Phishing net getting confused

John Wilcock john at tradoc.fr
Tue Jul 17 16:28:18 IST 2007


I think I've uncovered a buglet in the phishing net code (MailScanner
version 4.61.7).

Given the following snippet (this was an outgoing message, quoting an 
original that included the hotbar link; the moz-do-not-send bits weren't 
in that original and seem to be generated by Thunderbird):

> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
>  href="http://promos.hotbar.com/promos/promodll.dll?RunPromo&amp;El=&amp;SG=&amp
> ;RAND=16236&amp;partner=hbtools"><img
>  moz-do-not-send="true" title="" alt="Upgrade Your Email - Click here!"
>  src="http://promos.hotbar.com/promos/promodll.dll?GetPromo&amp;El=&amp;SG=&amp;
> RAND=16236&amp;partner=hbtools&amp;/p.gif"
>  border="0"></a>

Mailscanner's phishing net detected this as follows:

> MailScanner[12590]: Found phishing fraud from promos.hotbar.com
> claiming to be
> www.<imgmoz-do-not-send="true"title=""alt="upgradeyouremail-clickhere!"src="http
> in 6F13B8053.635D4

Clearly the moz-do-not-send is causing a problem, since the original 
message without those tags correctly passed through the net undetected.

John.

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