Re: Basically Lazy - Email Header Analysis

["David Vertie" <verticalrave () hotmail com>]

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
>
> Hi
> Whilst drowning my sorrows in the UK rain following our resounding defeat 
> in
> the 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 focussed
> seems fairly comprehensive, though sadly a beta which hasn't been updated 
> in
> a year.
>
> Any recommendations websites or tools would be greatly appreciated, if 
> there
> is 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


---------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------