mydoom gets around: ghewgill

mydoom gets around

I subscribed to a couple of mailing lists at http://www.us-cert.gov today. This involved writing an email message to majordomo at their site, and then replying to a confirmation message they send to you. Because I have greylisting set up, I had expected to wait a while before receiving the first confirmation message. However, to my surprise I received the confirmation message almost right away! That meant that the mail server at CERT had already contacted mine sometime within the last five days.

I began to think how ironic it would be to have received a Mydoom message from CERT themselves, and if they had an infected computer there. I quickly scanned through mail logs looking for their IP address, and sure enough I found that their server had sent me a message early monday morning.

I did find it, but it turned out to be fairly unexciting. Some other computer out there on the internet somewhere had forged a Mydoom message from <brenda@hewgill.com> to <majordomo@us-cert.gov>, and their mail server dutifully responded back to brenda with a confirmation message. I don't have that confirmation message anymore (I've been deleting a lot of mail lately), but it would have been interesting to see where it came from in the first place.

Oh, how I was hoping to see something fun like an original Mydoom message from CERT.

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