Re: What can one do abut outlook.com?

2020-10-25 Thread John Hardin
for them to reel in victims via that contact address. The fact that after five months of reporting that contact address they are still using it to lure victims strongly suggests to me that google is ignoring such reports. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin

Re: What can one do abut outlook.com?

2020-10-24 Thread John Hardin
On Sat, 24 Oct 2020, Benny Pedersen wrote: John skrev den 2020-10-24 21:30: A regular source of spam is outlook.com; is spamassassin say is not spam ? in that case: blacklist_from *@outlook.com ...and then whitelist specific desireable-correspondent outlook.com addresses. -- John

Re: Google Docs spam and __URI_GOOGLE_DOC

2020-10-16 Thread John Hardin
to pastebin and post their URIs here so that we can see what they look like, that would be very helpful. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76

Re: SV: Character encoding in Report Templates

2020-10-15 Thread John Hardin
Thanks Tim Wetterek Andersson Digitaliseringsavdelningen, Norrköpings kommun Telefon/SMS: +46725935115 -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: John Hardin Skickat: den 22 september 2020 19:51 Till: users@spamassassin.apache.org Ämne: Re: Character encoding in Report Templates On Tue, 22 Sep 2020, Tim We

Re: The most efficient SPAM implementation ever

2020-10-11 Thread John Hardin
out actual samples of the spam, there's nothing anyone else can do to help figure out why SA isn't catching it and how it might get caught. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E

Re: spamhaus.net. type=A class=IN) failed: a domain name contains a null label

2020-10-06 Thread John Hardin
/spamassassin Riccardo and see no extra '.' anywhere. Do you find a urirhssub line for {anything}dbl.dq.spamhaus.net there? Did you check *all* of the local .cf files? -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk

Re: spamhaus.net. type=A class=IN) failed: a domain name contains a null label

2020-10-06 Thread John Hardin
the cause, then it might be worthwhile to open a bug to strip leading dot(s) from urirhssub config lines to avoid this, or at least generate a lint warning if they are present. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pg

Re: spamhaus.net. type=A class=IN) failed: a domain name contains a null label

2020-10-06 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, Chris wrote: On Tue, 2020-10-06 at 18:54 -0700, John Hardin wrote: On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, Chris wrote: The complete error looks like this: spamd[435769]: dns: new_dns_packet (domain=o279.send.iheartdogs.com..xx/dbl.dq .spamhaus.net. type=A class

Re: spamhaus.net. type=A class=IN) failed: a domain name contains a null label

2020-10-06 Thread John Hardin
That was converted from a warning to an info, so it looks like your SA version may be a bit stale. I don't think we ever pulled the trigger on normalizing ".." ⇒ "." for URIBL lookups as a URL with a malformed FQDN like that doesn't work in a browser. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ

Re: mark emails as being spam originating from an ip range owner

2020-09-29 Thread John Hardin
block connections from hostile ASNs. Hostile email sources should be TCP tarpitted. :) -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79

Re: mark emails as being spam originating from an ip range owner

2020-09-29 Thread John Hardin
? If the latter, then the most efficient approach is to tell your MTA to reject SMTP sessions from that IP block with an appropriate message. Avoid the SA scanning overhead entirely. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org

Re: 1.6 FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA Forged mail pretending to be from Mozilla

2020-09-23 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 23 Sep 2020, Jerry Malcolm wrote: On 9/23/2020 12:46 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 23 Sep 2020, Jerry Malcolm wrote: I am sending test emails from one of my hosting environments to another of my hosting environments.  I get this line in the SA report: 1.6 FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA

Re: 1.6 FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA Forged mail pretending to be from Mozilla

2020-09-23 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 23 Sep 2020, Grant Taylor wrote: On 9/23/20 11:46 AM, John Hardin wrote: It doesn't believe the Message-ID was generated by Thunderbird. What's the message ID? This piques my interest because I tell Thunderbird to use a custom Message-ID domain. Where can I read more about what

Re: 1.6 FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA Forged mail pretending to be from Mozilla

2020-09-23 Thread John Hardin
from Mozilla. But it is not forged mail pretending to be from Mozilla. What is triggering this? meta FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA (__MOZILLA_MUA && !__UNUSABLE_MSGID && !__MOZILLA_MSGID) It doesn't believe the Message-ID was generated by Thunderbird. What's the message ID?

Re: Character encoding in Report Templates

2020-09-22 Thread John Hardin
verbatim? Explicit hex values shouldn't be needed. See the report lines of this for example: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPAMASSASSIN/TranslateFrench -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...

Re: blacklisting the likes of sendgrid, mailgun, mailchimp etc.

2020-09-18 Thread John Hardin
for compromised sendgrid user IDs. See the thread starting at: https://marc.info/?l=spamassassin-users=159803815425176=2 -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411

Re: Why is SENDGRID_REDIR score so high?

2020-09-15 Thread John Hardin
(zipped, with all message headers intact) then I might be able to do a better job of that. As a workaround, you could whitelist the spiceworks.com help desk email address. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org

Re: Check HELO

2020-09-14 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 14 Sep 2020, Bill Cole wrote: On 14 Sep 2020, at 11:22, John Hardin wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 2020, Philipp Ewald wrote: Does anyone else checks the HELO/ELHO? I don't check for FCrDNS explicitly, but I do reject non-FQDN HELO strings (e.g. no dots present) from the Internet

Re: Check HELO

2020-09-14 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 14 Sep 2020, Philipp Ewald wrote: Does anyone else checks the HELO/ELHO? I don't check for FCrDNS explicitly, but I do reject non-FQDN HELO strings (e.g. no dots present) from the Internet. That catches a surprising percentage of garbage up front. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ

Re: questions on spamassassin

2020-09-05 Thread John Hardin
hat MTA you're using, perhaps the list can provide suggestions for that approach. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: The NEW invaluement "Service Provider DNSBLs" - 1st one for Sendgrid-spams!

2020-08-26 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 25 Aug 2020, Rob McEwen wrote: On 8/25/2020 11:04 PM, John Hardin wrote: I just wrote something similar to generate a rule, in case for some reason you don't want to use a plugin. Let me know if there's any interest in it. yes - please share! http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: The NEW invaluement "Service Provider DNSBLs" - 1st one for Sendgrid-spams!

2020-08-25 Thread John Hardin
a rule, in case for some reason you don't want to use a plugin. Let me know if there's any interest in it. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C

RE: Amazon, dhl, fedex, etc. phishing

2020-08-24 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 24 Aug 2020, micah anderson wrote: John Hardin writes: On Mon, 24 Aug 2020, Marc Roos wrote: You should use spf for this. Duh. +1 whitelist_auth *@amazon.com blacklist_from *@amazon.com whitelist_auth *@*.amazon.com blacklist_from

Re: Amazon, dhl, fedex, etc. phishing

2020-08-24 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 24 Aug 2020, Martin Gregorie wrote: On Mon, 2020-08-24 at 11:51 -0700, John Hardin wrote: Might want some \b in there, just to be safe. The from check would also hit domains like "amazon-river.org". Perhaps: header SUBRULE13a From:name =~ /\bAmazon\b/ header SUBRULE13b

RE: Amazon, dhl, fedex, etc. phishing

2020-08-24 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 24 Aug 2020, Marc Roos wrote: You should use spf for this. Duh. +1 whitelist_auth *@amazon.com blacklist_from *@amazon.com whitelist_auth *@*.amazon.com blacklist_from *@*.amazon.com -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp

Re: Amazon, dhl, fedex, etc. phishing

2020-08-24 Thread John Hardin
ays has "amazon" in the sender name. Perhaps: meta SUBRULE13 SUBRULE13a && !SUBRULE13b -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-22 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Thursday, August 20, 2020 5:30 PM -0700 John Hardin wrote: Fix committed. Where will this show up? It will probably be published tonight. I just got one

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-21 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Thursday, August 20, 2020 5:30 PM -0700 John Hardin wrote: Fix committed. Where will this show up? It will probably be published tonight. I just got one with this tag: Another: OK

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-21 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Thursday, August 20, 2020 5:30 PM -0700 John Hardin wrote: Fix committed. Where will this show up? It will probably be published tonight. I just got one with this tag: Another: OK, it doesn't catch those. One more fix coming

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-21 Thread John Hardin
don't seem to catch this. lzdtec On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: I have noticed those some time ago. I wonder what's the point of sending such mail. On 21.08.20 09:21, John Hardin wrote: It's an attempt to obstruct spam detection via naïve text matching in the raw HTML

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-21 Thread John Hardin
r to avoid arousing suspicion. The other approach (as reported here) is to break up the body text like so: spammy words Scanning for "spammy words" in the raw HTML is defeated, but rendering the text as the user would see it before doing the scanning yields: spammy text ...which hi

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-21 Thread John Hardin
being scanned. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-20 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 20 Aug 2020, John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 20 Aug 2020, Loren Wilton wrote: I've started receiving a bunch of spam or more likely phish mails that contain the following sort of trash in large quantities between almost every word of the visible text. The invisible font rules don't seem

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-20 Thread John Hardin
on it... Thanks. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79

Re: linter ignores ifplugin

2020-08-11 Thread John Hardin
assin --lint" in a loop, oncxe for each plugin. On Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 00:09 John Hardin wrote: On Mon, 10 Aug 2020, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: Yeah, I saw that. It's *possible* that I don't see the problem because I'm running my sandbox lint tests against trunk, where the capabilities do

Re: linter ignores ifplugin

2020-08-10 Thread John Hardin
-update or a lint check. What the heck, then? I wonder why I'm not getting that error... -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873

Re: linter ignores ifplugin

2020-08-10 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 10 Aug 2020, Matthias Rieber wrote: Hello John, On Fri, 7 Aug 2020, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 7 Aug 2020, Matthias Rieber wrote: I'm wondering if the linter is supposed to respect the ifplugin statement. I've disabled the Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::WLBLEval module and this leads

Re: linter ignores ifplugin

2020-08-07 Thread John Hardin
that. Are you sure the plugin is really disabled? -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79

Re: Spamassassin not triggering on LMTP mail

2020-08-05 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 5 Aug 2020, Guido Goluke, MajorLabel wrote: Sorry, I have no idea what you mean by 'backscatter' or 'making the problem bigger for the world'. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=email+backscatter -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org

Re: [Bug 7826] Improve language around whitelist/blacklist and master/slave

2020-08-03 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 3 Aug 2020, John Wilcock wrote: On 2020-08-01 21:23, bugzilla-dae...@spamassassin.apache.org wrote: https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7826 --- Comment #58 from Kevin A. McGrail --- (In reply to John Hardin from comment #57) (In reply to Kevin A. McGrail from

Re: Constructive solution to the blacklist thread

2020-07-25 Thread John Hardin
ther. If this project was being written from scratch, "red", "amber" and "green" *would* be appropriate terminology to use for the concepts. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar

Re: BIMI pilot at Google

2020-07-24 Thread John Hardin
ge itself? If not, what is to prevent a spammer from obtaining all the needed certificates, and then changing the logo image they are hosting to match the entity they are spoofing? -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pg

Re: Why the new changes need to be "depricated" forever

2020-07-22 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 22 Jul 2020, Charles Sprickman wrote: Rather than tolerate the tiniest of changes you throw a tantrum. This is not a tiny change. I had hoped it would be, which is why I supported it in the initial PMC vote, but it's becoming clear to me I was overly optimistic. -- John Hardin

Re: IMPORTANT NOTICE: Rules referencing WHITELIST or BLACKLIST in process of being Renamed

2020-07-20 Thread John Hardin
hedge by saying "(potentially) subject to renaming". -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6

Re: IMPORTANT NOTICE: Rules referencing WHITELIST or BLACKLIST in process of being Renamed

2020-07-20 Thread John Hardin
A 4.0 (i.e. it will not be dropped before the first release occurring after that year has passed). -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6

Re: IMPORTANT NOTICE: Rules referencing WHITELIST or BLACKLIST in process of being Renamed

2020-07-20 Thread John Hardin
and are currently disabled; they are included for completeness.) It would be helpful if we could be informed whether anyone has post-SA processing that looks for these rulenames in the SA hit results, e.g. for making message delivery decisions. Thank you. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp

Re: IMPORTANT NOTICE: Rules referencing WHITELIST or BLACKLIST in process of being Renamed

2020-07-19 Thread John Hardin
re working on addressing this, it should be a temporary condition. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4

Re: Thanks to Guardian Digital & LinuxSecurity for the nice post about SpamAssassin's upcoming change

2020-07-16 Thread John Hardin
-- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 --- The one

Re: IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR PEOPLE RUNNING TRUNK re: [Bug 7826] Improve language around whitelist/blacklist and master/slave

2020-07-12 Thread John Hardin
* reason for the change, and there are good technical reasons for *not* making the change (at least, not precipitously). -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411

RE: Linux, Twitter, Mysql, Github, etc, all plan to remove blacklist and whitelist, master and slave.

2020-07-11 Thread John Hardin
1000 BC in chinese culture yin yang ;) Oooo, *good* point. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79

Re: IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR PEOPLE RUNNING TRUNK re: [Bug 7826] Improve language around whitelist/blacklist and master/slave

2020-07-11 Thread John Hardin
On Sat, 11 Jul 2020, jdow wrote: I do not demand 50% of my peers be women. I simply demand that 100% of my peers carry their load. For THAT I am a racist fascist. Snarf! -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk

Re: IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR PEOPLE RUNNING TRUNK re: [Bug 7826] Improve language around whitelist/blacklist and master/slave

2020-07-10 Thread John Hardin
. This should help minimize the disruption when 4.0 is released with the new configuration options. Regards, KAM -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C

Re: IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR PEOPLE RUNNING TRUNK re: [Bug 7826] Improve language around whitelist/blacklist and master/slave

2020-07-10 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 10 Jul 2020, jdow wrote: And if you REALLY want a hair raising read dig around for a copy of William Shirer's "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich." Then tell me there is no resemblance at all between that and current events. I *so* do not want to read that book again...

Re: IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR PEOPLE RUNNING TRUNK re: [Bug 7826] Improve language around whitelist/blacklist and master/slave

2020-07-10 Thread John Hardin
d Fixing what works is as fine a way to introduce new faults in the code as I can think of. I am rethinking my +1 vote for this change. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E

Re: Multiple regex on same URL

2020-07-07 Thread John Hardin
otentially backtrack over. I suggest the positive match first, then the negative match, as the positive match will probably occur in only a small percentage of URIs scanned and will thus generally fail and shortcircuit the evaluation of the (much more likely to hit) negative lookforward matc

Re: Multiple regex on same URL

2020-07-07 Thread John Hardin
he (?=...)(?!...) construct is better. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79

Re: Rule HK_SCAM is triggered by standard business email

2020-07-01 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 1 Jul 2020, Aner Perez wrote: On 7/1/20 3:52 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 1 Jul 2020, Aner Perez wrote: I opened a bug (7832) about this but was told to report on the SA users mailing list instead. The attached email is an example which triggers the HK_SCAM rule.  Looks like

Re: Rule HK_SCAM is triggered by standard business email

2020-07-01 Thread John Hardin
the URL to it here. (In this case, your description should probably be enough to figure it out without the sample so you shouldn't need to do that unless someone explicitly asks you to do so.) -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALah

Re: Frequency of SUSP_NTLD updates

2020-07-01 Thread John Hardin
at's *too* generous) for the TLDs (or if possible the specific domains in those TLDs) that are causing problems. I realize this isn't really a welcome solution per the original note but until the legitimate use of those TLDs grows the rules punishing them do have value. -- John Hardin KA

Re: Freshdesk (again)

2020-06-27 Thread John Hardin
away. They do, however, apparently care about phishing - they did disable the sendgrid redirect that some phisher has been spamming at me for the last three weeks. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar

Re: Slipping through the cracks

2020-06-19 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 19 Jun 2020, micah anderson wrote: John Hardin writes: On Fri, 19 Jun 2020, micah anderson wrote: So, what can I do to tweak these rules to score things up more, specifically the rules that provide a low false positive rate[1]. This seems something that should be done

Re: Slipping through the cracks

2020-06-19 Thread John Hardin
in the last 24-48 hours? Potentially relax it a bit by collecting on /30 or /28 netblocks instead of individual /32 IP addresses. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79

Re: How to write a rule to block phishing?

2020-06-19 Thread John Hardin
t feature isn't fairly common in spam that makes it into the masscheck repos then the rule might not be performing well enough to be promoted for publication. Adjusting the spam threshold is generally only something you do if you really understand what's going on. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ

Re: homograph spam

2020-06-17 Thread John Hardin
/\s(?!mazon)/i replace_rules FUZZY_AMAZON describe FUZZY_AMAZON Obfuscated "Amazon" endif -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411

Re: How to write a rule to block phishing?

2020-06-15 Thread John Hardin
too. Bayes (after training) should help a lot with those if they contain obfuscated words. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4

Yahoo abuse contacts?

2020-06-11 Thread John Hardin
Does any list denizen have direct connections into Yahoo? Their abuse@ and postmaster@ addresses have been undeliverable for a week or two, apparently due to a misconfiguration. I've tried reporting it via their web page but haven't gotten any response yet. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ

Re: Spamass milter question

2020-05-28 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 27 May 2020, LuKreme wrote: On May 27, 2020, at 20:08, John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2020, @lbutlr wrote: On 27 May 2020, at 18:27, RW wrote: I should have added that if whitelist_from_rcvd *@* server.example.com (without the colon) is only only failing occasionally on mail

Re: Spamass milter question

2020-05-27 Thread John Hardin
to skip SA entirely for that IP. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79

Re: shortcircuit internal mail

2020-05-19 Thread John Hardin
. You'll need to provide more-specific information about which MTA you're using before we can provide more-specific advice than that. Also be aware: "short-circuit" in the SA context doesn't *quite* mean what you're asking. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.or

Re: base64 encoded sextorsion

2020-05-07 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 7 May 2020, RW wrote: On Thu, 7 May 2020 11:39:07 -0700 (PDT) John Hardin wrote: 100% 4-byte UTF8? That should be trivially easy to detect. Comments solicited. body __4BYTE_UTF8_WORD /(?:\xf0\x9d[\x9a-\x9f][\x80-\xff]){3,10}/ tflags __4BYTE_UTF8_WORD multiple, maxhits

Re: base64 encoded sextorsion

2020-05-07 Thread John Hardin
ting the bitcoin wallet ID. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873

Re: base64 encoded sextorsion

2020-05-07 Thread John Hardin
phs that render readable English text. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2

Re: another extortion email check

2020-05-04 Thread John Hardin
a token in Bayes as causing an automatic 1.000 then that might be a usable approach. (Granted, it's not encrypted.) -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507

Re: another extortion email check

2020-05-04 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 4 May 2020, Grant Taylor wrote: On 5/4/20 2:51 PM, John Hardin wrote: *if* they are being actively used for authentication, either by the security system (which is a glaring flaw in the design of the security system) or as a reference for accessing the secured resource (e.g

Re: another extortion email check

2020-05-04 Thread John Hardin
~= /\x50\x40\x73\x73\x77\x30\x72\x7c\x29/ ...which would at least not have the password trivially visible in plain text for anyone who can read the config file. (You'd of course, not use a rule name that indicated it was about a password.) -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www

Re: another extortion email check

2020-05-01 Thread John Hardin
t's what I do. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79

Re: base64 encoded sextorsion

2020-04-22 Thread John Hardin
. {rolleyes} -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79

Re: URI is counted two times

2020-03-28 Thread John Hardin
nd getting scores for both hits is totally legitimate. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6

Re: __BITCOIN_ID doesn't test for SegWit addresses that start with bc1

2020-03-14 Thread John Hardin
-types-and-meaning/ I guess the definition of __BITCOIN_ID needs to updated to include this format.  Thanks. Underway. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4

Re: From Spoofed

2020-02-25 Thread John Hardin
mail can be more reliably determined to actually *be* from that domain? If not, implementing that may be a benefit. Then you can score higher any mail from that domain that is NOT signed or that fails SPF... -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@

Re: Bayes files LOCK

2020-02-14 Thread John Hardin
iter lock, just write locks for the toks and seen files. As scans defer their writes through the journal they are lockless. So, auto-training may be problematic w/r/t locking as well. I presume that window is coded to be as small as possible. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ

Re: Bayes files LOCK

2020-02-12 Thread John Hardin
in "EXclusive mode", hence when a sa takes too long, all other processes have to wait for the lock... This is my config: use_bayes 1bayes_path /etc/spamassassin/bayes/bayesbayes_auto_learn 0bayes_auto_expire 0lock_method flock Turn off Bayes auto-expire and do that in a cron job.

Re: Spamassassin RPM for Centos 7

2020-02-07 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 7 Feb 2020, Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Thursday, February 06, 2020 2:30 PM -0800 John Hardin wrote: The RPM is available here, assuming you trust me: http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/antispam/centos7/ 3.4.4 is now available as well, I've been running it for about a day now and I

Re: rpm of centos

2020-02-07 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 6 Feb 2020, Amir Caspi wrote: On Jan 11, 2020, at 11:14 AM, John Hardin wrote: I found one very minor modification was needed: the spec file requires "perl-interpreter" and that doesn't seem to see the "perl" package installed under Centos 7. Ah, now I rec

Spamassassin RPM for Centos 7

2020-02-06 Thread John Hardin
On Sat, 11 Jan 2020, John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 9 Jan 2020, Amir Caspi wrote: On Jan 9, 2020, at 6:59 PM, Rick Gutierrez wrote: Hi everyone, someone from the list who can share the rpm of the latest version of spamassassin for centos 7 and 6 of x64, I want to update to the latest version

Re: __DOS_DIRECT_TO_MX false positive

2020-01-30 Thread John Hardin
e: 4.351 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=4.351 tagged_above=-9 required=6.31 That a given rule hits on some ham does not make the rule a FP. This rule is working as designed. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaho

Re: ANNOUNCE: Apache SpamAssassin 3.4.4 available

2020-01-30 Thread John Hardin
get upates"? are you aware that some distro maintainers prefer to backport security fixes to former versions to prevent from functional surprises? Then they would presumably backport the SHA-256 checksum handling, as it is a security issue... -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp:

Re: ANNOUNCE: Apache SpamAssassin 3.4.4 available

2020-01-29 Thread John Hardin
, is it that hard to provide sha-1 signatures together with sha256? It's not hard to do that. It's insecure. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C

RE: Question on Rule

2020-01-28 Thread John Hardin
heir mail client (or bulk mail tool if it's a bulk mail). -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D82

Re: rpm of centos

2020-01-11 Thread John Hardin
e here, assuming you trust me: http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/antispam/centos7/ -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76

Re: How to block reverse hostname

2020-01-10 Thread John Hardin
from those IP addresses, add them to an IP blacklist in your MTA so they get rejected up front. Why accept the SA processing overhead? -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79

Re: Two types of new spam

2020-01-04 Thread John Hardin
On Sat, 4 Jan 2020, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 3 Jan 2020, RW wrote: On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 15:29:40 -0700 Philip Prindeville wrote: On Jan 3, 2020, at 11:34 AM, RW wrote: On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 10:09:21 -0800 (PST) John Hardin wrote: Try this instead, to actually match the header(s

Re: Two types of new spam

2020-01-04 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 3 Jan 2020, RW wrote: On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 15:29:40 -0700 Philip Prindeville wrote: On Jan 3, 2020, at 11:34 AM, RW wrote: On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 10:09:21 -0800 (PST) John Hardin wrote: Try this instead, to actually match the header(s): header __L_RECEIVED_SPF Received-SPF

Re: Two types of new spam

2020-01-04 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 3 Jan 2020, Philip Prindeville wrote: On Jan 3, 2020, at 11:34 AM, RW wrote: On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 10:09:21 -0800 (PST) John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 3 Jan 2020, Pedro David Marco wrote: header __L_RECEIVED_SPFexists:Received-SPF tflags __L_RECEIVED_SPFmultiple

Re: Two types of new spam

2020-01-03 Thread John Hardin
SPF            20.0 but it never seems to match. "exists" is a boolean, it's reasonable that it only returns one hit regardless of the number of instances present. Try this instead, to actually match the header(s): header __L_RECEIVED_SPF       Received-SPF =~ /^./ -- John

Re: Bitcoin ransom mail

2019-12-19 Thread John Hardin
ge the hash without noticeably changing it visually. It might be prohibitive to do that per-message, but sending a batch of a hundred messages while you're modifying the image for the next batch would probably work. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@imp

Re: SPAM message format, or not ?

2019-12-18 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 18 Dec 2019, Lindsay Haisley wrote: I've been getting a lot of spams here with a format similar to: [snip] d171f2b7-af04-5a8-5a8-cee259c46b8f 9fc2adda-9160-c56-c56-feadd16b0acc cec5f152-fd8b-9a9-9a9-c5e5c0e676cb 3aaf4ded-e0ec-31d-31d-efec2dbb3f8a b4804f85-ac57-2d2-2d2-f1c275fd8a0f

Re: txrep duplicated key with postgresql

2019-12-09 Thread John Hardin
created. This sounds more like the "does that tuple already exist?" logic is failing, causing it to think it needs to create a new entry, which the unique key is (correctly) preventing. You don't lightly bypass unique keys. They are there for a reason. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ

Re: False positives due to __BITCOIN_ID

2019-12-03 Thread John Hardin
I'm open to suggestions. Reverting for now. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6

Re: spamd 'exceeded time limit' inquiry

2019-11-30 Thread John Hardin
of the attachment? 2) Is the longer scan time of the 'bounce' message due to SpamAssassin scanning the attachment text lines in a way that it normally would not if it had recognized that it is an attachment? Question: was the message attached to the bounce *complete*? Or was it truncated? -- John Hardin

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