R: Fake User-Agent on PDF

Marcello Anderlini m.anderlini at database.it
Mon Jul 2 10:51:38 IST 2007


Sorry guys, but cause my poor English I'm not sure I've understood if there
is a good rules to block pdf spam.
If there is, could someone publish one working ?

Thanks to all for you kindly help.

bye 

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[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] Per conto di Julian
Field
Inviato: sabato 30 giugno 2007 22.11
A: MailScanner discussion
Oggetto: Re: Fake User-Agent on PDF

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Alex Broens wrote:
> On 6/30/2007 6:58 PM, Julian Field wrote:
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>> Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> So far all SPAM PDF files that did not get killed on other issues 
>>> seem to use a fake User-Agent header: User-Agent: Thunderbird
>>> 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509)
>>>
>>> According to
>>> http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/releases/1.5.0.12.html the 
>>> release date is impossible however.
>>>
>>> I have not written a SA rule (yet). I wrote a detectline in my 
>>> header checks of postfix:
>>> /^User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 \(Windows/20070509\)/    
>>> REJECT    This is a fake version of Thunderbird
>> Here's a SA rule that will do the same thing:
>> header JKF_FAKE_TBIRD User-Agent =~ /Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 
>> \(Windows\/20070509\)/ describe JKF_FAKE_TBIRD Fake version of 
>> Thunderbird score JKF_FAKE_TBIRD 1.5
>>
>
> Jules,
>
> /Thunderbird 1\.5\.0\.12\(Windows\/20070509\)/
>
> forgot to escape periods?
Yes, agreed. But it's not very important. A version of the rule that 
accepts 1-5-0-12 is fine too, that's certainly a fake Thunderbird 
version number! :-)

Jules

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