RE: Partial protection against MyDoom

["ragdelaed" <ragdelaed () catholic org>]

If you look at the source, its not using mx records. Its guessing.

It gets the domain name, then prepends mx., mail., smtp., mx1., mxs.,
mail1., relay., ns., and gate. to the domain name and send itself off.
Since most companies call their smtp outbounds relay or smtp or mail,
then it gets lucky. A lot.

Sux, but its kinda smart.

-----Original Message-----
From: full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com
[mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com] On Behalf Of Tomasz
Grabowski
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 7:44 PM
To: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
Subject: [Full-disclosure] Partial protection against MyDoom


Hello.

I have not been able to find simmilar information on the Internet, so
I'm
posting it here. Maybe someone will find it as a solution to MyDoom
e-mails flood. But if it is already known, sorry for wasting your time.

* * *

It looks that MyDoom is not using the MX flag of particular domain. Look
at the following example:

$ host -t ANY domain.example.com
[snip]
                        7200    ;retry refresh this often
                        3600000 ;expiration period
                        172800  ;minimum TTL
                        )
domain.example.com mail is handled (pri=0) by mail.domain.example.com

This is a common example of configuration of 'big' domain. You can see
that MX for this domain is mail.domain.example.com.

There is in fact no such host like domain.example.com. If you will try
to
lookup for such configured domain directly, you will end up with the
"domain.example.com: Non-existent host".

If you have simmilar situation and you are still suffering from enormous
amount of MyDoom e-mails, you can configure your domain like this:

$ host -t ANY domain.example.com
[snip]
                        7200    ;retry refresh this often
                        3600000 ;expiration period
                        172800  ;minimum TTL
                        )
domain.example.com has address 127.0.0.1
domain.example.com mail is handled (pri=0) by mail.domain.example.com


It should not affect your domain (real SMTP servers will use MX flag and
send e-mails to mail.domain.example.com) but MyDoom will be using this
127.0.0.1 address instead, thus your domain will be protected.

Opinions are welcome.


Regards,

--
Tomasz Grabowski
Technical University of Szczecin,         +48 (91)4494234
Academic Centre of Computer Science   www.man.szczecin.pl


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