Re: squirrelmail used for spam

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On Jul 3, 2008, at 7:25 AM, Nabin Limbu wrote:

> - All exploited accounts preference were changed (Name, email, reply  
> address)
> - All exploited accounts were forced to use signature and multiple
> signatures were full of spam messages with filename in this pattern
> username.si1 username.si2 username.si3..... for same user.

This is what we saw as well. A find for large .sig files helped  
identify the compromised accounts. In most cases we were able to  
discover the Sent mail replying to the phishing attempt previously  
mentioned in this thread.

cd /path/to/squirrel/data; find . -size +1000c -name *.si* -ls

example --

  83469    4 -rw-------   1 apache   apache       2468 Jun 10 15:53 ./ 
<redacted>/6/8/3/6/<redacted>.net.sig

$ cat <redacted>.net.sig

BMW GROUP PROMOTION
PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT,BMW
Automobiles
22 Garden Close, Stamford, Linc's, PE9 2YP, London United Kingdom
10/ 06 / 2008

Attention: Winner,

This is to inform you that you have been selected for a cash prize of ? 
850,000.00 (Eight hundred and fifty thousand Great British Pounds)  
from the BMW e-LOTTERY BONANZA International programs held on Thursday  
the 9th Of JUNE 2008, in London United Kingdom.

...

--
Marc


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