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Re: auditing VSE/DOS


From: v b <r0cketgrl () yahoo com>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 06:20:52 -0800 (PST)

Christian --

Mr. Google is your friend. Plug VSE Audit programs
into Google and you will receive multiple hits.  I
found the following most specific to DOS/VSE to get
you started:

http://tinyurl.com/dea9r

Also try the other links at www.auditnet.org

I am sure I have some VSE/MVS specific tools in my
archives.  Contact me off-line if you would like.

Regards,

Valerie


--- Christian Kopacsi <ckopacsi () cmhcm org> wrote:

Anyone have a checklist, best practice guide or any
tools for auditing VSE/DOS?


  
Christian Kopacsi 






-----Original Message-----
From: Hugo Vinicius Garcia Razera
[mailto:hviniciusg () gmail com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 12:27 PM
To: Tomasz Nidecki
Cc: pen-test () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: e-mail address mining tool?


I agree whit every thing u said Tomas, but from the
point off view off
a penetration testing it would be a very nice way to
get what users
are valid on that domain. assuming that the only
service available is
external mail for the users, witch is the case I'm
working right know.

Now comes the question, if i develop such tool, and
the spamers get
the hands on it i will kill my self :), i don't want
no more sper.....
pills mails or...  well i think u know what i mean.

An interesting way off gathering the emails(users)
could be if u get a
"mailer daemon reply"
of an invalid user, so if u don't get anything,
there is the
probability that the account is valid.

any comments any one.

Greetings

Hugo Vinicius Garcia Razera


On 11/7/05, Tomasz Nidecki <tonid () hakin9 org> wrote:
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Sunday, November 6, 2005, 6:36:48 PM, Eyal wrote:

I'm not aware of any tool which can test emails
against an address file.
The most efficient approach to achieve this
functionality is to write a
simple script which sends the SMTP VRFY command
for each entry in an address
file.

Note that some mail servers do not support this
command in order to thwart
spammers.

Hi, everyone.

Well, to be exact, almost no servers support this
command nowadays.
qmail definitely doesn't. AFAIK, Postfix doesn't
either, at least it
didn't the last time I checked. Neither did Exim.
Only Sendmail, in
its standard config, responds to the VRFY command.
I don't know about
commercial, Windows mailservers, but I found the
VRFY command
supported in very few cases. Therefore I would not
base anything on
its output.

Also, testing the existence of the user is rarely
done on the level of
mail envelope. Therefore, you cannot expect the
mailserver to either
reply right after sending the RCPT TO command that
the user doesn't
exist or reply in such away after DATA is sent.
The only thing you can
expect, is that if the user address is invalid,
you will receive a
mailer daemon reply to the MAIL FROM address.

But... This is also not certain. Some mailservers
use a default
account for a given domain, eg. qmail, which I
specialise in. If such
a setup is made, all mail to inexistant users in a
given domain is
directed to a chosen existant account. Therefore
you will not receive
any answer from the mailserver, if a bad e-mail
address is given in
RCPT TO, since mail will be delivered to an
existing user.

Therefore, there is no tool and there will be no
such tool. Which is
good, because if there was, spammers would have a
much easier life
making databases of existing users, so they can
sell them later on.

Cheers,

- --
Tomasz Nidecki, Sekr. Redakcji / Managing Editor
hakin9 magazine            http://www.hakin9.org
mailto:tonid () hakin9 org      jid:tonid () tonid net

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Czy wiesz, co znaczy slowo "haker"?
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