FC: A nasty new trend in spamming: Forged Politech messages

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Tue Jul 22 2003 - 14:59:28 PDT

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    [I do not send HTML mail or attachments to Politech. If you receive such a 
    message that appears to be from me, it is probably a forgery. Apparently 
    this kind of address-scraping is happening to other popular lists like 
    bugtraq as well. --Declan]
    
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    Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:12:44 -0400
    From: "Christopher A. Petro" <petroat_private>
    To: declanat_private
    Subject: [declanat_private: FC: Dick Armey, former House Maj. Leader, 
    blasts Poindexter's TIA]
    
    Looks like someone's mined the archives for email addresses and hand-
    crafted an email with an attached win32 executable.  I must admit that
    I'm curious what someone that would put so much effort into such a
    prank would attach.  Anyone bored enough to disassemble it or run it on
    a throwaway win32 machine?  I ran strings against it and it didn't
    find any human-readable text in it.
    
    Odd that they didn't bother to forge the from and return-path headers
    correctly, either.  Relayed through Japan, blah blah blah.  The usual.
    Though the last received header is from what looks to be a PPP dialup,
    so maybe it's actually the real sender's ip.  Either that or someone
    suffered through spamming through a dialed-up open relay.
    
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     >From declanat_private  Tue Jul 22 16:51:45 2003
    Return-Path: <declanat_private>
    Delivered-To: petroat_private
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    Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 05:48:29 +0900 (JST)
    Message-Id: <200307222048.h6MKmSB10702@mail0-4.kcn.ne.jp>
    From: Declan McCullagh <declanat_private>
    Subject:  FC: Dick Armey, former House Maj. Leader, blasts Poindexter's TIA
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------EC1UN6A2RZNYEY"
    To: undisclosed-recipients:;
    
    ------------EC1UN6A2RZNYEY
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
    
    
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    Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:57:35 -0500
    To: declanat_private
    Subject: CSE Calls for TIA Program Termination
    From: bhapesat_private
    
    CSE News Alert for Declan McCullagh      June 26, 2003
    Dick Armey, co-Chair
    
    -------------------
    
    YOU CAN CHANGE THE N
    
    ------------EC1UN6A2RZNYEY
    [snipped for length --Declan]
    
    -- 
    Christopher A. Petro .. petroat_private .. 917-346-1536
    
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    Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 21:07:57 -0400
    To: declanat_private
    From: "Lawrence R. Ware" <larryat_private>
    Subject: possible trouble for you
    
    Declan, just a friendly "heads-up" if you have not already
    heard: Some maroon in .jp IP space has a virus and it is using
     >From: Declan McCullagh <declanat_private>
    as the From and Return-Path fields.
    
    Full headers below, the virus payload has been removed, it was named:
    hjsplit.zip.exe
    
    Hope you don't get too many complaints...
    -larry
    
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     >	for <lrwareat_private>; Sat, 19 Jul 2003 13:31:02 -0700 (PDT)
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     >Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 05:05:18 +0900 (JST)
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     >From: Declan McCullagh <declanat_private>
     >Subject: FC: Dick Armey, former House Maj. Leader, blasts Poindexter's TIA
     >MIME-Version: 1.0
     >Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------B6XPDGV3FZA2M4"
     >X-SpamPal: SPAM BLIST 61.86.6.10
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     >Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:57:35 -0500
     >To: declanat_private
     >Subject: CSE Calls for TIA Program Termination
     >From: bhapesat_private
     >
     >CSE News Alert for Declan McCullagh      June 26, 2003
     >Dick Armey, co-Chair
     >
     >-------------------
     >
     >YOU CAN CHANGE THE NA
     >
     >
     >
    # larryat_private
    # Orlando, Florida
    
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    Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 23:30:02 +0200
    To: Declan McCullagh <declanat_private>
    From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowlesat_private>
    Subject: Fwd: FC: Dick Armey, former House Maj. Leader, blasts
      Poindexter's TIA
    Content-Type: multipart/mixed; 
    boundary="============_-1153212928==_============"
    
    Declan,
    
    	Hmm.  Looks like you're famous.  They're now generating spam in your name.
    
    --- begin forwarded text
    
    
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    Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 05:48:29 +0900 (JST)
    Message-Id: <200307222048.h6MKmSB10702@mail0-4.kcn.ne.jp>
    From: Declan McCullagh <declanat_private>
    Subject:  FC: Dick Armey, former House Maj. Leader, blasts Poindexter's TIA
    MIME-Version: 1.0
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    To: undisclosed-recipients:;
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    Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:57:35 -0500
    To: declanat_private
    Subject: CSE Calls for TIA Program Termination
    From: bhapesat_private
    
    CSE News Alert for Declan McCullagh      June 26, 2003
    Dick Armey, co-Chair
    
    -------------------
    
    YOU CAN CHANGE THE N
    
    Content-Type: application/x-msdownload; name="hjsplit.zip.scr"
    Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="hjsplit.zip.scr"
    
    
    
    --- end forwarded text
    
    
    -- 
    Brad Knowles, <brad.knowlesat_private>
    
    "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
    safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
         -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
    
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