Re: [Avcheck] Can avcheck report the IP address of the client?

From: Michael Tokarev (no email)
Date: Thu May 02 2002 - 08:52:32 EDT


[Note the Cc set to postfix-users]

Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
>
> Can avcheck report the IP address of the client in the log?
> I don't even know if Postfix's pipe transport can provide the info to
> the avcheck binary, but it's surely useful.

No, postfix does not *store* client's IP address in queue file.

Here is a code fragment from my honeypot handler:

IP=`sed -n \
     -e 's/^Received: from.* \[\([0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\)\])$/\1/p' \
     -e '/^Received: /q' \
    $MAIL`

This matches the following (from your message as seen here):

[Return-Path or some other header(s) may be here]
Received: from mail.corpit.ru (mail.corpit.ru [217.23.134.198])
        by mail.tls.msk.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86E878C2D
        for <>; Thu, 2 May 2002 12:05:26 +0400 (MSD)
        (envelope-from )

This will not work with locally generated mails (e.g. sent by
/usr/sbin/sendmail). And this *may* work with qmqpd-submitted
mails, or may be not.

Here are more variants. Double bounce:

Received: by mail.corpit.ru (Postfix)
        id 2B6AA380E; Thu, 2 May 2002 16:40:42 +0400 (MSD)

Locally-submitted mail (/usr/sbin/sendmail interface, Received
by pickup):

Received: by mail.tls.msk.ru (Postfix, from userid 101)
        id DB2DB8C2D; Thu, 2 May 2002 16:45:09 +0400 (MSD)

The following comand may work:

FROM=`sed -n \
     -e 's/^Received: from.* \[\([0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\)\])$/ from IP \1/p' \
     -e 's/^Received: by.* (Postfix)$/ from internal/p' \
     -e 's/^Received: by.* (Postfix,\( from userid [0-9]*\))$/\1/p' \
     -e '/^Received: /q' \
    $MAIL`

(note extra spaces). qmqpd case still missing.

> Why:
>
> * recent viruses forge sender addresses, one can only rely on the
> client's IP address.
>
> * it's tedious to find the client's IP in the log

With the above, one may use "$FROM" in log line. Like:

 logger .. "infected by $MSG;$FROM from=$SENDER to=$*"

Regards,
 Michael.
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