Security Basics mailing list archives
Re: Basically Lazy - Email Header Analysis
From: "David Vertie" <verticalrave () hotmail com>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 08:12:24 +0000
You can very easily write a dirty n quick parser to clip stuff from headers in Perl or PHP. It is not very hard to do, and will take someone experienced with data extrapolation only a good weekend or so.
But otherwise, I haven't seen very many e-mail header analysis tools in the wild. (Or it might be that i'm not looking hard enough.) There probably are a couple of people who have coded some header analysis tools out there, because for many simple applications, come alot of applications..
David
From: "Andy Cuff [talisker]" <offthecuff () lineone net> Reply-To: "Andy Cuff [talisker]" <talisker () networkintrusion co uk> To: <security-basics () securityfocus com> Subject: Basically Lazy - Email Header Analysis Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:43:23 +0100 HiWhilst drowning my sorrows in the UK rain following our resounding defeat inthe Eurovision song contest (Politics in Europe surely not !!) I have turned my attention to email headers. Whilst I'm quietly confident about manually analysing email headers, I'm looking for tools or web resources that will automate some of the process. There are plenty of anti-spam resources such as http://combat.uxn.com/ and http://www.spamhaus.org/ to identify spammers and there is the infamous Sam Spade for testing Open Mail Relay Agents. There are a plethora of how-to's and FAQ's about analysing headers manually. But I haven't found many resources that analyse the headers in sufficient accurate detail. Personally I would rather run a tool on my own system than put my headers through a 3rd party website but there are a few sites that seem to do it fairly well such as http://www.3dmail.com/spam/ which whilst spam focussedseems fairly comprehensive, though sadly a beta which hasn't been updated ina year.Any recommendations websites or tools would be greatly appreciated, if thereis a sufficient response I will collate the information onto a new page for the website below and post a summary to this list cheers, and for the Brits have a good Bank Holiday Weekend I hope the weather is better where you are! take care -andy Taliskers Network Security Tools http://www.networkintrusion.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thinking About Security Training? You Can't Afford Not To! Vigilar's industry leading curriculum includes: Security +, Check Point,Hacking & Assessment, Cisco Security, Wireless Security & more! Register Now!--UP TO 30% off classes in select cities-- http://www.securityfocus.com/Vigilar-security-basics ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
_________________________________________________________________STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current thread:
- Basically Lazy - Email Header Analysis Andy Cuff [talisker] (May 26)
- RE: Basically Lazy - Email Header Analysis David Gillett (May 27)
- Re: Basically Lazy - Email Header Analysis stefmit (May 27)
- Re: Basically Lazy - Email Header Analysis Jeremy Anderson (May 30)
- Re: Basically Lazy - Email Header Analysis J . Reilink (May 30)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Basically Lazy - Email Header Analysis Ian (May 27)
- Re: Basically Lazy - Email Header Analysis David Vertie (May 27)
- RE: Basically Lazy - Email Header Analysis Mike Heitz (May 27)