Increase in spam getting through

Randal, Phil prandal at herefordshire.gov.uk
Tue Aug 1 13:19:11 IST 2006


Derek Harding posted this rule on the spamassassin-users mailing list:

rawbody INLINE_IMAGE    /src\s*=\s*["']cid:/i
describe INLINE_IMAGE   Inline Images
score INLINE_IMAGE 1.5

That'll get all inline images, not just the spammy ones.

I'm scoring it 2 at the moment (but our bayes is well trained and can
compensate).

Phil

--
Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of rob freeman
> Sent: 01 August 2006 12:45
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Increase in spam getting through
> 
> Running MailScanner 4.53.8 on CentOS 4.3.  It is a front end 
> to our exchange 2003 server.  Have rules_du_jour running with 
> these rules:
>  
> TRUSTED_RULESETS="SARE_STOCKS SARE_ADULT SARE_HTML0 SARE_OBFU 
> TRIPWIRE SARE_EVILNUMBERS0 SARE_RANDOM SARE_REDIRECT_POST300 
> SARE_BAYES_POISON_NXM SARE_HTML1 SARE_HEADER0 SARE_HEADER1 
> SARE_SPECIFIC SARE_BML SARE_FRAUD SARE_SPOOF SARE_OEM 
> SARE_GENLSUBJ0 SARE_GENLSUBJ1 SARE_UNSUB SARE_URI";
> 
> Also have DCC, pyzor, razor, and bayes going.  
>  
> We have a rise on spam getting through in the past 2 weeks.  
> Mostly looks like an image with words at the end.  Here is 
> the mail source:
>  
> <html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" 
> xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" 
> xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" 
> xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" 
> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
> <head>
> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)">
> <!--[if !mso]>
> <style>
> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
> o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
> w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
> shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
> </style>
> <![endif]--><o:SmartTagType
>  namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" 
> name="City"/>
> <o:SmartTagType 
> namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"
>  name="place"/>
> <!--[if !mso]>
> <style>
> st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }
> </style>
> <![endif]-->
> <style>
> <!--
>  /* Style Definitions */
>  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
>     {margin:0cm;
>     margin-bottom:.0001pt;
>     font-size:12.0pt;
>     font-family:"Times New Roman";}
> a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
>     {color:blue;
>     text-decoration:underline;}
> a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
>     {color:purple;
>     text-decoration:underline;}
> span.EmailStyle17
>     {mso-style-type:personal-compose;
>     font-family:Arial;
>     color:windowtext;}
> @page Section1
>     {size:595.3pt 841.9pt;
>     margin:2.0cm 42.5pt 2.0cm 3.0cm;}
> div.Section1
>     {page:Section1;}
> -->
> </style>
> </head>
> <body lang=EN link=blue vlink=purple>
> <div class=Section1>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;
> font-family:Arial'><img width=429 height=526 id="_x0000_i1025"
> src="cid:image001.gif at 01C6B486.796DE3A0"></span></font><font 
> size=2 face=Arial><span
> lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span><
> /font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Deals And Sale 
> Items Keyword Group Product StoreAll Products View: GridSort 
> Top Price<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>delicacy Before cm 
> equipment amount floor referred washing machines hookups 
> motors<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>achieve speeds 
> beyond Notebook smaller slower capacity. whereas 
> newest<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>startup rises 
> decay younger fewer startstop better surviving literally 
> drags Maxtor series<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>area Cup World 
> pertinent<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Partial Response 
> Maximum algorithm Textured Landing Zones HDDs UltraDMA/ ATAPI 
> releases barrier broken First<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>reports<o:p></o:p><
> /span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>merchants provided 
> third parties purposes only.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Greek Award 
> winning area Cup World pertinent info Cup. 
> Over<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>From 
> Katrina<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>width Neel Spikes 
> granular opposite opposed spikes appear. These magnets align 
> because cancel<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>eBooks variety 
> subjects such as: novels<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Barcode UNIX 
> WebCam download: Most popular Releases 
> Picks<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>sims Film video 
> film emulateur google<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>warnings worldwide 
> local groups climate severe news. browsers FTP Usenet 
> readers<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>host page. 
> knowledge HTML.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>behind devices. 
> FCAL connected fibre optics. networks protocols iSCSI 
> Ethernet well.SATA pair receiving device.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>audience member. 
> Fact Day: pound<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Buying Selling 
> Models Cutting<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Buy Yahoo 
> YahooMail pageYahoo InNew User Sign Primary Clothing Garden 
> My Lists CareHome<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>APIs powering 
> Tech. paid Inc. Rights<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>name... eg. 
> Solaris SunOS SCO<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>HDA. Almost 
> designer Kenneth Haughton rifle suited protected center harsh 
> delicacy Before cm equipment amount floor referred 
> washing<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>NEWS Center Here 
> will latest sites: English USA/UK German Spanish French 
> Italian<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>this. Website 
> Tools counters polls engines add homepage 
> Website.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>PSP audio MP... 
> Studio WinTasks Uniblue Ltd WinBackup sluggish. engine... LI 
> Controls Trial Deluxe<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Beverage Genealogy 
> Health Nutrition Parenting Science Animation Authoring 
> Editing Media ActiveX Compilers Libraries 
> Debugging<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Players PlugIns 
> Streaming Puzzles<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>basic rate. cases 
> Small Interface ESDI always werent downward 
> wouldnt<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>browsers<o:p></o:p>
> </span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>actual<o:p></o:p></
> span></font></p>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US 
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>him student Visa 
> when others cannot PM Lifetime Fiscal 
> approved<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
> </div>
> </body>
> </html>
> 
>  
> And the scores we get are:
>  
> Subject: bresil But
> Date:  Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:48:28 -0200
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/related;
>  boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0003_01C6B486.796DE3A0"
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510
> Thread-Index: Aca0hnlt/AzKFLsrRCKrOczif4fQrQ==
> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869
> Message-Id: <CCF5EA78369450E.1D03680AAF at direct-adsl.nl>
> X-fleetone.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the 
> ISP for more information
> X-fleetone.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean
> X-fleetone.com-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin 
> (score=2.963,
>  required 6, ALL_TRUSTED 1.00, BAYES_50 0.00,
>  DATE_IN_FUTURE_03_06 1.96, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00)
> X-fleetone.com-MailScanner-SpamScore: 2
> X-fleetone.com-MailScanner-From: xbalmmoiw at direct-adsl.nl
> Return-Path: xbalmmoiw at direct-adsl.nl
> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 31 Jul 2006 08:05:33.0309 (UTC) 
> FILETIME=[18E0AAD0:01C6B478]
> ------=_NextPart_000_0003_01C6B486.796DE3A0
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
>  boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0004_01C6B486.796DE3A0"
> ------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C6B486.796DE3A0
> Content-Type: text/plain;
>  charset="us-ascii"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> ------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C6B486.796DE3A0
> Content-Type: text/html;
>  charset="us-ascii"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> 
> ------=_NextPart_001_0004_01C6B486.796DE3A0--
> ------=_NextPart_000_0003_01C6B486.796DE3A0
> Content-Type: image/gif;
>  name="image001.gif"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-ID: <image001.gif at 01C6B486.796DE3A0>
> 
> ------=_NextPart_000_0003_01C6B486.796DE3A0--
>  
> A MailScanner --lint does not return any problems on the server:
>  
> [root at bouncy spamassassin]# /usr/sbin/MailScanner --lint
> Read 757 hostnames from the phishing whitelist
> Checking for SpamAssassin errors (if you use it)...
> Using SpamAssassin results cache
> Connected to SpamAssassin cache database
> SpamAssassin reported no errors.
> 
> Not sure why this is being sent on as non spam.  Any thoughts?
>  
> Rob
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