Re: Hidden Dir in URI (Was: FreeMail plugin updated - banks)

2010-03-08 Thread Ned Slider
Adam Katz wrote: On 15-May-2009, at 12:46, Adam Katz wrote: uri URI_HIDDEN /.{7}\/\../ LuKreme wrote: That won't catch http://www.spammer.example.com/.../hidden-malware.asf, it will only catch the relative url form ../path/to/content which SA improperly prefaces with http://; uri URI_HIDDEN

Re: Hidden Dir in URI (Was: FreeMail plugin updated - banks)

2010-03-08 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Ned Slider wrote: Adam Katz wrote: On 15-May-2009, at 12:46, Adam Katz wrote: uri URI_HIDDEN /.{7}\/\../ LuKreme wrote: That won't catch http://www.spammer.example.com/.../hidden-malware.asf, it will only catch the relative url form ../path/to/content

Re: Hidden Dir in URI (Was: FreeMail plugin updated - banks)

2010-03-08 Thread Ned Slider
John Hardin wrote: On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Ned Slider wrote: So I've refined the rule to specifically exclude hitting on the sequence ../. which stops the rule triggering on multiple relative paths. uriLOCAL_URI_HIDDEN_DIR/(?!.{6}\.\.\/\..).{8}\/\../ How about: uri

Re: Hidden Dir in URI (Was: FreeMail plugin updated - banks)

2010-03-08 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Ned Slider wrote: John Hardin wrote: On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Ned Slider wrote: So I've refined the rule to specifically exclude hitting on the sequence ../. which stops the rule triggering on multiple relative paths. uriLOCAL_URI_HIDDEN_DIR

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread Adam Stephens
LuKreme wrote: On 12-May-2009, at 18:27, John Hardin wrote: uri URI_HIDDEN/\/\../ Ah, that's very very nice. Scoring it at 3.0, too aggressive? I'd say so - I'm seeing lots of FPs on this, most prominently on mail from mail.elsevier-alerts.com --

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Adam Stephens wrote: LuKreme wrote: On 12-May-2009, at 18:27, John Hardin wrote: uri URI_HIDDEN/\/\../ Ah, that's very very nice. Scoring it at 3.0, too aggressive? I'd say so - I'm seeing lots of FPs on this, most prominently on mail from

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread Ned Slider
Adam Stephens wrote: LuKreme wrote: On 12-May-2009, at 18:27, John Hardin wrote: uri URI_HIDDEN/\/\../ Ah, that's very very nice. Scoring it at 3.0, too aggressive? I'd say so - I'm seeing lots of FPs on this, most prominently on mail from mail.elsevier-alerts.com I

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread Ned Slider
John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 15 May 2009, Adam Stephens wrote: LuKreme wrote: On 12-May-2009, at 18:27, John Hardin wrote: uri URI_HIDDEN/\/\../ Ah, that's very very nice. Scoring it at 3.0, too aggressive? I'd say so - I'm seeing lots of FPs on this, most prominently on mail

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Ned Slider wrote: Adam Stephens wrote: LuKreme wrote: On 12-May-2009, at 18:27, John Hardin wrote: uri URI_HIDDEN/\/\../ Ah, that's very very nice. Scoring it at 3.0, too aggressive? I'd say so - I'm seeing lots of FPs on this, most prominently

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread Ned Slider
John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 15 May 2009, Ned Slider wrote: Adam Stephens wrote: LuKreme wrote: On 12-May-2009, at 18:27, John Hardin wrote: uri URI_HIDDEN/\/\../ Ah, that's very very nice. Scoring it at 3.0, too aggressive? I'd say so - I'm seeing lots of FPs on this,

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread Adam Katz
John Hardin wrote: http://pastebin.com/m1268fbe6 Thanks. Here's the problematic URI: http://../cd.asp?i=572550545UserID=4DFEDDHIIBCFBH55 in the unsunscribe link. Which was actually: a href=3D=22=2E= =2E/cd=2Easp?i=3D572550545=26UserID=3D4DFEDDHIIBCFBH55=22 And thus: a

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread Ned Slider
Adam Katz wrote: John Hardin wrote: http://pastebin.com/m1268fbe6 Thanks. Here's the problematic URI: http://../cd.asp?i=572550545UserID=4DFEDDHIIBCFBH55 in the unsunscribe link. Which was actually: a href=3D=22=2E= =2E/cd=2Easp?i=3D572550545=26UserID=3D4DFEDDHIIBCFBH55=22 And thus:

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread Adam Katz
Adam Katz wrote: Relative URIs are only safe when prefacing the URI. Requiring the protocol beforehand should do the trick. Since http://; is the implied protocol and is 8 chars, we get this: uri URI_HIDDEN /.{8}\/\../ Ned Slider wrote: Yep - that works great for me and I understand the

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Adam Katz wrote: Adam Katz wrote: Relative URIs are only safe when prefacing the URI. Requiring the protocol beforehand should do the trick. Since http://; is the implied protocol and is 8 chars, we get this: uri URI_HIDDEN /.{8}\/\../ Ned Slider wrote: Yep - that

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread Ned Slider
Adam Katz wrote: Adam Katz wrote: Relative URIs are only safe when prefacing the URI. Requiring the protocol beforehand should do the trick. Since http://; is the implied protocol and is 8 chars, we get this: uri URI_HIDDEN /.{8}\/\../ Ned Slider wrote: Yep - that works great for me and I

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread Adam Katz
John Hardin wrote: What about an explicit https://..; URI? I have no problem marking that as spam (you're thinking too hard). I should also have noted that while this works around the SA bug, it also ignores hidden dirs and files appearing early in relative paths, like a href=a.bc/.secret

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread LuKreme
On May 15, 2009, at 5:44, Adam Stephens adam.steph...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: LuKreme wrote: On 12-May-2009, at 18:27, John Hardin wrote: uri URI_HIDDEN/\/\../ Ah, that's very very nice. Scoring it at 3.0, too aggressive? I'd say so - I'm seeing lots of FPs on this, most

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread LuKreme
On 15-May-2009, at 12:46, Adam Katz wrote: uri URI_HIDDEN /.{7}\/\../ That won't catch http://www.spammer.example.com/.../hidden- malware.asf, it will only catch the relative url form ../path/to/ content which SA improperly prefaces with http://; uri URI_HIDDEN /.{8}\/\../ Will catch

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 15 May 2009, LuKreme wrote: On 15-May-2009, at 12:46, Adam Katz wrote: uri URI_HIDDEN /.{7}\/\../ That won't catch http://www.spammer.example.com/.../hidden-malware.asf, How so? That rule matches ple.com/.. in that URI. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread LuKreme
On 15-May-2009, at 14:35, LuKreme wrote: On 15-May-2009, at 12:46, Adam Katz wrote: uri URI_HIDDEN /.{7}\/\../ That won't catch http://www.spammer.example.com/.../hidden- malware.asf, it will only catch the relative url form ../path/to/ content which SA improperly prefaces with http://;

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 15 May 2009, LuKreme wrote: Of course, if SA didn't preface URIs with http:// on its own, this wouldn't be an issue. However, I am not willing to call that a bug as I suspect there is a very good reason for it. It's a bug in the specific case of a URI like ../whatever, as it doesn't

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread Adam Katz
On 15-May-2009, at 12:46, Adam Katz wrote: uri URI_HIDDEN /.{7}\/\../ LuKreme wrote: That won't catch http://www.spammer.example.com/.../hidden-malware.asf, it will only catch the relative url form ../path/to/content which SA improperly prefaces with http://; uri URI_HIDDEN /.{8}\/\../

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-13 Thread Ned Slider
Ned Slider wrote: uriLOCAL_URI_PHISH_UK3 m{https?://.{1,40}/.{1,60}\.(ac|co|gov)\.uk} describeLOCAL_URI_PHISH_UK3contains obfuscated UK phish link of form example.com/bank.co.uk Ah, this rule hits on unsubscribe links etc, which wasn't what was intended. For example:

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-13 Thread neil
Hi; Ned Slider wrote: First up, from Mike's inspiration above, I came up with these: I took your rule and added some meta rules to it. I'm getting hits on phishes, but I haven't seen any legitimate traffic hit it. This may be that I have not seen any real bank mail or it could be that it

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-13 Thread Ned Slider
neil wrote: Hi; Ned Slider wrote: First up, from Mike's inspiration above, I came up with these: I took your rule and added some meta rules to it. I'm getting hits on phishes, but I haven't seen any legitimate traffic hit it. This may be that I have not seen any real bank mail or it could be

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-12 Thread neil
Hi; Ned Slider wrote: snip My point is it's really not easy to track down such information even when banks do occasionally try to do the right thing. Maybe there is already a list out there. If not, maybe we should compile one? It's hard work trying to do it by yourself, but done as a group

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-12 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 19:36 -0700, John Hardin wrote: On Tue, 12 May 2009, Ned Slider wrote: Then you get phish where the From address is a bank domain, and the envelope address is from a completely unrelated domain with a valid spf record so even a simple From_Bank spf_pass isn't

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-12 Thread LuKreme
On 11-May-2009, at 17:20, Marc Perkel wrote: mouss wrote: Is phishing really a problem for banks? I don't think so. You're kidding right? No, he has a point. The people with the problem are the customers. The bank is at best neutral and at worst couldn't care less. Also, despite the

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 12 May 2009, LuKreme wrote: On 11-May-2009, at 17:20, Marc Perkel wrote: mouss wrote: Is phishing really a problem for banks? I don't think so. You're kidding right? No, he has a point. The people with the problem are the customers. The bank is at best neutral and at worst couldn't

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-12 Thread mouss
Marc Perkel a écrit : mouss wrote: Is phishing really a problem for banks? I don't think so. (I'll forgive you for snipping the rest of the paragraph, and thus isolating a single phrase which was part of a context...). You're kidding right? No. I never heard of a bank losing money

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-12 Thread mouss
John Hardin a écrit : On Tue, 12 May 2009, Ned Slider wrote: Then you get phish where the From address is a bank domain, and the envelope address is from a completely unrelated domain with a valid spf record so even a simple From_Bank spf_pass isn't going to work. That might make a

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-12 Thread Ned Slider
Mike Cardwell wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: Or maybe I'm trying to reinvent a wheel someone already has up and running :-) a bank without SPF or DKIM signing is NOT worth using Yes - but I think what he's saying is that you have to start with a list of bank domains, the test those domains

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-12 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 13 May 2009, Ned Slider wrote: uri LOCAL_URI_HIDDEN_DIRm{https?://.{1,40}/\.\w} describe LOCAL_URI_HIDDEN_DIR contains hidden directory of form example.com/.something the fourth might be indicative of a hacked server with a hidden phishing directory. Any comments?

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-12 Thread Ned Slider
John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 13 May 2009, Ned Slider wrote: uriLOCAL_URI_HIDDEN_DIRm{https?://.{1,40}/\.\w} describeLOCAL_URI_HIDDEN_DIRcontains hidden directory of form example.com/.something the fourth might be indicative of a hacked server with a hidden phishing

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-12 Thread LuKreme
On 12-May-2009, at 18:27, John Hardin wrote: uri URI_HIDDEN/\/\../ Ah, that's very very nice. Scoring it at 3.0, too aggressive? -- No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always go there first, and is waiting for it.

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-11 Thread Mike Cardwell
Marc Perkel wrote: Or maybe I'm trying to reinvent a wheel someone already has up and running :-) a bank without SPF or DKIM signing is NOT worth using Yes - but I think what he's saying is that you have to start with a list of bank domains, the test those domains with higher scrutiny.

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-11 Thread Ned Slider
Mike Cardwell wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: Yes - but I think what he's saying is that you have to start with a list of bank domains, the test those domains with higher scrutiny. Does such a list exist? One of my users was getting a lot of spam pretending to be from banks. I ended up just

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-11 Thread Mike Cardwell
Ned Slider wrote: Yes - but I think what he's saying is that you have to start with a list of bank domains, the test those domains with higher scrutiny. Does such a list exist? One of my users was getting a lot of spam pretending to be from banks. I ended up just compiling a regular

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-11 Thread Ned Slider
Mike Cardwell wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Yes - but I think what he's saying is that you have to start with a list of bank domains, the test those domains with higher scrutiny. Does such a list exist? One of my users was getting a lot of spam pretending to be from banks. I ended up just

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-11 Thread LuKreme
On 11-May-2009, at 03:11, Ned Slider wrote: My thinking is that combined as a meta with a few simple keywords/ phrases (eg, alert, security, account suspended etc) it might make a very effective rule against bank phish. The only thing that needs to be done to prevent bank phish is to check

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-11 Thread mouss
Ned Slider a écrit : [snip] I would really like to see the creation of a tld along the lines of .bank, and make it like .gov or .edu (ac.uk) where only confirmed banks and financial institutions can register such domains. my $devil{advocate}-mode = $status-enabled; and after banks,

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-11 Thread jp
In the meantime I'm left working on the basis that for the large part, banks simply don't send email to my clients so *any* email claiming to be from a bank is immediately highly suspicious and could probably be scored well on the way to being spam. I personally use dedicated

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-11 Thread Marc Perkel
mouss wrote: Is phishing really a problem for banks? I don't think so. You're kidding right?

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-11 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Marc Perkel wrote: mouss wrote: Is phishing really a problem for banks? I don't think so. You're kidding right? I think mouss' point is that if banks considered phishing their problem they would be pursuing effective technological and policy solutions like proper

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-11 Thread Ned Slider
John Hardin wrote: On Mon, 11 May 2009, Marc Perkel wrote: mouss wrote: Is phishing really a problem for banks? I don't think so. You're kidding right? I think mouss' point is that if banks considered phishing their problem they would be pursuing effective technological and policy

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-11 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 12 May 2009, Ned Slider wrote: Then you get phish where the From address is a bank domain, and the envelope address is from a completely unrelated domain with a valid spf record so even a simple From_Bank spf_pass isn't going to work. That might make a useful general rule, though:

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-10 Thread Marc Perkel
Benny Pedersen wrote: On Sun, May 10, 2009 13:15, Ned Slider wrote: Or maybe I'm trying to reinvent a wheel someone already has up and running :-) a bank without SPF or DKIM signing is NOT worth using Yes - but I think what he's saying is that you have to start with a list of