Re: NJABL is history

2013-03-01 Thread John Levine
>I'm assuming this means their feed into Zen and XBL has shut down, too? >If I'm wrong and that feed still exists, (anyone who knows...) please >reply to this post with that clarification. (would be interesting to know) The whole thing is kaput. The guy who was running it has a new job, there was

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 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

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 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 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?

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 hard

Re: NJABL is history

2013-03-01 Thread Rob McEwen
On 3/1/2013 5:52 PM, Axb wrote: > "Please spread the word. NJABL has to be shut down effective > immediately. I just emptied the dnsbl zone files. I'm assuming this means their feed into Zen and XBL has shut down, too? If I'm wrong and that feed still exists, (anyone who knows...) please reply t

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 domains

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 n

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 a

Re: NJABL is history

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Martinec
Axb wrote: > If you're using SA 3.4 trunk: > as temporary entry in local.cf > > # ONLY FOR SA 3.4 or higher!! > dns_query_restriction deny njabl.org Thanks for reminding us of the new feature! Wrapped up in a conditional, for those wishing to switch between versions while keeping the same .

Re: NJABL is history

2013-03-01 Thread Axb
On 03/01/2013 11:52 PM, Axb wrote: As per: https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6913 Just got the bad news: "Please spread the word. NJABL has to be shut down effective immediately. I just emptied the dnsbl zone files. My expectation is that the servers will be allowed to r

Re: NJABL is history

2013-03-01 Thread Axb
On 03/02/2013 12:25 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 3/1/2013 6:14 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: score RCVD_IN_NJABL_CGI 0 score RCVD_IN_NJABL_MULTI 0 score RCVD_IN_NJABL_PROXY 0 score RCVD_IN_NJABL_RELAY 0 score RCVD_IN_NJABL_SPAM 0 And score __RCVD_IN_NJABL 0 just in case... If you're using SA

Re: NJABL is history

2013-03-01 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 3/1/2013 6:14 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: score RCVD_IN_NJABL_CGI 0 score RCVD_IN_NJABL_MULTI 0 score RCVD_IN_NJABL_PROXY 0 score RCVD_IN_NJABL_RELAY 0 score RCVD_IN_NJABL_SPAM 0 And score __RCVD_IN_NJABL 0 just in case...

NJABL is history

2013-03-01 Thread Axb
As per: https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6913 Just got the bad news: "Please spread the word. NJABL has to be shut down effective immediately. I just emptied the dnsbl zone files. My expectation is that the servers will be allowed to run for some time so the shutdown

Re: Rule to check To and/or CC headers

2013-03-01 Thread Mark Martinec
> Another thing I'd like to do, if possible, is check to see if the "From" > address matches the "return path" and add to the spam score if they > do not match. The inverse rule is already there (just use a meta rule negation of it): header RP_MATCHES_RCVD eval:check_mailfrom_matches_rcvd() de

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 avoid

Re: Rule to check To and/or CC headers

2013-03-01 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Okey... Didn't catch that. Not a bad idea but cannot be a decision making thing. And need a plugin. I thought about that already but didn't had time to code this. And I don't remember who on this list brang objections that it would not be such a good idea. Plus: SA do not have access to SMTP in

Re: Rule to check To and/or CC headers

2013-03-01 Thread Anthony Hoppe
Yes! That's exactly it. Another thing I'd like to do, if possible, is check to see if the "From" address matches the "return path" and add to the spam score if they do not match. I know they won't match completely in some cases, but a way to check if the same pattern, u...@domain.com exists b

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 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 /http.{0,200}\d{1,2}:\d{1,2}:\d{1,2}/ meta RP_D

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 pa

Re: Rule to check To and/or CC headers

2013-03-01 Thread Dave Warren
On 3/1/2013 11:26, Alexandre Boyer wrote: There is no silly question. Just noobs. FYI: most of the time, I'm a noob. I do not understand your question: To or Cc headers are recipients. Do you want to compare the name portion to the address portion? eg: To: "Alex Boyer" If Alex matches the loc

Re: Rule to check To and/or CC headers

2013-03-01 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Hello, There is no silly question. Just noobs. FYI: most of the time, I'm a noob. I do not understand your question: To or Cc headers are recipients. Do you want to compare the name portion to the address portion? eg: To: "Alex Boyer" If Alex matches the local part in the address, then it's OK

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.

Rule to check To and/or CC headers

2013-03-01 Thread Anthony Hoppe
Hey All, I'm just starting to dive into advanced custom SA rules, so forgive me if this is a silly question. Is it possible to construct a rule that looks at the To and/or CC field and compares it to the recipient? I know this can be dangerous as legitimate email can be BCCed, but I think bei

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 r

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) an

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 fol

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

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" To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Friday, March 1, 2013 9:33:55 AM Subject: Re: Yahoo single link spam Somewhat OT... are peop

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 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://pa

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@s

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 > send