Help in analyzing a junk email solicited
Hello everybody and Happy Easter.
I need to ask for help. A customer of mine (and many people he knows as well as myself) are getting spam, the "typical" junk with just a link in the email. Always his email address is shown as the sender address.
I have tested his machine (XP SP3); MS Security Essentials, MalwareBytes and SuperAntiSpyware say the machine is clean. My machine (W7 SP1) is clean by the same tests as well and naturally we have never clicked on any of the links. We both use the Mozilla Thunderbird email client version 3.1.9.
I am not a networking guy beyond the basics and can not decipher what IP address (and email account?) the mails are originating from.
So I add the source of the mail in text format following this post hoping for help.
Thank you in advance. Eike
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From - Sun Apr 24 17:33:24 2011
X-Account-Key: account1
X-UIDL: AE1Vk0UAALNjTbSjvAciIUDMnw
X-Mozilla-Status: 0011
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
X-Mozilla-Keys:
X-Apparently-To: ejheinze@att.net via 69.147.85.77; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:27:07 -0700
X-YahooFilteredBulk: 209.191.85.55
Received-SPF: none (mta1010.sbc.mail.sp1.yaho
X-YMailISG: RdRa0BYcZAqbZj3HW9bLq4Km65
kJ7pz8VryVsRT4NWx7lCLMz3gg
hFLFXUizkMdb4CCG9vvW28lYeM
dP2rHtPkLs6DKrp8GmZjO.uIPc
3pNw5nWZzyFd5BsZaJ2HIX3FyI
DKT0Fh033tQB4y8WYQWGuCjAI4
Ed72JuDdZhmCxFwAsEx905ln8Z
MtK_F2cbmkXoXW4mkyGXuTVaSh
fe6w2LgYgcoTKC1anr6AAxNYcg
X-Originating-IP: [209.191.85.55]
Authentication-Results: mta1010.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo
Received: from 204.127.208.84 (EHLO sccwmxc04.att.net) (204.127.208.84)
by mta1010.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo
Received: from web36804.mail.mud.yahoo.co
by att.net (sccwmxc04) with SMTP
id <20110424222706s0400io4a9e
X-Originating-IP: [209.191.85.55]
Received: (qmail 56903 invoked by uid 60001); 24 Apr 2011 22:27:06 -0000
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1303684026; bh=kttlTHIdys+9glH7u/CJvEo
DomainKey-Signature:a=rsa-
s=s1024; d=yahoo.com;
h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:R
b=HCIFby5B4UyMrguPNZHAv01R
Message-ID: <313269.28423.qm@web36804.
X-YMail-OSG: L5nbghUVM1kiRBeQmswrxy5WDB
Wac490KMY2CXbwoD0hUE4zk2v9
9Y_58pyVudFrho1T02_m_BZimF
0QKAk0615cOYDcpUVRkZtfeyCm
o65AhoiFaLtsnm5UHDQBWvdQz_
pcjUEZsDFkFzEEY2dodMNQDt9y
E1LF1_ooEf.suyVBL
Received: from [202.128.5.98] by web36804.mail.mud.yahoo.co
X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.8.11
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:27:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Larry Koltz <larry.koltz@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re:4
To: dean@outdoornews.com, dirtybob47@gmail.com, editor@lakelandtimes.com,
ejheinze@att.net, erica.lake@imail.org, jjflickenger@hotmail.com,
furrie@wi.rr.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
http://lamaisonenchantee.fr/cool01.11.php?SID=326 --- Do NOT click this link!
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I need to ask for help. A customer of mine (and many people he knows as well as myself) are getting spam, the "typical" junk with just a link in the email. Always his email address is shown as the sender address.
I have tested his machine (XP SP3); MS Security Essentials, MalwareBytes and SuperAntiSpyware say the machine is clean. My machine (W7 SP1) is clean by the same tests as well and naturally we have never clicked on any of the links. We both use the Mozilla Thunderbird email client version 3.1.9.
I am not a networking guy beyond the basics and can not decipher what IP address (and email account?) the mails are originating from.
So I add the source of the mail in text format following this post hoping for help.
Thank you in advance. Eike
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From - Sun Apr 24 17:33:24 2011
X-Account-Key: account1
X-UIDL: AE1Vk0UAALNjTbSjvAciIUDMnw
X-Mozilla-Status: 0011
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
X-Mozilla-Keys:
X-Apparently-To: ejheinze@att.net via 69.147.85.77; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:27:07 -0700
X-YahooFilteredBulk: 209.191.85.55
Received-SPF: none (mta1010.sbc.mail.sp1.yaho
X-YMailISG: RdRa0BYcZAqbZj3HW9bLq4Km65
kJ7pz8VryVsRT4NWx7lCLMz3gg
hFLFXUizkMdb4CCG9vvW28lYeM
dP2rHtPkLs6DKrp8GmZjO.uIPc
3pNw5nWZzyFd5BsZaJ2HIX3FyI
DKT0Fh033tQB4y8WYQWGuCjAI4
Ed72JuDdZhmCxFwAsEx905ln8Z
MtK_F2cbmkXoXW4mkyGXuTVaSh
fe6w2LgYgcoTKC1anr6AAxNYcg
X-Originating-IP: [209.191.85.55]
Authentication-Results: mta1010.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo
Received: from 204.127.208.84 (EHLO sccwmxc04.att.net) (204.127.208.84)
by mta1010.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo
Received: from web36804.mail.mud.yahoo.co
by att.net (sccwmxc04) with SMTP
id <20110424222706s0400io4a9e
X-Originating-IP: [209.191.85.55]
Received: (qmail 56903 invoked by uid 60001); 24 Apr 2011 22:27:06 -0000
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1303684026; bh=kttlTHIdys+9glH7u/CJvEo
DomainKey-Signature:a=rsa-
s=s1024; d=yahoo.com;
h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:R
b=HCIFby5B4UyMrguPNZHAv01R
Message-ID: <313269.28423.qm@web36804.
X-YMail-OSG: L5nbghUVM1kiRBeQmswrxy5WDB
Wac490KMY2CXbwoD0hUE4zk2v9
9Y_58pyVudFrho1T02_m_BZimF
0QKAk0615cOYDcpUVRkZtfeyCm
o65AhoiFaLtsnm5UHDQBWvdQz_
pcjUEZsDFkFzEEY2dodMNQDt9y
E1LF1_ooEf.suyVBL
Received: from [202.128.5.98] by web36804.mail.mud.yahoo.co
X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.8.11
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:27:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Larry Koltz <larry.koltz@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re:4
To: dean@outdoornews.com, dirtybob47@gmail.com, editor@lakelandtimes.com,
ejheinze@att.net, erica.lake@imail.org, jjflickenger@hotmail.com,
furrie@wi.rr.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
http://lamaisonenchantee.fr/cool01.11.php?SID=326 --- Do NOT click this link!
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ASKER
Thank you thinkpads_user.
I am sorry but I knew all this; I am just trying to help a customer to maybe stop what he perceives almost as a personal assault.
But again, thanks.
I am sorry but I knew all this; I am just trying to help a customer to maybe stop what he perceives almost as a personal assault.
But again, thanks.
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My email is by now very well filtered and I see very little spam. Accordingly, I do not trace much spam any more. However, a decent approach (and one you can use here I think) is to look at the IP farthest down. In many cases, this is where the spam is coming from. ... Thinkpads_User
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ASKER
@thinkpads_user: Thanks for the comment with the translated IP addresses; that certainly may become helpful. And the tip with the IP furthest down, THAT is the kind of tips I was hoping for.
@DaveBaldwin: THANK YOU Dave. I am biting my hinders that I didn't think of that... You are a contender for at least some of the points.
@DaveBaldwin: THANK YOU Dave. I am biting my hinders that I didn't think of that... You are a contender for at least some of the points.
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ASKER
Wow breadtan! Thank you! That was the kind of info I was looking for.
So long as your mail server is not a open relay, and so long as your email clients have not been compromised with malware, then really all you can do is check your spam filtering rules and try to exclude spam based on its characteristics (more of an art than a science). ... Thinkpads_User