Re: Swen Really Sucks

[christophe barbe <christophe () cattlegrid net>]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 12:31:08PM -0500, Brent J. Nordquist wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Peter Busser <peter () trusteddebian org> wrote:
>
> > I use several procmail rules to filter out domains (microsoft.com,
> > msdn.com, etc.) in From: and From, To: (e.g. microsoft.com) and certain
> > words in the subject (e.g. Microsoft). Since the virus depends on
> > looking like an authentic message, it can't do too much randomisation of
> > the domains and subject lines. Of course the filtering is not perfect,
> > but it still reduces the number of virus messages hitting the inbox.
>
> Someone pointed out yesterday that Swen has the header "SUBJECT: " in all
> upper-case, as opposed to the usual mixed-case "Subject: ".  I looked at
> all the ones I've received, and sure enough, they're all upper-case.  
> That might be another telltale you can use if you're taking the procmail
> approach.

> From the debian mailing list, the best test you can use with procmail
seems to be to look for the uuencoded counter url used by the virus.
b3IAAABBZG1pbgAAAEdFVCBodHRwOi8vd3cyLmZjZS52dXRici5jei9iaW4vY291bnRlci5naWYv

The following procmail rule has been proposed:

:0
* > 140000
* < 165000
{
:0 BD
* b3IAAABBZG1pbgAAAEdFVCBodHRwOi8vd3cyLmZjZS52dXRici5jei9iaW4vY291bnRlci5naWYv
/dev/null
}

If you want to avoid the body search (B option), you can use the
following regexp on the subject header:

^subject: (undeliverable|undelivered|returned)? ?(mail|message)(:? (returned to (mail|send)er|user unknown))?
^subject: (new(est)?|latest|last|current)? ?(net(work)?|microsoft|internet)? ?(critical|security)? 
?(pack|patch|update|upgrade)
^subject: (abort|bug|error|failure)? ?(advice|announcement|letter|message|notice|report)

The only missing subject is the empty one.

Christophe

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