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Phishing...or What to Call It?
(a curious attempt at remote compromise) Presented by Dave Mawdsley, DACS Member, Linux SIG Leader April 15, 2015
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A Look at My Web Calendar
1 A Look at My Web Calendar At a customer can click a date—say the 22nd.
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The Resulting Form 2 What appears is form with boxes to fill in. (I've filled them in somewhat.) Then clicking on Submit Request sends an to my account with the data.
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What the User Sees Next 3 The form is posted to a cgi-bin Perl script which sends an to me. The webserver for my website takes the data and uses a sendmail script internally. This has worked properly for years and my customer continue to use it.
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So What's This in my E-mail?
4 It has the look and feel of a phishing or denial of service incident. Unfortunately, s such as this have appeared for a number of days recently.
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A Look at the Full Header
5 I was looking for the originator of the address. I found an IP address that I could use, namely Using Network Tools I looked up using the whois feature and found a useful address.
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#1 6 My first to :
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#1 Reply 7 A good response from BulletProof Web Abuse
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#2 Reply 8 A hopeful reply.
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#2 Reply 9 A good response from BulletProof Web Abuse
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Phishing...or What to Call It?
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