Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-04-11 Thread Alex
Hi, Recently I noticed that this rule was getting FPs from mail on a SourceForge-related mailing list that I thought should have nothing to do with Yahoo, so I added in another (obfuscated) rule. The combination now looks like this: # # Yahoo message-ID but sender not Yahoo. # describe

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-04-11 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 18:25 -0400, Alex wrote: Hi, Recently I noticed that this rule was getting FPs from mail on a SourceForge-related mailing list that I thought should have nothing to do with Yahoo, so I added in another (obfuscated) rule. The combination

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-04-10 Thread Alex
Hi, Would someone put some samples of Yahoo single link spam on PasteBin. I am trying to test my rules and I seem to be missing some of the variations. Here's an example: it is the message I developed the following rule against: http://pastebin.com/VRvtDfER I've obfuscated all e-mail

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-04-10 Thread Noel
On 4/10/2013 7:42 PM, Alex wrote: Hi, Would someone put some samples of Yahoo single link spam on PasteBin. I am trying to test my rules and I seem to be missing some of the variations. Here's an example: it is the message I developed the following rule

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-04-10 Thread Alex
Hi, Would someone put some samples of Yahoo single link spam on PasteBin. I am trying to test my rules and I seem to be missing some of the variations. Here's an example: it is the message I developed the following rule against: http://pastebin.com/VRvtDfER I've obfuscated all e-mail

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-04-10 Thread Noel
On 4/10/2013 9:00 PM, Alex wrote: Hi, Would someone put some samples of Yahoo single link spam on PasteBin. I am trying to test my rules and I seem to be missing some of the variations. Here's an example: it is the message I developed

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-03-19 Thread Alex
Hi, We need a rule to catch this. It looks like more data than it is but it's really little more than a single link. Like to see a rule that identifies it. ---262101065-1882747875-1361559395=:62570 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-03-19 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 3/19/2013 4:54 PM, Alex wrote: I know Kevin posted some rules, but they are no longer effective, as they rely on fixed subjects or sender names. My rules are metas where some of the fixed subjects were useful. The sender names were just internal. However, I find the rules to be very

Re: [sa-list] Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-03-11 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 3/10/2013 3:37 PM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Here's the current version I'm using based on 3.4.0 trunk: #YAHOO COMPROMISED ACCOUNT SPAMS - SCORED HIGH BECAUSE THESE ARE COMPROMISED ACCOUNTS WHICH MAKES ALL OF YAHOO!'s PROCEDURES QUESTIONABLE header __KAM_YAHOO1From =~

Re: [sa-list] Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-03-10 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 2/22/2013 3:27 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:20:22 -0800 Marc Perkel supp...@junkemailfilter.com wrote: We need a rule to catch this. It looks like more data than it is but it's really little more than a single link. Like to

Re: Yahoo single-link spam common elements

2013-03-03 Thread Alex
Hi, My latest attempt is this: header __RP_D_00040_1 From:addr =~ /yahoo/i header __RP_D_00040_2 To =~ /(:?@.*?){5}/ body __RP_D_00040_3 /http.{0,200}\d{1,2}:\d{1,2}:\d{1,2}/ meta RP_D_00040 __RP_D_00040_1 __RP_D_00040_2 __RP_D_00040_3 describe RP_D_00040 Yahoo single-line URL

Re: Yahoo single-link spam common elements

2013-03-03 Thread John Hardin
On Sun, 3 Mar 2013, Alex wrote: Hi, My latest attempt is this: header __RP_D_00040_1 From:addr =~ /yahoo/i header __RP_D_00040_2 To =~ /(:?@.*?){5}/ body __RP_D_00040_3 /http.{0,200}\d{1,2}:\d{1,2}:\d{1,2}/ meta RP_D_00040 __RP_D_00040_1 __RP_D_00040_2 __RP_D_00040_3 describe

Re: Yahoo single-link spam common elements

2013-03-03 Thread Alex
Hi, header __RP_D_00040_1 From:addr =~ /yahoo/i header __RP_D_00040_2 To =~ /(:?@.*?){5}/ body __RP_D_00040_3 /http.{0,200}\d{1,2}:\d{1,2}:\d{1,2}/ meta RP_D_00040 __RP_D_00040_1 __RP_D_00040_2 __RP_D_00040_3 describe RP_D_00040 Yahoo single-line URL spam I'm seeing variations

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-03-02 Thread Niamh Holding
Hello David, Friday, March 1, 2013, 5:33:55 PM, you wrote: DFS are people still seeing these Yahoo single-link spams? Got one yesterday -- Best regards, Niamhmailto:ni...@fullbore.co.uk pgpXCZ6plj3t7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Yahoo single-link spam common elements

2013-03-02 Thread Niamh Holding
Hello David, Friday, March 1, 2013, 5:43:37 PM, you wrote: DFS Can others confirm this pattern? No. URL in yesterday's is http://b23144.s3-website-ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com -- Best regards, Niamhmailto:ni...@fullbore.co.uk pgpdNMFoMBvjX.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-03-01 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 20:34 -0500, Steve Prior wrote: I'm really starting to suspect that these spammers are scraping your public posts on Facebook and grabbing the names of people that commented on those posts, then using a Yahoo account and setting that name on the account before sending

RE: Yahoo single link spam

2013-03-01 Thread Scott Ostrander
Would someone put some samples of Yahoo single link spam on PasteBin. I am trying to test my rules and I seem to be missing some of the variations. Thanks, Scott -Original Message- From: Marc Perkel [mailto:supp...@junkemailfilter.com] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 12:20 PM To: users

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-03-01 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 15:38 +, Scott Ostrander wrote: Would someone put some samples of Yahoo single link spam on PasteBin. I am trying to test my rules and I seem to be missing some of the variations. Here's an example: it is the message I developed the following rule against: http

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-03-01 Thread David F. Skoll
Somewhat OT... are people still seeing these Yahoo single-link spams? They seem to have stopped abruptly as far as I can tell. Regards, David.

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-03-01 Thread Anthony Hoppe
We don't see them as much as we used to, but they still make an appearance every once and a while. ~ Anthony - Original Message - From: David F. Skoll d...@roaringpenguin.com To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Friday, March 1, 2013 9:33:55 AM Subject: Re: Yahoo single link spam

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-03-01 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I saw 3 yesterday, yes. Scored 6.4 but I use a high threshold so I can view the fringe spam. On 3/1/2013 12:33 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: Somewhat OT... are people still seeing these Yahoo single-link spams? They seem to have stopped abruptly as far as

Yahoo single-link spam common elements

2013-03-01 Thread David F. Skoll
Hi, These are the common elements as far as I can see in the text/plain part of the spam: 1) The URL always matches this regex: http://\S+/\S+\.\s+\? In other words, there's always a dot in the URL (not counting the dots in the domain name itself) and a question mark. 2) The URL is then

Re: Yahoo single-link spam common elements

2013-03-01 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 3/1/2013 12:43 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: These are the common elements as far as I can see in the text/plain part of the spam: 1) The URL always matches this regex: http://\S+/\S+\.\s+\? In other words, there's always a dot in the URL (not counting the dots in the domain name itself)

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-03-01 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 12:33 -0500, David F. Skoll wrote: Somewhat OT... are people still seeing these Yahoo single-link spams? They seem to have stopped abruptly as far as I can tell. I haven't seen one for a few days either, but think its still a useful rule because it can't cost a lot to run

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-03-01 Thread Ned Slider
On 01/03/13 17:33, David F. Skoll wrote: Somewhat OT... are people still seeing these Yahoo single-link spams? They seem to have stopped abruptly as far as I can tell. Regards, David. Here's one from this morning: http://pastebin.com/cuk595z6 that matches the pattern being discussed.

Re: Yahoo single-link spam common elements

2013-03-01 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Right: the suggested pattern is working great, but there are some variants as KAM says. However I sense that these are not the same bots. The one with the date in body is always the same (the spammer only changed the date format). I heard about a cross site botnet exploit on Yahoo! and third

Re: Yahoo single-link spam common elements

2013-03-01 Thread David F. Skoll
On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:39:09 -0500 Alexandre Boyer bigg...@gmail.com wrote: Pretty the same as what David suggests :-) My latest attempt is this: header __RP_D_00040_1 From:addr =~ /yahoo/i header __RP_D_00040_2 To =~ /(:?@.*?){5}/ body __RP_D_00040_3

Re: Yahoo single-link spam common elements

2013-03-01 Thread Alexandre Boyer
The famous 5 recipients... I had a (very) few exceptions while having the very same pattern in body. With 4 recipients instead of 5, and sometimes one among the 5 with no To:address, just To:name, wich was harder to count... I removed the similar rule as your __RP_D_00040 from my systems to

Re: Yahoo single-link spam common elements

2013-03-01 Thread Ned Slider
On 01/03/13 19:55, Alexandre Boyer wrote: The famous 5 recipients... I had a (very) few exceptions while having the very same pattern in body. With 4 recipients instead of 5, and sometimes one among the 5 with no To:address, just To:name, wich was harder to count... I removed the similar rule

Re: Yahoo single-link spam common elements

2013-03-01 Thread Benny Pedersen
Ned Slider skrev den 2013-03-02 02:11: header __MANY_RECIPS ToCc =~ /(?:\@[^@]{5,30}){3}/ Can someone explain the regex and why it fails to fire for 7 recipients? as i read it, it fires if there is more then 4 domains, not only 5 recipients, just a wild guess from me since i am

Re: Yahoo single-link spam common elements

2013-03-01 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
In an older episode, on 2013-03-02 02:19, Benny Pedersen wrote: Ned Slider skrev den 2013-03-02 02:11: header __MANY_RECIPS ToCc =~ /(?:\@[^@]{5,30}){3}/ Can someone explain the regex and why it fails to fire for 7 recipients? as i read it, it fires if there is more then 4

Re: Yahoo single-link spam common elements

2013-03-01 Thread John Hardin
On Sat, 2 Mar 2013, Ned Slider wrote: On 01/03/13 19:55, Alexandre Boyer wrote: The famous 5 recipients... I had a (very) few exceptions while having the very same pattern in body. With 4 recipients instead of 5, and sometimes one among the 5 with no To:address, just To:name, wich was

Re: Yahoo single-link spam common elements

2013-03-01 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Sat, 2013-03-02 at 01:11 +, Ned Slider wrote: That said, I just checked my example, and __MANY_RECIPS failed to fire. Here's the current rule: header __MANY_RECIPS ToCc =~ /(?:\@[^@]{5,30}){3}/ Can someone explain the regex and why it fails to fire for 7 recipients? Is

Re: Yahoo single-link spam common elements

2013-03-01 Thread Ned Slider
On 02/03/13 01:40, John Hardin wrote: On Sat, 2 Mar 2013, Ned Slider wrote: On 01/03/13 19:55, Alexandre Boyer wrote: The famous 5 recipients... I had a (very) few exceptions while having the very same pattern in body. With 4 recipients instead of 5, and sometimes one among the 5 with no

Re: Yahoo single-link spam common elements

2013-03-01 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
In an older episode, on 2013-03-02 02:40, John Hardin wrote: header __MANY_RECIPS ToCc =~ /(?:\@[^@]{5,30}){3}/ Can someone explain the regex and why it fails to fire for 7 recipients? (@, followed by 5-30 non-@ characters) repeated three times. Does that mean the same sequence

Re: Yahoo single-link spam common elements

2013-03-01 Thread John Hardin
On Sat, 2 Mar 2013, Wolfgang Zeikat wrote: In an older episode, on 2013-03-02 02:40, John Hardin wrote: header __MANY_RECIPS ToCc =~ /(?:\@[^@]{5,30}){3}/ Can someone explain the regex and why it fails to fire for 7 recipients? (@, followed by 5-30 non-@ characters)

Re: Yahoo single-link spam common elements

2013-03-01 Thread John Hardin
On Sat, 2 Mar 2013, Ned Slider wrote: On 02/03/13 01:40, John Hardin wrote: On Sat, 2 Mar 2013, Ned Slider wrote: header __MANY_RECIPS ToCc =~ /(?:\@[^@]{5,30}){3}/ Can someone explain the regex and why it fails to fire for 7 recipients? If the username + domain name +

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-02-28 Thread Steve Prior
On 2/23/2013 10:56 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: I am 100% certain that it is compromised accounts on yahoo where they steal the address books. They then seem to cross correlate and use common last names to mail people using other compromised yahoo accounts. Though I need to check if they have

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-02-25 Thread David F. Skoll
Hello, I've discovered something... all of our samples of the Yahoo spam contain a text/plain part that contains something like this: http://www.majormedicaladvice.com/gfrqcov/ktr.2dd0ifqv?kj82bw2/25/2013 2:58:33 PMKaryn Armstrong That is, the target URL is immediately followed by the date, a

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-02-24 Thread Benny Pedersen
Marc Perkel skrev den 2013-02-22 21:20: We need a rule to catch this. It looks like more data than it is but it's really little more than a single link. Like to see a rule that identifies it. http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/fox-enws.com/ http://www.trustpilot.com/review/fox-enws.com is

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-02-24 Thread Benny Pedersen
David F. Skoll skrev den 2013-02-22 21:27: HeaderMatches RegExp ^To:(.*?@.*?){5} AND Envelope Sender Ends with@yahoo.com AND MessageSize 6000 Well, ok... the MessageSize condition is tricky. And this rule does kick up some

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-02-24 Thread Axb
On 02/24/2013 06:29 PM, Benny Pedersen wrote: Marc Perkel skrev den 2013-02-22 21:20: We need a rule to catch this. It looks like more data than it is but it's really little more than a single link. Like to see a rule that identifies it. http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/fox-enws.com/

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-02-24 Thread Benny Pedersen
Kevin A. McGrail skrev den 2013-02-22 21:56: describeKAM_YAHOO Compromised Yahoo! Accounts Sending Spam inccorect, if thay are dkim signed its yahoo, if not its a silly spammer blacklist_from (all-yahoo-domains) def_whitelist_from all-yahoo-domains) would be more simple the

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-02-24 Thread Benny Pedersen
Axb skrev den 2013-02-24 18:35: http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/fox-enws.com/ http://www.trustpilot.com/review/fox-enws.com is there a possible to implement it ? imho surbl using it, but it would be nice to have it live tested What you're seeing is other way round - mywot uses SURBL If

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-02-24 Thread Axb
On 02/24/2013 06:48 PM, Benny Pedersen wrote: Axb skrev den 2013-02-24 18:35: http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/fox-enws.com/ http://www.trustpilot.com/review/fox-enws.com is there a possible to implement it ? imho surbl using it, but it would be nice to have it live tested What you're

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-02-24 Thread Benny Pedersen
Axb skrev den 2013-02-24 19:02: I obviosuly didn't understand you , nor do I understand you now doesn't matter... now you understand why you are developper and i am not ? :=))) i rember some that sayed it :(

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-02-24 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 2/23/2013 10:56 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: Though I need to check if they have started forging as well through other servers. Just following up on this and checking the Yahoo! spam that I've been researching, all of it is sent by Yahoo! accounts through Yahoo! with real DKIM signatures.

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-02-24 Thread David F. Skoll
On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 18:35:04 +0100 Benny Pedersen m...@junc.eu wrote: David could you make this as a clamav logical signature ?, and test it ? I don't know how to do that... sorry. Regards, David.

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-02-23 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 12:20 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: We need a rule to catch this. It looks like more data than it is but it's really little more than a single link. Like to see a rule that identifies it. ---262101065-1882747875-1361559395=:62570 Content-Type: text/plain;

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-02-23 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I am 100% certain that it is compromised accounts on yahoo where they steal the address books. They then seem to cross correlate and use common last names to mail people using other compromised yahoo accounts. Though I need to check if they have started forging as well through other servers.

Yahoo single link spam

2013-02-22 Thread Marc Perkel
We need a rule to catch this. It looks like more data than it is but it's really little more than a single link. Like to see a rule that identifies it. ---262101065-1882747875-1361559395=:62570 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-02-22 Thread David F. Skoll
On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:20:22 -0800 Marc Perkel supp...@junkemailfilter.com wrote: We need a rule to catch this. It looks like more data than it is but it's really little more than a single link. Like to see a rule that identifies it. Our product lets you make compound rules. It should not

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-02-22 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 2/22/2013 3:27 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:20:22 -0800 Marc Perkel supp...@junkemailfilter.com wrote: We need a rule to catch this. It looks like more data than it is but it's really little more than a single link. Like to see a rule that identifies it. Our product

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-02-22 Thread The Doctor
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 03:27:27PM -0500, David F. Skoll wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:20:22 -0800 Marc Perkel supp...@junkemailfilter.com wrote: We need a rule to catch this. It looks like more data than it is but it's really little more than a single link. Like to see a rule that

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-02-22 Thread David F. Skoll
On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:56:38 -0500 Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@pccc.com wrote: Here's the current version I'm using based on 3.4.0 trunk: We're seeing many different variations. For example, we see over 70 variations in the name (not just Connor Hopkins). Regards, David.

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-02-22 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 2/22/2013 4:01 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:56:38 -0500 Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@pccc.com wrote: Here's the current version I'm using based on 3.4.0 trunk: We're seeing many different variations. For example, we see over 70 variations in the name (not just Connor

Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-02-22 Thread Steve Prior
Here's the current version I'm using based on 3.4.0 trunk: We're seeing many different variations. For example, we see over 70 variations in the name (not just Connor Hopkins). Agreed. That's more of an internal meta because we had one person really getting hammered. YMMV. I've been