full-disclosure - MyDoom-M evades attachment filters

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From: Marek.Isalski at smuht.nwest.nhs.uk (Marek Isalski)
Subject: MyDoom-M evades attachment filters

>>> "lsi" <stuart@...erdelix.net> 27/07/2004 11:14:20 >>>
> My current thoughts are something like this:
> U.*E.*s.*D.*B.*A.*o.*A.*A.*
> Still got newline prob though.

Careful -- that (corrected) regexp will overoptimistically match strings like: 'United Arab Emirates branch seeks Data Base Administrator to work in providing supporting "Follow-Up" project in Alcoholics Anonymous.'

You probably want to use a regexp matcher that doesn't care about newlines -- i.e. it treats the while MIME attachment as one big string, and you just search for U[:white:]E[:white:]... Though it could be possible that other malformed MIME is accepted by mail clients' parsers but fails your regexp match.  Perhaps [:white:] should really be [^A-Za-z0-9./] (i.e. a regexp matching characters which aren't valid Base64.

Regards,
Marek