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Feedback: April 2003, Published: May 2003

Once again the spammers have been busy. I have received eight spam e-mails for the month of April. However, three of them were identical. This makes for five seperate instances of spam. Samples are shown below. Brian reports that he has noticed an increase in the amount spam at his site (see below).

In Australia there has been a great fanfare about lesgislation against spamming. We are yet to see any details. I am sure that the result will be ineffectual, beauracratic and a waste of time (not to mention taxpayers' money).

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Spam Diaries:


User Agent String "Mozilla/4.01 [en](Win95;I)"

Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 09:21:35 -0500
From: John Van Essen

Hi,

That's a very impressive list of user agent strings you have!

But this entry in the browser agent strings:

Netscape        4.01    Mozilla/4.01 [en](Win95;I)

is not a normal Netscape string.  Compare it with others.  The [en]
and Win95; should both be followed by a space.

It's from some download-type program or plug-in and I'm trying to figure out
what it is before I block it.
--
    John Van Essen

Ed: John,

Yes, it does appear to be a process that is associated with a browser. I
have only been visited by this process once. That occured last year at
08-Aug-2002:12:17:13 (GMT+1000), I got a visit from 196.2.56.5. He came
from Google (searching for humour+download). His agent string claimed to
be MSIE 5.5 on Windows ME. Or at least that is how I think this string
should be interpreted:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90; MWC 196.30.178.17)

After hitting my humour page (http://www.pgts.com.au/download/humour/),
this new agent started up about thirty seconds after the page had
loaded. It then hit http://www.pgts.com.au/download/humour/KISS.txt four
times in as many seconds starting at 08-Aug-2002:12:17:53. It then
vanished, never to be seen again.

Gerry,

That's one of the patterns that I see at 3D Gamers (normal browser,
fires this other thing up, hits a file 4 times, then quits). It's like a
download manager trying to use 4 channels to get a file.

Ed: It seems that the CIDR of my visitor is South African in origin (the
netblock is owned by M-Web in Capetown).

I have no idea what it is. Any suggestions?

None yet.  Google isn't too helpful on a search for this agent string...

At the end of this message, I'm pasting in yesterday's log entries
for this agent (it's combined log format but without the referer).
So you can see what we get on a regular basis amongst 4-5,000,000
requests per day (only 400-500,000 for pages, though :D).

It was the fellow from dhcp024-210-146-066.woh.rr.com that got my
attention since he triggered so many 404's and appeared on my
"Most hosts with 404's" list for that day.  Hence my investigation
into this broken POS.  :)

Ed: John included a list of entries with his email. By the looks of
those entries the process exhibited robot-like behaviour. I only had the
one visit, and that was seven months ago. So the process might have
evolved a little since then. I expect that if he had the referer string
he would seen an empty referer for the robot portion of the process. At
the PGTS site, the browser entries from the same IP address exhibited
normal behaviour. So it's not possible to be certain whether the process
was kicked off as a background process within the MSIE browser, or it
was operated by human familiar, who released the robot after checking
the site.

Anyway whatever it was, it did not appear to be very smart. The PGTS
site has mainly text info, so downloading with four channels is a rather
like using a chainsaw to cut butter.

I promoted this agent string to the suspicious agents file at
http://www.pgts.com.au/cgi-bin/pgtsj?file=pgtsj0304b. Agents in this list are
not necessarily up to no good. However the behaviour is a bit strange,
or they try to disguise themselves.

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SPAM is certainly increasing

Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 13:39:33 +1000 (EST)
From: Brian Robson

Hi there Gerry,

Approximate counts for SPAM rec'd to my personal email address are
below.

There is no doubt there has been a sudden escalation this year, although
it climbed steadily during last two years. Counts are very approximate,
to the nearest 20 (10 for 2001).

If you do a mental average for each six month block, it's taking off.
IMHO, a free "bogofilter" spam filter on every windows PC is the only
answer, although Senator Alston thinks leglislation will help.

Jan 2001 - 120
Feb 2001 - 70
Mar 2001 - 120
Apr 2001 - 70
May 2001 - 50
Jun 2001 - 50

Jul 2001 - 90
Aug 2001 - 110
Sep 2001 - 120
Oct 2001 - 190
Nov 2001 - 240
Dec 2001 - 280

Jan 2002 - 260
Feb 2002 - 220
Mar 2002 - 260
Apr 2002 - 360
May 2002 - 400
Jun 2002 - 320

Jul 2002 - 300
Aug 2002 - 340
Sep 2002 - 340
Oct 2002 - 400
Nov 2002 - 380
Dec 2002 - 380

Jan 2003 - 380
Feb 2003 - 500
Mar 2003 - 720
Apr 2003 - 570 up to 21/4
May 2003 -
Jun 2003 -

Cheers,

Brian


==============================================================
PS: Bloody hell! This very instant some spammer has just sent me an email..

Subject: No More Spam for Brianr!

They want me to buy Spam Remedy!

Ed: Now that's what I call serious spam ... A spamer who wants to sell
you a spam filter! This raises some obvious questions: Will "Spam Remedy"
filter spam about "Spam Remedy"? I wonder if the spammer has a sense of
irony? Or does he actually believe that this is the way to sell spam
filters?

I know that we haven't seen the details of the legislation yet. But I
have to express my deep and profound scepticism. The previous attempt at
legislation to eliminate pornography was ludicrous and ineffective. I
would be most surprised if Alston's anti-spam legislation went against
current trends of legislation from his office. If it requires provisions
for ISPs to block spam, it will be unworkable and largely unenforceable.
On the other hand if the focus is on prosecuting spammers in the
Australian jurisdiction, I am just as sceptical. If spamming is illegal
in Oz, then Aussie spammers can go offshore, so to speak. They don't
even have to leave their desk.

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SPAM: Work from home -- Just send spam and ask for money!

Do these guys actually make money out of this?

From HomeWorkersAssociation359@yahoo.com Wed Apr  2 19:17:36 2003
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	 Wed, 2 Apr 2003 18:18:41 +0900
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 09:16:38 GMT
From: "Ernest William"<HomeWorkersAssociation359@yahoo.com>
X-Priority: 3
To: gerry@xxxx.com.au
Subject: >>>WORK AT HOME...START TODAY...MAKE BIG $$$
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SPAM: Paul Thomas, topsites-us.com again -- give it a rest Paul, you'll go Blind!

I don't know if anyone is sending these guys money. But if anyone is, I wish they would stop. It's a scam. They are just stealing your money!

From postmaster@topsites-us.com Fri Apr 11 13:45:37 2003
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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:19:15 -0700
From: "Paul Thomas" <postmaster@topsites-us.com>
Subject: PGTS Pty Ltd - Programing to support Oracle, Linux, Unix and Perl. System Administration. Surrey Hills, Victoria.  http://www.pgts.com.au/
To:
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

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Can you call me and tell me more?
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Can I still renew after your deadline?
We give our customers a month to renew so do not worry too much about the deadline.

How do I see my listing? I could not find it when I searched.
You can go to www.topsites-us.com and click on the categories until you
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You can also see it at www.topsites-us.com by entering two or more
keywords from your listing into our search form. Since we have more than
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What keywords display my listing?
How do I change them?
Every word in your listing is a keyword. Anytime someone searches on two
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listing.

How many search engines will we be listed at?
You listing will appear at all search engines in Internet Explorers
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How much traffic did you send us last year? We do not know. Sorry. We
are working on adding this feature.

..for more answers go to:
http://topsites-us.com/faq/index.htm?id=611582&d=pgts.com.au&op=cat&c=1

Ed: According to whois, Paul Thomas is the technical contact for
topsites-us.com. His address is supposedly:
	1300 Evans Avenue
	PO Box 7334 - 101591
	San Francisco, CA 94120-7334

If anyone is foolish enough to send him money. I urge you to stop doing
it. Send it to me! In return I'll give you the benefit of some very good
advice (e.g. don't send money to spammers!).

For a previous sample of Paul's work see Last Month's Feedback.

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SPAM: Spam from Peter Kurz (Germany)

This spam is similar to the spam which purported to be from mannis@firemail.de. There is a domain called firemail.de, however this e-mail was sent from a dial-in address owned by Deutsche Telekom AG.

From theyellow@firemail.de Thu Apr 17 18:25:53 2003
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Subject: Submit to YELLOW PAGES
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Ed: The HTML portion of this message has not been included. Note that
the URL has been obsfuscated with the string %32%312.184.71.246. I
presume that many GUI browsers (e.g. MSIE) will translate this into
212.184.71.246. There is a page at the specified URL of 212.184.71.246.
This page is very large and has a considerable amount of JavaScript. It
seems to be intended for collecting details to purchase a yellow pages
type directory listing. Details are as follows:

Title: Register Page - TRAVEL Yellow - TRAVEL Yellow Pages - TRAVEL YELLOW - Peter Kurz
Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.2.2

Peter Kurz appears to be a customer of Deutsche Telekom AG, or a third
party that is their customer. He has rented a twenty-nine bit CIDR from
the Deutsche Telekom netblock starting at 212.184.71.240. Kurz' address
is listed in whois as:

	Schlossberg 19
	75175 Pforzheim
	GERMANY

His email address is listed as newcomer@firemail.de. Although there is
no evidence to show that he is the originator, it appears that he has
commissioned and/or instigated this spam. I sent an abuse notification
to Deutsche Telekom AG.

On 07-May-2003, I received a communication from Deutsche Telekom:
________________________________________

- English Version -
Dear Sir or Madam

We received and analysed your e-mail.
The causer is a customer of  T-Online.
Therefore we sent your complaint to

T-Online International AG
mailto:abuse (at) t-online.de
Tel.: 06151/680-0
abuse-Team

       Kind regards
Deutsche Telekom AG
   Security Team Ulm

________________________________________

The site at 212.184.71.246 no longer appears to be operating.

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SPAM: Jane Brooks -- pdhost.com again

From sender@cs-stats.com Wed Apr 30 13:26:22 2003
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