneau.org wrote: You can reject on RDNS (or lack thereof) in sendmail depending on the version. Search for require_rdns. Thanks, I'll look into it. Sadly I don't think I have time to manually whitelist misconfigured servers, since I

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-04-01 Thread Amir Caspi
On Apr 1, 2015, at 2:26 PM, Kevin Miller kevin.mil...@juneau.org wrote: I blocked the RRPPROXY.NET name servers at the firewall. [...] After I did that, almost instantly the spam dropped dramatically. [...] There was some discussion in this group about blocking on DNS providers about a

RE: Uptick in spam

2015-04-01 Thread Kevin Miller
-Original Message- Ah, I see... you killed them at the firewall itself, before they even got to sendmail. I was wondering how blocking the name servers themselves would help, since (at least in my configuration) sendmail doesn't reject just due to bad rDNS (not sure if that's even

RE: Uptick in spam

2015-04-01 Thread Kevin Miller
I'm a bit late to the party (was on vacation) but your woes sounded awfully familiar. I was getting slammed by spam a couple months ago. The domains changed daily, but the one consistent thing was they were all served by RRPPROXY.NET. I blocked the RRPPROXY.NET name servers at the firewall.

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-30 Thread Kris Deugau
David Jones wrote: The invaluement RBL is not expensive either and it is awesome. We pay thousands per year for a Spamhaus feed because of our volume and mailboxes. The invaluement RBL is only hundreds per year and it's almost as good as Spamhaus Zen. Seconded; this is exactly what

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-30 Thread Rob McEwen
On 3/30/2015 11:49 AM, Kris Deugau wrote: Seconded; this is exactly what we've been finding. Invaluement is a great complement to Spamhaus for a fraction of the cost. I wouldn't put it as a front-line reject DNSBL, because some of the things that have been listed are not what I would class,

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-30 Thread Rob McEwen
On 3/30/2015 1:19 PM, Kris Deugau wrote: The cases I can recall are more along the lines of grey-hat ESPs who pick up a spammer client for a while, Kris, The next time you run across this and think it might be causing a little too much collateral damage (in spite of the spamming), let me

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-30 Thread Kris Deugau
Rob McEwen wrote: On 3/30/2015 11:49 AM, Kris Deugau wrote: Seconded; this is exactly what we've been finding. Invaluement is a great complement to Spamhaus for a fraction of the cost. I wouldn't put it as a front-line reject DNSBL, because some of the things that have been listed are not

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-30 Thread Amir Caspi
On Mar 30, 2015, at 9:49 AM, Kris Deugau kdeu...@vianet.ca wrote: Seconded; this is exactly what we've been finding. Invaluement is a great complement to Spamhaus for a fraction of the cost. Definitely something to add to my nice to have list for the future. Sadly, as I mentioned earlier,

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-28 Thread David Jones
From: Benny Pedersen m...@junc.eu Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 10:48 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Uptick in spam David Jones skrev den 2015-03-28 03:13: I have Spamhaus in front of invaluement in my postfix configuration but I may try flipping the order just to see

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.03.2015 um 13:01 schrieb David Jones: From: Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 6:13 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Uptick in spam Am 28.03.2015 um 12:04 schrieb David Jones: I know that but I choose to use the traditional method

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-28 Thread David Jones
From: Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 6:13 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Uptick in spam Am 28.03.2015 um 12:04 schrieb David Jones: I know that but I choose to use the traditional method in the Postfix smtpd_recipient_restrictions so I can

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-28 Thread Axb
On 03/28/2015 06:47 AM, Rob McEwen wrote: On 3/27/2015 10:13 PM, David Jones wrote: The invaluement RBL is not expensive either and it is awesome. We pay thousands per year for a Spamhaus feed because of our volume and mailboxes. The invaluement RBL is only hundreds per year and it's almost

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.03.2015 um 12:04 schrieb David Jones: I know that but I choose to use the traditional method in the Postfix smtpd_recipient_restrictions so I can specify the order. I have such a high volume of mail for more than 100,000 mailboxes, I want to check in a specific order using my local

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-28 Thread David Jones
From: Rob McEwen r...@invaluement.com Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 12:47 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Uptick in spam On 3/27/2015 10:13 PM, David Jones wrote: The invaluement RBL is not expensive either and it is awesome. We pay thousands per year for a Spamhaus feed

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Axb
On 03/27/2015 08:20 PM, Amir Caspi wrote: On Mar 27, 2015, at 12:56 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas uh...@fantomas.sk wrote: I see no network checks here... do you use network checks? On Mar 27, 2015, at 1:11 PM, Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@pccc.com wrote: Are you using network tests? These are

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Amir Caspi
On Mar 27, 2015, at 12:56 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas uh...@fantomas.sk wrote: I see no network checks here... do you use network checks? On Mar 27, 2015, at 1:11 PM, Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@pccc.com wrote: Are you using network tests? These are scoring pretty high for me. I presume you're

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Amir Caspi
On Mar 27, 2015, at 1:20 PM, Axb axb.li...@gmail.com wrote: These three samples are very different in the sense that #1 is a hacked site, #2 #3 are the regular snowshoe. Of course, I picked three different samples on purpose. But, I have hundreds that replicate these. What I miss in your

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Amir Caspi
On Mar 27, 2015, at 1:33 PM, Axb axb.li...@gmail.com wrote: Are you using Mailscanner? if yes then it's you munging URIS so they breaking lookups on any hash type as in Yes, I am using MailScanner. Some URIs are munged, others are not. For example, you can see in that very pastebin you

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Axb
On 03/27/2015 08:45 PM, Amir Caspi wrote: On Mar 27, 2015, at 1:33 PM, Axb axb.li...@gmail.com wrote: Are you using Mailscanner? if yes then it's you munging URIS so they breaking lookups on any hash type as in Yes, I am using MailScanner. Some URIs are munged, others are not. For example,

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Axb
On 03/27/2015 07:51 PM, Amir Caspi wrote: Here are a few spamples: http://pastebin.com/3nSLurGv (this scored BAYES_99 but would still have been FN with BAYES_999) http://pastebin.com/LaKT5ZZK (I have a rule template for these URIs but recent spams have modified them to cause high risk of FPs

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread shanew
Apologies if this is an overly obvious answer, but are you using any greylisting? This would (potentially) move your user away from the wavefront of a spam's distribution, and give it a better chance of triggering the network-based tests. On Fri, 27 Mar 2015, Amir Caspi wrote: This is my whole

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Amir Caspi
On Mar 27, 2015, at 1:38 PM, sha...@shanew.net wrote: Apologies if this is an overly obvious answer, but are you using any greylisting? This would (potentially) move your user away from the wavefront of a spam's distribution, and give it a better chance of triggering the network-based tests.

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Amir Caspi
On Feb 16, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@pccc.com wrote: I'm happy to look at a recent sample and throw it through my system to see what it hits but overall, I've been seeing the exact opposite. So, one of my users has been getting dozens (sometimes nearly 100) FNs per DAY

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Amir Caspi
On Mar 27, 2015, at 12:20 PM, Axb axb.li...@gmail.com wrote: - Please post missed spam samples in pastebin.com - do not post samples to mailing lists Of course, I would never post it to the list. I will put up a few in pastebin but there are so many of them, and there are a few different

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 27.03.2015 um 19:13 schrieb Amir Caspi: On Feb 16, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@pccc.com wrote: I'm happy to look at a recent sample and throw it through my system to see what it hits but overall, I've been seeing the exact opposite. So, one of my users has been getting

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 27.03.15 12:51, Amir Caspi wrote: Here are a few spamples: http://pastebin.com/3nSLurGv (this scored BAYES_99 but would still have been FN with BAYES_999) http://pastebin.com/LaKT5ZZK (I have a rule template for these URIs but recent spams have modified them to cause high risk of FPs for

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Axb
On 03/27/2015 07:13 PM, Amir Caspi wrote: On Feb 16, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@pccc.com wrote: I'm happy to look at a recent sample and throw it through my system to see what it hits but overall, I've been seeing the exact opposite. So, one of my users has been getting

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread RW
On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 12:13:30 -0600 Amir Caspi wrote: On Feb 16, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@pccc.com wrote: I'm happy to look at a recent sample and throw it through my system to see what it hits but overall, I've been seeing the exact opposite. So, one of my users

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Amir Caspi
On Mar 27, 2015, at 12:22 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: we have currently 577 different subjects and subject-parts scored , i don't want to publish them because i'd like the spammers don't change to new ones :-) Sadly, that doesn't help me. I don't have time to compile

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 3/27/2015 2:51 PM, Amir Caspi wrote: On Mar 27, 2015, at 12:20 PM, Axb axb.li...@gmail.com wrote: - Please post missed spam samples in pastebin.com - do not post samples to mailing lists Of course, I would never post it to the list. I will put up a few in pastebin but there are so many

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 27 Mar 2015, Amir Caspi wrote: On Mar 27, 2015, at 12:56 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas uh...@fantomas.sk wrote: I see no network checks here... do you use network checks? On Mar 27, 2015, at 1:11 PM, Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@pccc.com wrote: Are you using network tests? These are

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 27 Mar 2015, Amir Caspi wrote: On Mar 27, 2015, at 1:38 PM, sha...@shanew.net wrote: Apologies if this is an overly obvious answer, but are you using any greylisting? This would (potentially) move your user away from the wavefront of a spam's distribution, and give it a better chance

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Richard Doyle
On 03/27/2015 11:51 AM, Amir Caspi wrote: On Mar 27, 2015, at 12:20 PM, Axb axb.li...@gmail.com wrote: - Please post missed spam samples in pastebin.com - do not post samples to mailing lists Of course, I would never post it to the list. I will put up a few in pastebin but there are so

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Amir Caspi
On Mar 27, 2015, at 2:09 PM, Axb axb.li...@gmail.com wrote: As an AV product I'd recommend Sophos AND ESETS/Nod32. I'll look into Sophos, I'm not entirely sure if I can deploy it on my system or not. We have to use RPMs that can be distributed to the virtual hosts, etc... I'll definitely

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Amir Caspi
On Mar 27, 2015, at 3:34 PM, Richard Doyle lists...@islandnetworks.com wrote: All of these were From: domains created today. Shouldn't they have been picked up by DOB? Or do I need to manually enable some DOB plugin in SA? (If so, please let me know how...) When I ran the third spample

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Axb
On 03/27/2015 11:44 PM, Amir Caspi wrote: On Mar 27, 2015, at 3:34 PM, Richard Doyle lists...@islandnetworks.com wrote: All of these were From: domains created today. Shouldn't they have been picked up by DOB? Or do I need to manually enable some DOB plugin in SA? (If so, please let me know

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Amir Caspi
On Mar 27, 2015, at 5:12 PM, Axb axb.li...@gmail.com wrote: DOB isn't realtime/zero hour. That kind of defeats the point, isn't it? I mean, if you wait too long, it's no longer DOB, it's few-DOB... I would have imagined that a DOB server would operate in a caching mode where the first query

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Richard Doyle
On 03/27/2015 03:44 PM, Amir Caspi wrote: On Mar 27, 2015, at 3:34 PM, Richard Doyle lists...@islandnetworks.com wrote: All of these were From: domains created today. Shouldn't they have been picked up by DOB? Or do I need to manually enable some DOB plugin in SA? (If so, please let me

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread RW
On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 17:40:58 -0600 Amir Caspi wrote: On Mar 27, 2015, at 5:12 PM, Axb axb.li...@gmail.com wrote: DOB isn't realtime/zero hour. That kind of defeats the point, isn't it? I mean, if you wait too long, it's no longer DOB, it's few-DOB... I think it's 5 days, and the

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Axb
On 03/28/2015 12:40 AM, Amir Caspi wrote: On Mar 27, 2015, at 5:12 PM, Axb axb.li...@gmail.com wrote: DOB isn't realtime/zero hour. That kind of defeats the point, isn't it? I mean, if you wait too long, it's no longer DOB, it's few-DOB... I would have imagined that a DOB server would

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread David Jones
From: Amir Caspi ceph...@3phase.com Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 7:30 PM To: RW Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Uptick in spam On Mar 27, 2015, at 6:19 PM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: There are deep checks for SBL (via zen) and SPAMCOP. XBL/PBL are last-external only

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Dave Pooser
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Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Amir Caspi
On Mar 27, 2015, at 6:19 PM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: There are deep checks for SBL (via zen) and SPAMCOP. XBL/PBL are last-external only Interesting. I wonder why I see those XBL/PBL hits, then. Maybe Zen timed out on those queries from sendmail... or something. Either way I

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Benny Pedersen
David Jones skrev den 2015-03-28 03:13: I have Spamhaus in front of invaluement in my postfix configuration but I may try flipping the order just to see if it will start blocking more than Spamhaus. with postfix posttscreen one can test all ips on all rbls in same single smtpd client check,

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Rob McEwen
On 3/27/2015 10:13 PM, David Jones wrote: The invaluement RBL is not expensive either and it is awesome. We pay thousands per year for a Spamhaus feed because of our volume and mailboxes. The invaluement RBL is only hundreds per year and it's almost as good as Spamhaus Zen. I have Spamhaus

Re: Uptick in spam (bayes stats script)

2015-02-22 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 22.02.2015 um 15:30 schrieb @lbutlr: On 21 Feb 2015, at 08:34 , LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On Feb 18, 2015, at 6:20 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: bayes-stats.txt That is a lot cleaner and more obvious, thank you for sharing I ran this just after log rotation

Re: Uptick in spam (bayes stats script)

2015-02-22 Thread @lbutlr
On 21 Feb 2015, at 08:34 , LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On Feb 18, 2015, at 6:20 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: bayes-stats.txt That is a lot cleaner and more obvious, thank you for sharing I ran this just after log rotation and got div by zero errors, so here is a

Re: Uptick in spam (bayes stats script)

2015-02-21 Thread LuKreme
On Feb 18, 2015, at 6:20 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: bayes-stats.txt That is a lot cleaner and more obvious, thank you for sharing -- Once again I teeter at the precipice of the generation gap.

Re: Uptick in spam (bayes stats script)

2015-02-18 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.02.2015 um 15:23 schrieb Reindl Harald: Am 17.02.2015 um 15:19 schrieb LuKreme: On 16 Feb 2015, at 12:01 , Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: given that 24266 messages had BAYES_00 with a total number of 30401 delivered mails in the current month that training strategy seems to

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-02-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.02.2015 um 15:19 schrieb LuKreme: On 16 Feb 2015, at 12:01 , Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: given that 24266 messages had BAYES_00 with a total number of 30401 delivered mails in the current month that training strategy seems to work well [root@mail-gw:~]$ bayes-stats.sh

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-02-17 Thread LuKreme
On 16 Feb 2015, at 12:01 , Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: given that 24266 messages had BAYES_00 with a total number of 30401 delivered mails in the current month that training strategy seems to work well [root@mail-gw:~]$ bayes-stats.sh What is bayes-stats.sh? -- I have a

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-02-16 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 2/16/2015 1:33 PM, Amir Caspi wrote: Over the last week I've seen a significant uptick in FN spam to my users. We're getting tens of FNs per day per user, whereas a few weeks ago it was just a few FNs per day per user. We're getting BAYES_99/999 on many of these, but no other major

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-02-16 Thread RW
On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 12:47:03 -0700 Amir Caspi wrote: Otherwise, I don't really know... it's clearly not a Bayes issue since it's hitting Bayes 99/999, it's just that there aren't enough other rules being hit to go over the 5.0 threshold. IIWY I'd look into rescoring the BAYES_* rules.

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-02-16 Thread Amir Caspi
On Feb 16, 2015, at 1:01 PM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: IIWY I'd look into rescoring the BAYES_* rules. I was already rescoring them as BAYES_99 = 4.0, BAYES_999 = 0.5 ... so a total score of 4.5 if both rules hit. These FNs typically get scores of 4.6, so the other rules are

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-02-16 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 16.02.2015 um 21:10 schrieb Amir Caspi: On Feb 16, 2015, at 1:01 PM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: IIWY I'd look into rescoring the BAYES_* rules. I was already rescoring them as BAYES_99 = 4.0, BAYES_999 = 0.5 ... so a total score of 4.5 if both rules hit. These FNs typically

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-02-16 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 16 Feb 2015, Amir Caspi wrote: (BTW, I am happy to contribute my spam corpus of well over 7000 messages... right now I can't dedicate CPU time to running masscheck, but I can contribute the messages.) It's possible to upload your corpora and have the central system check it. See the

Uptick in spam

2015-02-16 Thread Amir Caspi
Hi all, Over the last week I've seen a significant uptick in FN spam to my users. We're getting tens of FNs per day per user, whereas a few weeks ago it was just a few FNs per day per user. We're getting BAYES_99/999 on many of these, but no other major markers are hitting (razor, pyzor, dcc

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-02-16 Thread Amir Caspi
On Feb 16, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@pccc.com wrote: I'm happy to look at a recent sample and throw it through my system to see what it hits but overall, I've been seeing the exact opposite. Hmmm. Well, like I said, maybe we're just first on the list and are getting all

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-02-16 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 16.02.2015 um 19:33 schrieb Amir Caspi: Over the last week I've seen a significant uptick in FN spam to my users. We're getting tens of FNs per day per user, whereas a few weeks ago it was just a few FNs per day per user. We're getting BAYES_99/999 on many of these, but no other major