PING: Outlook 2003 Spam

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Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Outlook 2003 the premier mail client from the company
called 'Microsoft' certainly appears to have a lot of security
features built into it. Cursory examination shows excellent
thought into 'spam' containment, 'security' consideration and
many other little 'things'. So much so the default rendering of
html is in so-called 'restricted zone' which disallows nearly
everything [frames, iframes, objects, scripting etc.]. In
addition 'special' spam measures are taken to disallow graphic
downloads from a remote server in html email which can be used
to verify recipients:

[screen shot: http://www.malware.com/duhlook.png 40KB]

The Key Word is: nearly

Utilising Outlook's own bizarre scheMAH ! which comprises
a 'proper' frame along with an src pointing to our remote
server, we are able to ping the server and confirm our recipient
has viewed our email. We don't require graphics or frames or
iframes to do that:

<v:vml frame style="LEFT: 50px; WIDTH: 300px; POSITION:
relative; TOP: 30px; HEIGHT: 200px"
src = "http://www.malware.com/duh.txt#malware"></v:vmlframe>

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<STYLE>
v\:* { behavior: url(#default#VML); }
</STYLE>
<XML:NAMESPACE NS="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" PREFIX="v"/>
</HEAD>


Notes:

1. We now commence our examination of the Microsoft Office 2003
suite, we're a bit late, but it has taken all this time to save
up to buy the thing
2. Quick 72 hour prodding reveals that this 'perceived' premier
device known as Outlook 2003 is in fact riddled with holes
3. Do not receive or open any emails period. Use string and tin
cans if you must communicate



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[Spencer, Mark]

Hello,

A coworker and I spent much of the day yesterday trying to replicate
this behavior and we were not able to do so. The only time we can get
Outlook 2003 to pull anything from our server with this code is when we
send the email within our own MS Exchange. We've tried multiple
clients, multiple SMTP servers, and many variations of the code below
and have not been successful, other than emails sent between Exchange
users.

I have not seen any other comments on this issue. Is it possible
Microsoft has already patched Outlook 2003 to only allow this behavior
when dealing with a trusted zone?

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: http-equiv@excite.com [mailto:1@malware.com]=20
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 8:42 AM
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Cc: NTBugtraq@listserv.ntbugtraq.com
Subject: PING: Outlook 2003 Spam



Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Outlook 2003 the premier mail client from the company called 'Microsoft'
certainly appears to have a lot of security features built into it.
Cursory examination shows excellent thought into 'spam' containment,
'security' consideration and many other little 'things'. So much so the
default rendering of html is in so-called 'restricted zone' which
disallows nearly everything [frames, iframes, objects, scripting etc.].
In addition 'special' spam measures are taken to disallow graphic
downloads from a remote server in html email which can be used to verify
recipients:

[screen shot: http://www.malware.com/duhlook.png 40KB] =20

The Key Word is: nearly=20

Utilising Outlook's own bizarre scheMAH ! which comprises a 'proper'
frame along with an src pointing to our remote server, we are able to
ping the server and confirm our recipient has viewed our email. We don't
require graphics or frames or iframes to do that:

<v:vml frame style=3D"LEFT: 50px; WIDTH: 300px; POSITION:=20
relative; TOP: 30px; HEIGHT: 200px"=20
src =3D "http://www.malware.com/duh.txt#malware"></v:vmlframe>

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<STYLE>
v\:* { behavior: url(#default#VML); }
</STYLE>
<XML:NAMESPACE NS=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" PREFIX=3D"v"/> =
</HEAD>


Notes:

1. We now commence our examination of the Microsoft Office 2003 suite,
we're a bit late, but it has taken all this time to save up to buy the
thing 2. Quick 72 hour prodding reveals that this 'perceived' premier
device known as Outlook 2003 is in fact riddled with holes 3. Do not
receive or open any emails period. Use string and tin cans if you must
communicate



End Call


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[http-equiv@excite.com]

I think Mark might be onto something both the vml and the copies
of named files in the temp folder no longer appear to occur:

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10323
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10307

Those notes are dated 10th and 11th May. On the machine they no
longer work on, we have a couple XP so-called 'patches' from
14th May and 17th May with a 3 or 4 office update folders with
files created on 17th May as well.

How's that for service. Quick, silent patching ! No need to
bother anyone ! Well done lads.

[unless of course if our little XP test machines are broken and
we are seeing things]

"Spencer, Mark" <mspencer@evidentdata.com> said:

> Hello,
>
> A coworker and I spent much of the day yesterday trying to
replicate
> this behavior and we were not able to do so. The only time we
can get
> Outlook 2003 to pull anything from our server with this code
is when we
> send the email within our own MS Exchange. We've tried
multiple
> clients, multiple SMTP servers, and many variations of the
code below
> and have not been successful, other than emails sent between
Exchange
> users.
>
> I have not seen any other comments on this issue. Is it
possible
> Microsoft has already patched Outlook 2003 to only allow this
behavior
> when dealing with a trusted zone?
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: http-equiv@excite.com [mailto:1@malware.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 8:42 AM
> To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
> Cc: NTBugtraq@listserv.ntbugtraq.com
> Subject: PING: Outlook 2003 Spam
>
>
>
> Tuesday, May 11, 2004
>
> Outlook 2003 the premier mail client from the company
called 'Microsoft'
> certainly appears to have a lot of security features built
into it.
> Cursory examination shows excellent thought into 'spam'
containment,
> 'security' consideration and many other little 'things'. So
much so the
> default rendering of html is in so-called 'restricted zone'
which
> disallows nearly everything [frames, iframes, objects,
scripting etc.].
> In addition 'special' spam measures are taken to disallow
graphic
> downloads from a remote server in html email which can be used
to verify
> recipients:
>
> [screen shot: http://www.malware.com/duhlook.png 40KB]
>
> The Key Word is: nearly
>
> Utilising Outlook's own bizarre scheMAH ! which comprises
a 'proper'
> frame along with an src pointing to our remote server, we are
able to
> ping the server and confirm our recipient has viewed our
email. We don't
> require graphics or frames or iframes to do that:
>
> <v:vml frame style="LEFT: 50px; WIDTH: 300px; POSITION:
> relative; TOP: 30px; HEIGHT: 200px"
> src = "http://www.malware.com/duh.txt#malware"></v:vmlframe>
>
> <HTML>
> <HEAD>
> <STYLE>
> v\:* { behavior: url(#default#VML); }
> </STYLE>
> <XML:NAMESPACE NS="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" PREFIX="v"/>
</HEAD>
>
>
> Notes:
>
> 1. We now commence our examination of the Microsoft Office
2003 suite,
> we're a bit late, but it has taken all this time to save up to
buy the
> thing 2. Quick 72 hour prodding reveals that this 'perceived'
premier
> device known as Outlook 2003 is in fact riddled with holes 3.
Do not
> receive or open any emails period. Use string and tin cans if
you must
> communicate
>
>
>
> End Call
>
>
> --
> http://www.malware.com
>
>
>
>
>
>



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