[regex-coach] Trojan Horse suspect message from regex-coach list

Al Rider alan at ridersite.org
Fri Sep 28 19:09:06 UTC 2007


I received  one also...

Dennis Williamson wrote:
> I received an email from the list today that appears to be bogus. It 
> has an attached file called file.zip (which I have not opened). AVG 
> detected the Dropper.Generic_c.GH trojan horse in the file.
>
> The subject of the message is "[regex-coach] Mail System Error - 
> Returned Mail"
>
> The body of the message is:
>
>> Dear user of common-lisp.net,
>>
>> We have received reports that your account has been used to send a 
>> large amount of unsolicited e-mail during this week.
>> Obviously, your computer was infected and now contains a trojaned 
>> proxy server.
>>
>> Please follow the instruction in order to keep your computer safe.
>>
>> Virtually yours,
>> The common-lisp.net team.
> Here is a partial header with some info obscured by "*****":
>
>
> Return-Path: <regex-coach-bounces at common-lisp.net>
> Received: from common-lisp.net [80.68.86.115] by ***** with SMTP;
>   Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:50:12 -0700
> Received: by common-lisp.net (Postfix, from userid 65534)
>     id 705C27E04A; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:49:36 -0400 (EDT)
> Received: from common-lisp.net (localhost [127.0.0.1])
>     by common-lisp.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C5175311A
>     for <*****>; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:49:26 -0400 (EDT)
> Received: by common-lisp.net (Postfix, from userid 65534)
>     id D868050044; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:49:23 -0400 (EDT)
> Received: from common-lisp.net (unknown [189.177.43.107])
>     by common-lisp.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25ABC4E03C
>     for <regex-coach at common-lisp.net>; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:49:21 -0400 
> (EDT)
> X-Original-To: regex-coach at common-lisp.net
> Delivered-To: regex-coach at common-lisp.net
> From: "Automatic Email Delivery Software" <noreply at common-lisp.net>
> To: regex-coach at common-lisp.net
> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:47:05 +0200
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
>     boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0008_07436ADC.6EB5240A"
> Message-Id: <20070928164921.25ABC4E03C at common-lisp.net>
> Subject: SPAM-LOW:   [regex-coach] Mail System Error - Returned Mail
>
> The header appears to be very well spoofed or it's actually coming 
> from the expected server. It looks a lot like one from a known-good 
> message.
>
> Dennis
>
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