Re: You shady bastards.

[Kradorex Xeron <admin () digibase ca>]

On Wednesday 06 June 2007 09:47, H D Moore wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Some friends and I were putting together a contact list for the folks
> attending the Defcon conference this year in Las Vegas. My friend sent
> out an email, with a large CC list, asking people to respond if they
> planned on attending. The email was addressed to quite a few people, with
> one of them being David Maynor. Unfortunately, his old SecureWorks
> address was used, not his current address with ErrattaSec.
>
> Since one of the messages sent to the group contained a URL to our phone
> numbers and names, I got paranoid and decided to determine whether
> SecureWorks was still reading email addressed to David Maynor. I sent an
> email to David's old SecureWorks address, with a subject line promising
> 0-day, and a link to a non-public URL on the metasploit.com web server
> (via SSL). Twelve hours later, someone from a Comcast cable modem in
> Atlanta tried to access the link, and this someone was (confirmed) not
> David. SecureWorks is based in Atlanta. All times are CDT.
>
> I sent the following message last night at 7:02pm.
>
> ---
> From: H D Moore <hdm[at]metasploit.com>
> To: David Maynor <dmaynor[at]secureworks.com>
> Subject: Zero-day I promised
> Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 19:02:11 -0500
> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain;
>   charset="us-ascii"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Content-Disposition: inline
> Message-Id: <200706051902.11544.hdm[at]metasploit.com>
> Status: RO
> X-Status: RSC
>
> https://metasploit.com/maynor.tar.gz
> ---
>
> Approximately 12 hours later, the following request shows up in my Apache
> log file. It looks like someone at SecureWorks is reading email addressed
> to David and tried to access the link I sent:
>
> 71.59.27.152 - - [05/Jun/2007:19:16:42 -0500] "GET /maynor.tar.gz
> HTTP/1.1" 404 211 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en)
> AppleWebKit/419 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3"
>
> This address resolves to:
> c-71-59-27-152.hsd1.ga.comcast.net
>
> The whois information is just the standard Comcast block boilerplate.
>
> ---
>
> Is this illegal? I could see reading email addressed to him being within
> the bounds of the law, but it seems like trying to download the "0day"
> link crosses the line.
>
> Illegal or not, this is still pretty damned shady.
>
> Bastards.
>
> -HD

I will seldom touch on the legal side but I have a possible scenario:

-- If David is no longer at that address, it could be said that his mail 
account was taken down and the mail sent ended up in a possible "catch all" 
box, perhaps someone at SecureWorks was looking through the said catchall 
mailbox for any interesting mail sent to the secureworks.com domain (i.e. to 
old employees) - It's quite common for companies and organizations to monitor 
former employee mailboxes in the event anyone that doesn't have any new 
contact information to be able to still get somewhere with the old address. 
And them being a security organization, maybe they proceeded to investigate 
the link sent.


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