Re: Why do Spambot HELO Signatures appear to be random characters?

2006-06-27 Thread Loren Wilton
> Here are the kind of HELO Signatures my favorite Spambot produces: > (always lower case, always one period, never a .tld) > > ljxr.pzt > mclbfk.wdui > zsgnwd.zctjrq Hum. Weren't there some rulesets predating SARE that checked for odd letter combinations of various kinds in the mail body? Tripl

Re: Why do Spambot HELO Signatures appear to be random characters?

2006-06-26 Thread Benny Pedersen
> BTW, Notice that the HELO signatures have an identifying characteristic: > randomness http://policyd.sf.net/ find # HELO Randomization Prevention (HRP) in the readme > Could we use the HELO randomness to identify the source as a Spambot? postfix can reject it with out any patches to it

Why do Spambot HELO Signatures appear to be random characters?

2006-06-26 Thread Jim Hermann - UUN Hostmaster
In some other work that I was doing, I ran across this information: BTW, Notice that the HELO signatures have an identifying characteristic: randomness Could we use the HELO randomness to identify the source as a Spambot? Here are the kind of HELO Signatures my favorite Spambot produces: (always