Weekly spam summary on October 21st, 2006
This week, we:
- got 14,794 messages from 260 different IP addresses.
- handled 20,016 sessions from 1,207 different IP addresses.
- received 186,129 connections from at least 47,733 different IP addresses.
- hit a highwater of 37 connections being checked at once.
Volume is around that of last week; I don't know what to make of the increasing highwater. The volume doesn't fluctuate too much from day to day:
Day | Connections | different IPs |
Sunday | 25,762 | +7,003 |
Monday | 27,945 | +6,735 |
Tuesday | 29,442 | +7,764 |
Wednesday | 26,593 | +6,847 |
Thursday | 28,700 | +6,709 |
Friday | 25,001 | +6,578 |
Saturday | 22,686 | +6,097 |
Kernel level packet filtering top ten:
Host/Mask Packets Bytes 213.4.149.12 34927 1816K 72.244.103.210 17256 807K 194.109.24.30 12822 652K 212.175.13.25 4877 293K 61.128.0.0/10 4649 250K 212.184.12.130 4357 209K 212.216.176.0/24 3930 196K 219.94.131.171 3483 209K 80.13.134.100 3481 177K 84.160.0.0/11 3452 170K
Apart from our leading dislike maybe finally giving up, volume is clearly significantly up from last week.
- 213.4.149.12 and 72.244.103.210 return from last week, and are also the only two returning IP addresses.
- 194.109.24.30 kept trying to send us stuff that had already hit our spamtraps.
- 212.175.13.25, 212.184.12.130, and 219.94.131.171 all APNIC IPs with
no reverse DNS (by now I am perilously close to recognizing APNIC
IP ranges on sight). The first is on
bl.spamcop.net
, the latter two are in the NJABL. - 80.13.134.100 is a wanadoo.fr dialup; two big strikes against it for the price of one.
Connection time rejection stats:
37843 total 18462 dynamic IP 15326 bad or no reverse DNS 2162 class bl-cbl 326 class bl-dsbl 325 class bl-sdul 252 class bl-njabl 188 class bl-spews 76 class bl-sbl 66 class bl-ordb
There was only one IP address out of the top 30 most rejected IP addresses that was rejected 100 times or more; 71.101.253.74 (a Verizon DSL line that is also in the CBL et al) at 118 times. 18 of the 30 most rejected IP addresses are currently in the CBL and 3 are currently in bl.spamcop.net.
The SBL picture:
16 | SBL45324 | 'Lucky Solution', a US spammer | 03 Sep 2006 |
15 | SBL42599 | 'Lucky Solution' again | 13 Oct 2006 |
9 | SBL36016 | Polish spam? outfit | Dec 2005 |
7 | SBL47519 | US spam source | 17 Oct 2006 |
7 | SBL47482 | Polish spam source | 16 Oct 2006 |
7 | SBL41338 | Russian advanced fee fraud source | 4 May 2006 |
6 | SBL39631 | Czech spam source (compromised machine) | 29 Mar 2006 |
In summary: many 'real' spammers, and you have to go fairly far down before you find an advance fee fraud or phish spam. Most of the SBL listings for spammers are relatively new, with only a few old ones.
This week, what we got from Hotmail was:
- 2 messages accepted, one of them definitely legitimate.
- 1 message rejected because it came from a non-Hotmail email address; unfortunately it was from 'theroyalpeakraffledraw.com', so it looks like Hotmail may be backsliding to old habits.
- 29 messages sent to our spamtraps.
- 2 messages refused because their sender addresses had already hit our spamtraps.
- 2 messages refused due to their origin IP address (one for being from Nigeria, one for being in the CBL).
About an average week, I suppose.
And the final numbers:
what | # this week | (distinct IPs) | # last week | (distinct IPs) |
Bad HELO s |
335 | 52 | 640 | 68 |
Bad bounces | 255 | 169 | 172 | 140 |
One trend is good, the other trend is bad; that's sort of how it goes
in general. The leading source of bad HELO
s was 65.23.46.163, with
93; no one else came close. The least amusing was 209.11.168.39, with
the claimed HELO
name of 'mail-test.gbxsc.friendster.com', and it
does indeed seem to be a friendster.com machine.
The bad bounces continue to be pretty much like last week, although this time around there were no hex strings.
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