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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Dan Barker <db...@visioncomm.net> on 2008/01/03 22:00:06 UTC

Botnet why?

Why'd baddns hit? I'm confused.

Dan




Report:

Content analysis details:   (5.9 points, 5.6 required)

pts rule name              description
---- ----------------------
--------------------------------------------------
5.0 BOTNET                 Relay might be a spambot or virusbot
[botnet0.8,ip=67.104.179.147,rdns=gadental.org,maildomain=gadental.org,baddn
s]
0.0 HTML_MESSAGE           BODY: HTML included in message
0.0 BAYES_50               BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 40 to 60%
                            [score: 0.5000]
0.9 AWL                    AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list 




Research:

Mail from some user at gadental.org

dig mx gadental.org says:
  gadental.org.                86400 IN MX  10 mail.gadental.org.
  mail.gadental.org.           86369 IN A   67.104.179.147

dig -x 67.104.179.147 says:
  147.179.104.67.in-addr.arpa. 10253 IN PTR gadental.org.




Original Headers:

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Received: from mail.gadental.org [67.104.179.147] by mail.visioncomm.net
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Subject: FW:
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 15:10:34 -0500
Message-ID: <82...@GDAMAIN.gadental.org>
X-MS-Has-Attach: yes
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
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From: "Lisa Chandler" <ch...@gadental.org>
To: "esepark@ppcsouth.com" <'esepark@ppcsouth.com'>
Cc: "Delaine Hall" <ha...@gadental.org>


RE: Botnet why?

Posted by "James E. Pratt" <jp...@norwich.edu>.
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dan Barker [mailto:dbarker@visioncomm.net]
>> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 4:00 PM
>> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
>> Subject: Botnet why?
>> 
>> Why'd baddns hit? I'm confused.
>> 
>> Dan
>> 
>> Report:
>> 
>> Content analysis details:   (5.9 points, 5.6 required)
>> 
>> pts rule name              description
>> ---- ----------------------
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> 5.0 BOTNET                 Relay might be a spambot or virusbot

Better question, why is BOTNET scoring at 5.0!!??  I will admit I have
not used it in quite some time due to many many many fp's, so perhaps
that is default, but 5.0 seems excessively high to me either way... :\ 

Regards,
jamie 


Re: Botnet why?

Posted by Jari Fredriksson <ja...@iki.fi>.
> On 03.01.08 16:00, Dan Barker wrote:
>> Why'd baddns hit? I'm confused.
> 
>> 5.0 BOTNET                 Relay might be a spambot or
>> virusbot
>> [botnet0.8,ip=67.104.179.147,rdns=gadental.org,maildomain=gadental.org,baddn
>> s] 
> 
>> dig mx gadental.org says:
>>   gadental.org.                86400 IN MX  10
>>   mail.gadental.org. mail.gadental.org.           86369
>> IN A   67.104.179.147 
> 
> 
>> dig -x 67.104.179.147 says:
>>   147.179.104.67.in-addr.arpa. 10253 IN PTR gadental.org.
> 
> gadental.org has address 67.18.105.136
> 
> this is bad DNS...

Yes, the PTR record should be 

147.179.104.67.in-addr.arpa. 10253 IN PTR mail.gadental.org.


Re: Botnet why?

Posted by Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uh...@fantomas.sk>.
On 03.01.08 16:00, Dan Barker wrote:
> Why'd baddns hit? I'm confused.

> 5.0 BOTNET                 Relay might be a spambot or virusbot
> [botnet0.8,ip=67.104.179.147,rdns=gadental.org,maildomain=gadental.org,baddn
> s]

> dig mx gadental.org says:
>   gadental.org.                86400 IN MX  10 mail.gadental.org.
>   mail.gadental.org.           86369 IN A   67.104.179.147


> dig -x 67.104.179.147 says:
>   147.179.104.67.in-addr.arpa. 10253 IN PTR gadental.org.

gadental.org has address 67.18.105.136

this is bad DNS...
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