> Yes, remove the outer parentheses.
>
> Here are the rules I am using:
> body    AE_MEDS35       /w{2,4}\s(?:meds|shop)\d{1,4}\s(?:net|com|org)/
> describe AE_MEDS35      obfuscated domain seen in spam
> score   AE_MEDS35       3.00
>
> body    AE_MEDS38       
> /\(\s?w{2,4}\s[[:alpha:]]{4}\d{1,4}\s(?:net|com|org)\s?\)/
> describe AE_MEDS38      rule to catch next wave of obfuscated domains
> score   AE_MEDS38       1.0
>
> body    AE_MEDS39       
> /\bw{2,3}[[:punct:][:space:]]{2,3}[[:alpha:]]{2,6}\d{2,6}[[:punct:][:space:]]{2,3}(?:c\s?o\s?m|n\s?e\s?t|o\s?r\s?g)\b/i
> describe AE_MEDS39      rule to catch still more spam obfuscation
> score   AE_MEDS39       4.0
>
> AE_MEDS38 finds domains with spaces in them, and AE_MEDS39 finds domains
> with dots and spaces.  You might want to bump up the score on AE_MEDS38,
> but I haven't had a false negative that would have benefited from it in
> a while, so I haven't bothered.
>
>
>

Very good!
Thanks a lot!

Regards and good week-end!

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Sim

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