This is one of the about 20 emails that have been received. Upon looking it looks like they are spoofing the [tor-relays] subject line. My apologies for the subject change but could not find a way to forward the emails without forwarding them from an old conversation. Thank you. (The subject this is in reference to is "Spam Emails Received From This Mailing List"). ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Becky Janet <beckyjanet335900@re.mexyst.com> Date: Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 7:48 PM Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Tor Guard Relay To: Keifer Bly <keifer.bly@gmail.com> first you need to trust someone to find real sex partner. So if you want to find real sex partner then you need to trust me. Always i'm telling you it's totally f r e e. Just connect with My Private Page <http://datingflirt.info/1stold> by submitting you mail, name, age etc. I'm assure you if it's ask any cc then no need to connect with me. So just trust and try. Trust Me & Try It Now NCTB ; After completing this task check your mail ,Automatically you will get my personal phone no in your mail within 5 min. Just check your mail (inbox/s p a m) and call me asap. I'm waiting for your cam
On 06/08/2018 05:03 PM, Keifer Bly wrote:
OK, so they're just using subject lines from the list. And not spoofing the from address. But what you forwarded doesn't include the headers. By googling, I get this: | 1) Open the message in your Gmail inbox. | 2) Click the down-arrow in the top-right corner of the message. | 3) Click the "Show original" link toward the bottom of the options | box. The message will open in a separate window with the full | message headers at the top. Just save that as a text file, and send it to me as an attachment. Why the bloody hell someone would target users of this list in that way is bizarre. And why you? Rather than me, who is admittedly an outspoken jerk sometimes ;)
On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 18:18:19 -1100 Mirimir <mirimir@riseup.net> wrote:
I got one too, when posting here quite some time ago (1 year+). It was very bizarre so my prime guess was they might be targeting some buffer overflow vulnerability in libjpeg (or some other OS' JPEG parser) such as [1] with those pictures. Since we have a couple of those posted publicly, if anyone has free time and related experience, you could check if that's the case here. [1]https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2004-0200/ -- With respect, Roman
I was asked by mirmir to send one of the emails as a txt file, and so here it is. It is at the google drive link below, I had tried to send it as an attachment, but got a note back saying it was being held because it was too big. The zip file contains the contents of the email and the attached images. Thank you. I will try creating a spam filter for the email domain they are coming from, though a few of them have come from yahoo.com domain, which annoyingly I can't really block as some of my legitimate contacts use yahoo mail. I could try reporting this to Google, what do you think? https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_cH2cPZZmbTMmE2Ni1hc1BZbXliM0hMaTZnN19Gcj... On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 9:57 PM Mirimir <mirimir@riseup.net> wrote:
On 06/09/2018 05:28 AM, Keifer Bly wrote:
Thanks. But the text there doesn't contain headers. But that's less an issue, because from headers aren't spoofed. The question now is whether this is simple trolling, or attempts to infiltrate machines of relay operators. Someone experienced with malware analysis could examine the images for attack code, as Roman suggested. But that's over my head. Blocking *.mexyst.com domains, as Neel suggested, will likely stop most of them, with little or no downside. But blocking yahoo.com isn't workable for many. But if they're all as salacious as Keifer's example, blocking on language seems workable. Or language plus domain. As with Efail, this is a reminder of the risks of decoding HTML, loading embedded images, and fetching remote content. And the importance of compartmentalizing email and browsing from credentials for relay management (and other high-impact stuff, such as finances).
I just scanned the picture files using Avast, which I use a a lot and it is a pretty great anti virus program based off of my use with it. Here is the contents of the email in programming code; I don't know about other email services but in Gmail this can be retrieved by signing into the web version (in a web browser) clicking the more options button (next to the replay button) and clicking "show original".
From what I can tell looking at the code, it is encoded using base64 and the ip address of the web server it was sent from is 104.161.37.109.
However, as for telling anything else, it seems like that would be difficult to do without the right equipment. Let me know what you think. Again it's a link to view it on Google Drive as the list doesn't seem to allow attachments being sent to it. Thanks. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_cH2cPZZmbTWnN6TE83SlV2RzRzbG9ISGhSX0U4X1... On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 5:26 PM Mirimir <mirimir@riseup.net> wrote:
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