Ok, Ben and Cory, first one to respond gets a paycheck.

Cory Petkovsek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
>On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 11:10:50PM +0000, Bob Crandell wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The computer they are complaining about [216.239.175.40] is not
>> running sendmail or qmail, yet spamers are using it somehow.  Please
>> tell me there is enough information here to determine that they are
>> spoofing.  This computer is not supposed to be handling email at all.
>>
>> I'm trying to help this guy but I don't know enough to be very good at
>> it.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
>
>> > Received: from mail by f21.mail.ru with local
>> > id 19MDlt-000PpF-00
>> > for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 01 Jun 2003 01:20:13 +0400
>> > Received: from [216.239.175.40] by koi.mail.ru with HTTP;
>> > Sun, 01 Jun 2003 01:20:13 +0400
>> > From: "ipxsn_ln19umzu3 ipxsn_ln19umzu3" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > Subject:
>> >
>
>These are interesting lines.  Assuming we can trust what koi.mail.ru is
>saying, recieved with HTTP.  Looking at other mail headers I see these:
>local, smtp or esmtp.  Local would be something like what kbob talked
>about:
>$ cat spamfile | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>smtp/esmtp would be if one mta connects to another.  Notice that
>f21.mail.ru gets mail locally from "mail" right after koi.mail.ru
>receives it.  It is not an smtp/esmtp transfer.  I suspect then that
>they may be the same machine and the mail is being passed around outside
>of an mta (ie procmail or some script or webmail).  Looking up the ip
>addresses, they are different machines.  HTTP would probably be for
>webmail.
>
>> > X-Mailer: mPOP Web-Mail 2.19
>> > X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 via proxy [216.239.175.40]
>
>These are more interesting lines found in the mail header.  If
>koi.mail.ru is running webmail, specifically mPOP web-mail, then the
>originating ip makes sense.  I don't get the via proxy though, unless
>they add that to systems that connect to them and send mail.  This
>should be the originating ip though.
>
>Looking at koi.mail.ru, one sees it is a search engine, with maybe some
>other features such as mailing out.  I can't tell because it is all in
>russian.
>
>I think kbob's suggestion is right on.  I would look for zombies and
>worms on the box found at 216.239.175.40.
>
>Cory
>
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