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Re: Strange Emails -- What are they?
From: wayne dawson <waydaws () telus net>
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 23:33:55 -0700
Simon Smith wrote:
I think it's out now, but in case you haven't heard, jesse gough of security focus, said this was "a new Tooso/Beagle variant released a few days ago. It appears to be retrieving lists of email addresses and spamming them, and if the spam attempt does not result in an SMTP error, it will save the address to a "known-good" list and eventually upload that to a remote location. The numbers in the subject and body are randomly selected from a small hardcoded list (2 choices for the subject, 5 for the body). Nothing to indicate the significance of the specific numbers chosen, however."Hi List, I've had roughly one dozen people forward emails to me from different companies asking me to figure out what these emails are. The emails appear to be emails from the from the recipient. For example, John Doe appears to be sending an email to himself, but he's not. In reality when checking the mail server logs I find that the mails originate from the Internet. Other emails like the one below contain a different sender than the recipient but the contents of the emails are the same and they are still from the same domain. -------------------- BEGIN EMAIL ---------------------- Received: from 83.145.66.70 ([172.18.12.134]) by vms043.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTP id <0J0E00AVSNH9ETG0 () vms043 mailsrvcs net> for xxxxxxx () verizon net; Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:55:58 -0500 (CDT) Received: from raptor.net (83.145.66.70) by sv12pub.verizon.net (MailPass SMTP server v1.2.0 - 112105154401JY+PrW) with SMTP id <5-25035-180-25035-2228-2-1149540957> for vms043pub.verizon.net; Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:55:58 -0500 Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 22:52:40 +0100 From: "Gil.novak" <xxxxxx () verizon net> Subject: 586876 X-Originating-IP: [83.145.66.70] To: "xxx.xxxx" <xxxxxx () verizon net> Message-id: <ayoznyepbslfqdlqblr () verizon net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----Original Message----- From: xxx.xxxx [mailto:xxx.xxxx () verizon net] Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 5:53 PM To: xxx.xxxx Subject: 586876 969 -------------------- END EMAIL --------------------- Is this just another instance of spammers fishing for legit addresses? If so, then why the hell are they sending email from invalid addresses? I can dig into this a lot further if I need to, but I wanted to see if anyone else had any ideas about it first. Thanks in advance!!! -Simon _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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Current thread:
- Re: Strange Emails -- What are they?, (continued)
- Re: Strange Emails -- What are they? Simon Smith (Jun 07)
- Re: Strange Emails -- What are they? Ademar Gonzalez (Jun 07)
- Re: Strange Emails -- What are they? Pam Patterson (Jun 07)
- Re: Strange Emails -- What are they? Ademar Gonzalez (Jun 07)
- Re: Strange Emails -- What are they? Michael Holstein (Jun 07)
- RE: Strange Emails -- What are they? Geo. (Jun 07)
- Re: Strange Emails -- What are they? Michael Holstein (Jun 07)