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RE: New Spam Technique
From: "Alison Hell" <ijwafea () gawab com>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:58:29 GMT
Hi list This may be an example: Name: Kalpesh Mailadress: Kalpeshisen () schmelzer-brauhaus de Content: bill-*the part from the emailadress(no @xxx.xxx)* Text: *none* attachment: payment.pdf text of the attachment: u cant copy it I uploaded this file: http://www.file-upload.net/download-369170/payment.pdf.html web.de detects that spam mfg allison I am using GFI MailEssential - and it success with 95% of these spams .. Mohamed Farid ,, -----Original Message----- From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of Banyan He Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 11:23 AM To: Wheeler, Eric Cc: WALI; tony barry; Security Basics Forum Subject: Re: New Spam Technique Hi Wheeler, Can you pls show us some samples about it? What the antispam appliance do you have? Regards Wheeler, Eric wrote:
I was trying to think of a way to block this but its rather difficult when the email + the subject line + the attachment + the attachment contents are different every time -----Original Message----- From: listbounce () securityfocus com
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On Behalf Of Banyan He Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 9:41 AM To: WALI Cc: tony barry; Security Basics Forum Subject: Re: New Spam Technique Bad news, that pdf attachment contains the advertisement or the image.
Actually, there is no appliance works on this perfectly. The pdf size should be big or small. WALI wrote:Read, the nuances of catching pdf spam: http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsid=9031 ----- Original Message ----- From: "tony barry" <tony () no-bull co nz> To: "Security Basics Forum" <security-basics () securityfocus com> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 11:04 PM Subject: New Spam TechniqueHi List, We operate several mail servers with catch all accounts and havenoticeda lot of Mailer Daemon 'delivery failed messages mails from genuine sites (mostly German)arriving recently. It would seem the spammersaresending out e-mails with a PDF attachment and a forged sendersaddressto bogus recipients at these organizations whose mail server rejectsthemessage and sends notification to the forged sender. We have openedoneattachment on an isolated machine and it was one of the 'watch these stocks they're going through the roof messages (not exactly sure ofthedetails as my German is a bit rusty). My concern is that there couldbea 'payload' embedded in the PDF. Is this possible? -- The Simple Server Company PO Box 51528 Pakuranga Auckland 021 413642 09 5768552 http://www.simpleserverco.com This e-mail and any attached files transmitted with it areconfidentialand intended solely for the use of the addressees. If you haverecievedthis e-mail in error please inform the sender by sending a reply and delete this message.
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Current thread:
- Re: RE: New Spam Technique corey (Aug 02)
- RE: PDF (and now ZIP) Spam [was: New Spam Technique] MaddHatter (Aug 03)
- Re: RE: New Spam Technique Sebastian Tymków (Aug 03)
- Re: RE: New Spam Technique Micheal Espinola Jr (Aug 03)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: New Spam Technique Mohamed Farid (Aug 14)
- Re: New Spam Technique Deno Vichas (Aug 15)
- RE: New Spam Technique Alison Hell (Aug 15)