Re: Is this a new typoe of URI obfuscation?

2012-06-12 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 03:04 +0200, Wolfgang Zeikat wrote: > On 2012-06-12 20:52, Martin Gregorie wrote: > > > so its probably worth treating .gg > > the same way as .cn and .ru, though for slightly different reasons. > > Unless you're in .cn, .ru or vicinity or have correspondence partners > t

Re: Is this a new typoe of URI obfuscation?

2012-06-12 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
On 2012-06-12 20:52, Martin Gregorie wrote: > so its probably worth treating .gg > the same way as .cn and .ru, though for slightly different reasons. Unless you're in .cn, .ru or vicinity or have correspondence partners there, you may be right. wolfgang

Re: Is this a new typoe of URI obfuscation?

2012-06-12 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 18:47 +0100, Stephane Chazelas wrote: > 2012-06-12 16:36:44 +0100, Martin Gregorie: > > Today I got a piece of spam carrying the URL chasovik.it.gg as its > > payload. I was intrigued because I didn't think .gg was a valid tld and > > looked it up with 'whois'. Sure enough, no

Re: Is this a new typoe of URI obfuscation?

2012-06-12 Thread Stephane Chazelas
2012-06-12 16:36:44 +0100, Martin Gregorie: > Today I got a piece of spam carrying the URL chasovik.it.gg as its > payload. I was intrigued because I didn't think .gg was a valid tld and > looked it up with 'whois'. Sure enough, no match was found. However, > 'host' resolved it as 80.190.202.40 and

RE: Is this a new type of URI obfuscation?

2012-06-12 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 17:24 +0100, s...@yacc.co.uk wrote: > .gg is Guernsey ... it's definitely there ... I can see it out the > window :) > Thanks for that clarification. I wasn't as clear as I could have been. The URL in the spam body was unknown to 'whois' but was resolved by 'host'. I've previ

RE: Is this a new typoe of URI obfuscation?

2012-06-12 Thread si
> From: Martin Gregorie [mailto:mar...@gregorie.org] > Sent: 12 June 2012 16:37 > To: Spamassassin users list > Subject: Is this a new typoe of URI obfuscation? > > Today I got a piece of spam carrying the URL chasovik.it.gg as its > payload. I was intrigued because I d

Re: Is this a new typoe of URI obfuscation?

2012-06-12 Thread Michael Scheidell
On 6/12/12 11:36 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote: Today I got a piece of spam carrying the URL chasovik.it.gg as its payload. I was intrigued because I didn't think .gg was a valid tld and looked it up with 'whois'. that just means that the tld provider is violating RFC's, no that the tld is invalid:

Re: Is this a new typoe of URI obfuscation?

2012-06-12 Thread David F. Skoll
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:36:44 +0100 Martin Gregorie wrote: > Today I got a piece of spam carrying the URL chasovik.it.gg as its > payload. I was intrigued because I didn't think .gg was a valid tld > and looked it up with 'whois'. Sure enough, no match was found. .gg is a valid TLD: http://en.wik

Is this a new typoe of URI obfuscation?

2012-06-12 Thread Martin Gregorie
Today I got a piece of spam carrying the URL chasovik.it.gg as its payload. I was intrigued because I didn't think .gg was a valid tld and looked it up with 'whois'. Sure enough, no match was found. However, 'host' resolved it as 80.190.202.40 and a 'host' lookup on the IP resolved to homepage-bauk

Re: uri obfuscation

2008-03-23 Thread Arvid Ephraim Picciani
On Sunday 23 March 2008 14:10:18 The Doctor wrote: > Where should this be added? to your custom rules. i suggest editing local.cf and adding the following line: include /etc/spamassassin/myrules then make that directory and put your custom rules in it (one file is one rule) you can also put all ru

Re: uri obfuscation

2008-03-23 Thread The Doctor
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 09:26:39PM -0400, Joseph Brennan wrote: > >> thats a dynamic ip from telecomitalia. i'm getting lots of spam from >> there but the ips are in no dynamic list. is there a more complete list >> of dynamic hosts? > > We are currently doing this: > > > # Telecomitalia. ISP wi

Re: uri obfuscation

2008-03-23 Thread Arvid Ephraim Picciani
On Sunday 23 March 2008 02:26:39 Joseph Brennan wrote: > > thats a dynamic ip from telecomitalia. i'm getting lots of spam from > > there but the ips are in no dynamic list. is there a more complete list > > of dynamic hosts? > > We are currently doing this: http://sarah.ibcsolutions.de/~aep/sa/7

Re: Forged Received headers and Message-Ids (was: Re: uri obfuscation)

2008-03-23 Thread Arvid Ephraim Picciani
On Saturday 22 March 2008 21:31:13 Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 19:31 +0100, Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: > > > http://rafb.net/p/S95P6c12.html > > Yes, this is a spam alright. The Message-Id alone tells so. See my rule > KB_RATWARE_MSGID in bug 5830 [1]. > [1] https://issues

Re: uri obfuscation

2008-03-22 Thread Joseph Brennan
thats a dynamic ip from telecomitalia. i'm getting lots of spam from there but the ips are in no dynamic list. is there a more complete list of dynamic hosts? We are currently doing this: # Telecomitalia. ISP with a big spam problem # A rare exception found had a .it tld sender, so let's

Re: uri obfuscation

2008-03-22 Thread mouss
mouss wrote: Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: On Saturday 22 March 2008 19:52:46 SM wrote: He was referring to the URL that is wrapped into two lines with the quoted-printable encoding. It is parsed correctly. so thats no error or invalid markup? ok well in this case... sorry for the fals

Re: uri obfuscation

2008-03-22 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
> you need to show the raw body. http://ec=xz... is invalid and results > in an error when I click on. even with quoted printable, it is still > invalid because '=' must be followed by hex characters (0-9a-fA-F). Dude, see the OP. :) He did provide the full, raw message. This very snippet is

Forged Received headers and Message-Ids (was: Re: uri obfuscation)

2008-03-22 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 19:31 +0100, Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: > > http://rafb.net/p/S95P6c12.html Yes, this is a spam alright. The Message-Id alone tells so. See my rule KB_RATWARE_MSGID in bug 5830 [1]. > second, i'd love to go and slap some ISPs a round a little for not even > having > an

Re: uri obfuscation

2008-03-22 Thread mouss
Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: On Saturday 22 March 2008 19:52:46 SM wrote: He was referring to the URL that is wrapped into two lines with the quoted-printable encoding. It is parsed correctly. so thats no error or invalid markup? ok well in this case... sorry for the false alert.

Re: uri obfuscation

2008-03-22 Thread SM
At 11:37 22-03-2008, Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: een">http://ec=xzpmi.oldbuild.cn/?175217540350";>Das b see the "="? imo it should be takes as spam sign. no sane person pasts such urls unless he/she intends to bypass url checks. The sender's MUA formats and encodes the message. The URL may

Re: uri obfuscation

2008-03-22 Thread Arvid Ephraim Picciani
On Saturday 22 March 2008 19:52:46 SM wrote: > He was referring to the URL that is wrapped into two lines with the > quoted-printable encoding. It is parsed correctly. so thats no error or invalid markup? ok well in this case... sorry for the false alert. -- best regards/Mit freundlichen Grüße

Re: uri obfuscation

2008-03-22 Thread SM
At 11:27 22-03-2008, Justin Mason wrote: what is the URL you think it's missing? He was referring to the URL that is wrapped into two lines with the quoted-printable encoding. It is parsed correctly. Regards, -sm

Re: uri obfuscation

2008-03-22 Thread Arvid Ephraim Picciani
On Saturday 22 March 2008 19:27:15 Justin Mason wrote: > works for me: > Content analysis details: (14.3 points, 5.0 required) wow that was fast. 5 minutes ago it was in none of those lists. now i get 14.8 points too. > what is the URL you think it's missing? that one: > Contains an URL list

Re: uri obfuscation

2008-03-22 Thread Arvid Ephraim Picciani
On Saturday 22 March 2008 19:10:03 Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: > http://rafb.net/p/S95P6c12.html i forgot two things: thats a dynamic ip from telecomitalia. i'm getting lots of spam from there but the ips are in no dynamic list. is there a more complete list of dynamic hosts? i've seen sorbs d

Re: uri obfuscation

2008-03-22 Thread Justin Mason
Arvid Ephraim Picciani writes: > Hi, > seems that spammers are leaving encoding characters in the urls to make SA > unable to parse it. my mailprogram (kmail currently) displays those urls > _without_ the leftovers. > http://rafb.net/p/S95P6c12.html > i suggest taking this kind of obfuscation as

uri obfuscation

2008-03-22 Thread Arvid Ephraim Picciani
Hi, seems that spammers are leaving encoding characters in the urls to make SA unable to parse it. my mailprogram (kmail currently) displays those urls _without_ the leftovers. http://rafb.net/p/S95P6c12.html i suggest taking this kind of obfuscation as a sign for spam (ie it should be in the de

Re: URI obfuscation that confuses SA

2006-11-18 Thread John D. Hardin
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Jeff Chan wrote: > It seems that the particular URI obfuscation in: > > http://www.surbl.org/evidence/seruikiontunhfasnde.com.txt > > successfully confuses SpamAssassin 3.1.6 into not detecting the > SURBL blacklisted URI. How about a rule that adds

RE: URI obfuscation that confuses SA

2006-11-18 Thread Michael Scheidell
> -Original Message- > From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 10:29 AM > To: Michael Scheidell > Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: URI obfuscation that confuses SA > >However, it's just doing a se

Re: URI obfuscation that confuses SA

2006-11-18 Thread Matt Kettler
Michael Scheidell wrote: > When I past that (with the munged) in it I get a nasa web site. > (maybe google built into firefox finds the nasa site) > > > http://8ZC*2/F3B.seruikiontuMUNGED.com/?LHN-+IA- > > > Scarry crap. > > Hey nasa: is this even something you want public? > I will send you link i

Re: URI obfuscation that confuses SA

2006-11-18 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Sat, November 18, 2006 14:45, Justin Mason wrote: > http://8ZC*2/F3B.seruikiontuMUNGED.com/?LHN-+IA- > > link > Surely that doesn't work. certainly doesn't with any of my MUAs! anyone > got a copy of Lookout or Outlook Express they can test with? fedora core 6 x86_64 firefox 1.5.0.8 display

RE: URI obfuscation that confuses SA

2006-11-18 Thread Michael Scheidell
. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 8:46 AM > To: Matt Kettler > Cc: Jeff Chan; SpamAssassin Users > Subject: Re: URI obfuscation that confuses SA > > > > Matt Kettler writes: > > Jeff

Re: URI obfuscation that confuses SA

2006-11-18 Thread Justin Mason
Matt Kettler writes: > Jeff Chan wrote: > > It seems that the particular URI obfuscation in: > > > > http://www.surbl.org/evidence/seruikiontunhfasnde.com.txt > > > > successfully confuses SpamAssassin 3.1.6 into not detecting the > > SURBL blacklisted UR

Re: URI obfuscation that confuses SA

2006-11-17 Thread Matt Kettler
Jeff Chan wrote: > It seems that the particular URI obfuscation in: > > http://www.surbl.org/evidence/seruikiontunhfasnde.com.txt > > successfully confuses SpamAssassin 3.1.6 into not detecting the > SURBL blacklisted URI. > Does that even work as a link? Doesn't

Re: New? URI obfuscation: backslash at end of URI

2005-05-17 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 03:53:38AM -0700, Jeff Chan wrote: > Apparently the backslash at the end of the URI throws off some > parsers such as (unpatched) 3.0.1. Hopefully the same patch that > catches just : at the end of URIs, etc. also catches these. Not really. 3.0 doesn't deal with it, 3.1 w

New? URI obfuscation: backslash at end of URI

2005-05-17 Thread Jeff Chan
Can someone check if 3.03 or 3.1 catches this URI obfuscation spotted in recent spams: http://hyahlarzvz96ckva9nsn9zvs9.tnashbsv.com\";>Check it Out Apparently the backslash at the end of the URI throws off some parsers such as (unpatched) 3.0.1. Hopefully the same pa

Re: URI obfuscation check

2004-09-17 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Jeff Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > SpamCop got fooled by this URI obfuscation, so I wrote them about > it. Would someone please feed it through SA to see if it handles > it correctly: It doesn't matter because the message had a score of 19. In 2.64, it had a score

Re: URI obfuscation check

2004-09-17 Thread Ryan Thompson
Jeff Chan wrote to SpamAssassin Users: Update on the previous, interestingly the HTML renderer in The Bat! 1.62q did not make the link clickable, but the plaintext message renderer did. That's because the HTML did not actually contain a link (anchor); just the plaintext URI. Many plaintext renderer

Re: URI obfuscation check

2004-09-17 Thread Jeff Chan
Update on the previous, interestingly the HTML renderer in The Bat! 1.62q did not make the link clickable, but the plaintext message renderer did. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

URI obfuscation check

2004-09-17 Thread Jeff Chan
SpamCop got fooled by this URI obfuscation, so I wrote them about it. Would someone please feed it through SA to see if it handles it correctly: __ CUT HERE __ Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from 66.170.1.10 ([221.139.191.210]) by smtp1.supranet.net (8.12.10/8.12.10