RE: New Spam Technique

["Mohamed Farid" <mfarid () mscc com eg>]

I am using GFI MailEssential - and it success with 95% of these spams ..

Mohamed Farid ,, 

-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com]
On Behalf Of Banyan He
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 11:23 AM
To: Wheeler, Eric
Cc: WALI; tony barry; Security Basics Forum
Subject: Re: New Spam Technique

Hi Wheeler,

Can you pls show us some samples about it?

What the antispam appliance do you have?

Regards

Wheeler, Eric wrote:
> I was trying to think of a way to block this but its rather difficult
> when the email + the subject line + the attachment + the attachment
> contents are different every time 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: listbounce () securityfocus com
[mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com]
> On Behalf Of Banyan He
> Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 9:41 AM
> To: WALI
> Cc: tony barry; Security Basics Forum
> Subject: Re: New Spam Technique
>
> Bad news, that pdf attachment contains the advertisement or the image.

> Actually, there is no appliance works on this perfectly. The pdf size 
> should be big or small.
>
> WALI wrote:
>   
> > Read, the nuances of catching pdf spam:
> >
> > http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsid=9031
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "tony barry" <tony () no-bull co nz>
> > To: "Security Basics Forum" <security-basics () securityfocus com>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 11:04 PM
> > Subject: New Spam Technique
> >
> >
> >     
> > > Hi List,
> > >
> > > We operate several mail servers with catch all accounts and have
> > >       
> noticed
>   
> > > a lot of Mailer Daemon 'delivery failed messages mails from genuine
> > > sites (mostly German)arriving recently. It would seem the spammers
> > >       
> are
>   
> > > sending out e-mails with a PDF attachment and a forged senders
> > >       
> address
>   
> > > to bogus recipients at these organizations whose mail server rejects
> > >       
> the
>   
> > > message and sends notification to the forged sender. We have opened
> > >       
> one
>   
> > > attachment on an isolated machine and it was one of the 'watch these
> > > stocks they're going through the roof messages (not exactly sure of
> > >       
> the
>   
> > > details as my German is a bit rusty). My concern is that there could
> > >       
> be
>   
> > > a 'payload' embedded in the PDF. Is this possible?
> > >
> > >
> > > -- 
> > > The Simple Server Company
> > > PO Box 51528 Pakuranga
> > > Auckland
> > >
> > > 021 413642  09 5768552
> > >
> > > http://www.simpleserverco.com
> > >
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Banyan He
Email&Web Security
MSN: banyan.he () hotmail com
Skype: banyan.he
Email: banyan () rootong com
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