Phishing problem.

Martin Hepworth martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM
Mon Nov 28 12:31:40 GMT 2005


Tony

Well for starters upgrade net::DNS to some more modern and you'll get extra
SA checks working...

Then I'd post the URL to the debug out so Jules can peruse it..

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Martin Hepworth 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Tony Enderby
> Sent: 28 November 2005 12:08
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] Phishing problem.
> 
> Julian,
> 
> Ok, result from debug output at the terminal was this .. if there's
> another dump file with debug info in it let me know and I'll post the
> output from that.  This terminal output was generated when I sent a
> phishing trigger.
> 
> Starting MailScanner daemons:
>          incoming sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>          outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>          MailScanner:       In Debugging mode, not forking...
> SA bayes lock is /root/.spamassassin/bayes.lock
> Bayes lock is at /root/.spamassassin/bayes.lock
> Net::DNS version is 0.23, but need 0.34dnsavailable-1 at
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Dns.pm line 1230.
> Done the parse. Counter = 0 and max = 200
> commit ineffective with AutoCommit enabled at
> /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/CustomFunctions/MailWatch.pm line 93,
> <CLIENT> line 42.
> Commmit ineffective while AutoCommit is on at
> /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/CustomFunctions/MailWatch.pm line 93,
> <CLIENT> line 42.
> Stopping now as you are debugging me.
> 
> 
> 	----- Original Message -----
> 	From: Julian Field <mailto:MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> 	To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> 	Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 10:56 PM
> 	Subject: Re: Phishing problem.
> 
> 
> 	Yes, it's always worth trying. Certainly no reason not to.
> 
> 	On 28 Nov 2005, at 11:44, Tony Enderby wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 		Julian,
> 
> 		Made the requested change to MailScanner.conf and then
> attempted to trigger with a well formed phish and the subject was not
> modified to insert (Fraud?)
> 
> 		Would running MS in debug mode as Martin suggested be
> worthwhile?
> 
> 		Tony.
> 
> 			----- Original Message -----
> 			From: <mailto:MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> Julian
Field
> 			To: <mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> 			Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 10:00 PM
> 			Subject: Re: Phishing problem.
> 
> 			Try setting "Phishing Modify Subject = yes" in
> MailScanner.conf and let me know what happens. I have an idea of what it
> might be. At some point in the last month or 2, CVS "lost" an edit (CVS is
> the package that manages the source code tree). MessageBatch.pm was
> therefore missing a function.
> 
> 			Upgrade to the latest beta and let me know what
happens.
> This may well fix it.
> 
> 			On 28 Nov 2005, at 10:45, Tony Enderby wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 				Hi All,
> 
> 				I have read some posts in the list archive
> regarding phishing fraud detection and one in particular about a user who
> couldn't get the functionality working but there was no definitive answer
> so I thought I'd ask again.
> 
> 				I have been unable to get phishing detection
to
> trigger (insert highlight) with MS v 4.47.4 or the two previous stable
> releases.   I have dangerous content scanning set to on and although
> originally had 'find phishing fraud" set to a ruleset, have also tried
> hard coding to '"yes" both with the same result.
> 
> 				I have tried manually firing the phishing
> detection by sending hand coded html email from various external sources
> (not on phishing whitelist) with disparate text and URL links, and also
> copied examples from various "phishing sample" websites.  The numeric
> phishing detection does also not seem to work with the most simple email
> I've compiled and sent containing the following entry <a href=
> <http://203.203.45.45> MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt
> from "203.203.45.45" claiming to be numericlinkwarning
> http://203.203.45.45> <http://www.test.net> http://www.test.net</a> but MS
> lets them through without inserting the warning.
> 
> 				The folloing entries appears in my
> MailScanner.conf
> 
> 				Find Phishing Fraud = yes
> 				Also Find Numeric Phishing = yes
> 				Highlight Phishing Fraud = yes
> 
> 				A copy of terminal output from MailScanner
-v is
> included below in the hope that maybe I'm missing some HTML parser module
> which is required to do the phishing checks.
> 
> 
> 				Any help would be much appreciated.
> 
> 				Tony.
> 
> 				This is Perl version 5.008005 (5.8.5)
> 
> 				This is MailScanner version 4.47.4
> 				Module versions are:
> 				1.00    AnyDBM_File
> 				1.14    Archive::Zip
> 				1.03    Carp
> 				1.119   Convert::BinHex
> 				1.00    DirHandle
> 				1.05    Fcntl
> 				2.73    File::Basename
> 				2.08    File::Copy
> 				2.01    FileHandle
> 				1.06    File::Path
> 				0.14    File::Temp
> 				1.29    HTML::Entities
> 				3.45    HTML::Parser
> 				2.30    HTML::TokeParser
> 				1.21    IO
> 				1.10    IO::File
> 				1.123   IO::Pipe
> 				1.50    Mail::Header
> 				3.05    MIME::Base64
> 				5.417   MIME::Decoder
> 				5.417   MIME::Decoder::UU
> 				5.417   MIME::Head
> 				5.417   MIME::Parser
> 				3.03    MIME::QuotedPrint
> 				5.417   MIME::Tools
> 				0.10    Net::CIDR
> 				1.08    POSIX
> 				1.77    Socket
> 				0.05    Sys::Syslog
> 				1.02    Time::localtime
> 
> 				Optional module versions are:
> 				0.17    Convert::TNEF
> 				1.809   DB_File
> 				1.08    Digest
> 				1.01    Digest::HMAC
> 				2.33    Digest::MD5
> 				2.01    Digest::SHA1
> 				missing Inline
> 				missing Mail::ClamAV
> 				3.000004        Mail::SpamAssassin
> 				missing Mail::SPF::Query
> 				missing Net::CIDR::Lite
> 				0.23    Net::DNS
> 				0.31    Net::LDAP
> 				missing Parse::RecDescent
> 				missing SAVI
> 				missing Sys::Hostname::Long
> 				2.42    Test::Harness
> 				0.47    Test::Simple
> 				1.95    Text::Balanced
> 				1.19    URI
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