SPAM - Message Being returned

[noimad1]

I have a friend of mine who I have given a hosting account on one of our servers. Everything has been good for about a year, then all of a sudden a couple of days ago his inbox starts to fill up with undeliverable messages.

I changed his default e-mail address to mine so I could see some of the messages, and sure enough he is getting around 100-150 e-mails a day stating that a message he sent was undelieverable. But he didn't send any of the messages?

Each message has a different to in the e-mail address - such as [email protected] and [email protected]

here is a sample e-mail that was returned:

Received: from logs-tp.proxy.aol.com (logs-tp.proxy.aol.com [152.163.246.15]) by rly-ip03.mx.aol.com (v95.1) with ESMTP id RELAYIN2-3400f91bc246; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 04:02:52 1900
Received: from mail.postmark.net (AC956C46.ipt.aol.com [172.149.108.70]) by logs-tp.proxy.aol.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i0M9037H496960 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 09:00:04 GMT
Message-ID: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 200408:58:51 AM
From: "Cleora NEITO" <[email protected]>
Subject: led them over the crest of some granite hill that was higher than
To: [email protected]
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18 i686)
Importance: Normal
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
X-AOL-IP: 152.163.246.15



Plain Text Attachment [ Download File Save to my Yahoo! Briefcase ]

That’s it! No more c.r,ea,ms or e,x,e.rc.i.s.e.s and you don’t h,a.v.e
to remember to take a p.il,l three times a day

http://yyqxymvxz.medalive.biz/index.php?refid=P0300

GET a b,i.gge.r pe,n.i.s t.od.ay ( 1 to 3 i.nc,h.e.s ) 1.00, % m.o,n.ey
back guaranteed

I wanna remove
http://yqngvcsgqn.medalive.biz/ouptout.php?refid=P0300

depreciation and gold was worth far more than silver. The two young
surgeons, a,b.o.u.t twenty years of age at the m,os,t, yielded themselves
up to the poesy of their situation with all the enthusiasm of youth.
Between Strasburg and

Is there a way we can tell where this e-mail is comming from? I'm not really sure how to read those headers....

 

[Website Rob]

Somebody is spoofing your friend's eMail address -- not much can be done about that. It does appear though, as if the eMail is orginating from: postmark.net. That you should be able to do something about, by forwarding some/all of the returned eMail (don't change anything though) to either the Domain name or Hoster of the Domain name. I'd sent to both actually.

 

[kipper3d]

What is causing this email spoofing? It is happening to a bunch of my customers including myself. I first thought it was my desktop windoze box, but I've been running updated anti virus for over a year now.

Have I been rooted? Is this a linux virus?? Specific to cpanel? Because non of my ensim machines are doing this that I know of.

All Linux 7.3 WHM 8.5.1 cPanel 8.5.3-S3

Thanks!

-John

 

[Website Rob]

It's probably the MyDoom/Novarg Virus that came out last week. Has various attachments the Exim filter will catch, but because the addresses are invalid it has nowhere to kick them back to.