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Block spoofing emails

Johnny Long

We are using UTM as our mail gateway, lately, a lot of our users have received spoofing emails that appear from themself.

We use emailspooftest dotcom site to test our mail servers, and it detects the problem was 

Internal authentication is not enforced.

Fix: On inbound email gateways, only allow specific IP addresses to send mail from internal domains or force an auth challenge for internal domains. This is typically a relay setting.

Could anyone suggest how to fix this problem in Sophos? 

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  • Hi,

    I recommend setting SPF-records for your domain and enabling "Perfom SPF check" in SMTP->Antispam.

    bye Josef

    BERGMANN engineering & consulting GmbH, Wien/Austria

  • in reply to JosefBergmann

    Hi Josef, thank you for your reply. 

    SPF is always enabled and records are update-to-date, this seems to be an open relay problem in UTM.

  • in reply to Johnny Long

    Ok, I suggest xxxxx.com stands for your domain.

    Which hop is your UTM? mail.MYDOMAIN.net?

    How looks your SPF-Setting in the DNS?

    bye Josef

    BERGMANN engineering & consulting GmbH, Wien/Austria

  • in reply to JosefBergmann

    Yes, mail.MYDOMAIN.net is the UTM hop.

    This is what the SPF settings look like:
    v=spf1 mx ip4:13.xx.xx.xx ip4:13.xx.xx.xx ip4:13.xx.xx.xx ip4:13.xx.xx.xx ip4:13.xx.xx.xx include:spf.messagelabs.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:spf.smtp2go.com ~all

    Can anyone spot any issues?

  • in reply to dirkkotte

    The results show as

    SendSMTPCommand: You hung up on us after we connected. Please whitelist us. (connection lost)

  • in reply to Johnny Long

    Ok so you use "Softfail" (~all) in your SPF-policy, these will not stop the spoofed mail on the UTM.

    More details see here Sophos UTM: Enable Sender Policy Framework (SPF)

    "... Your SPF record should contain the token "-all" at the end not "~all". This is a common reason why people are not rejecting spoofed mail as expected."

    bye Josef

    BERGMANN engineering & consulting GmbH, Wien/Austria

  • in reply to JosefBergmann

    Hi Josef, I know we use "Softfail", but we have "Perform SPF check" turned on and I can see a lot of emails got rejected because of SPF check failed.

    I still think we have is an open relay problem, not an SPF problem.

  • in reply to Johnny Long

    If you don't check your own mail logs after doing the OpenRelay test, you would never really know this.

    PS: and i think SPF soft-fail will pass UTM-Spam filter. (you may check SPF-records from SPF-blocked mails)


    Dirk

    Systema Gesellschaft für angewandte Datentechnik mbH  // Sophos Platinum Partner
    Sophos Solution Partner since 2003
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  • in reply to Johnny Long

    As said the UTM will not reject when the SPF-policy is set to Softfail, this is documented in the link I posted.

    All the mails which you see rejecting for sure have a Hardfail SPF-policy. Your Domain have a Softfail-policy, so the mails got not rejected. The Feature "Perform SPF check" just enable the check general.

    bye Josef

    BERGMANN engineering & consulting GmbH, Wien/Austria

  • in reply to Johnny Long

    Good morning, Johnny.  You got the answer from both Dirk and Josef.

    Cheers - Bob

     
    Sophos UTM Community Moderator
    Sophos Certified Architect - UTM
    Sophos Certified Engineer - XG
    Gold Solution Partner since 2005
    MediaSoft, Inc. USA
  • in reply to BAlfson

    Apologies for the late reply.

    Unfortunately, the solutions proposed didn't work, we updated SPF to "hard fail" but it still doesn't stop the phishing emails.

    Here is the email header looks like -

    Received: from EX2016-MDB-AN.xxx.hosted (10.2.4.129) by
 EX2016-MDB-AN.xxx.hosted (10.2.4.129) with Microsoft SMTP Server
 (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id 15.1.2308.8
 via Mailbox Transport; Wed, 20 Jul 2022 14:15:40 +1000
Received: from EX2016-MDB-AN.xxx.hosted (10.2.4.129) by
 EX2016-MDB-AN.xxx.hosted (10.2.4.129) with Microsoft SMTP Server
 (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id
 15.1.2308.8; Wed, 20 Jul 2022 14:15:40 +1000
Received: from ip-10-2-3-109.ap-xxxx.compute.internal (10.2.5.109) by
 EX2016-MDB-AN.xxx.hosted (10.2.4.129) with Microsoft SMTP Server
 (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id 15.1.2308.8
 via Frontend Transport; Wed, 20 Jul 2022 14:15:40 +1000
Received: from [10.2.4.120] (helo=mail.xxx.com)
	by ip-10-2-3-109.ap-southeast-2.compute.internal with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256)
	(Exim 4.90_1)
	(envelope-from <user@xxx.com>)
	id 1oE17c-0004qV-OG
	for user@xxx.com; Wed, 20 Jul 2022 14:15:40 +1000
Received: from [185.222.58.69] (port=62467 helo=xxx.com)
	by mail.xxx.com with esmtp (Exim 4.95)
	(envelope-from <user@xxx.com>)
	id 1oE17W-0001WW-0x
	for user@xxx.com;
	Wed, 20 Jul 2022 14:15:34 +1000
From: xxx.com Server <user@xxx.com>
To: <user@xxx.com>
Subject: Three (4) Incoming mails not delivered
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 06:15:30 +0200
Message-ID: <20220720061530.C5379167367D62FD@xxx.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Return-Path: user@xxx.com
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-Network-Message-Id: e0bd540b-123e-4816-8107-08da6a0681e5
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AVStamp-Enterprise: 1.0
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthSource: EX2016-MDB-AN.xxx.hosted
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthAs: Anonymous
X-MS-Exchange-Transport-EndToEndLatency: 00:00:00.1880204
X-MS-Exchange-Processed-By-BccFoldering: 15.01.2308.008

    Received: from [185.222.58.69] (port=62467 helo=xxx.com)
    by mail.xxx.com with esmtp (Exim 4.95)
    (envelope-from <user@xxx.com>)
    id 1oE17W-0001WW-0x
    for user@xxx.com;
    Wed, 20 Jul 2022 14:15:34 +1000

    The first "Received: from [185.222.58.69]" is not in the SPF record, yet it is the IP that the email originated from.

  • in reply to Johnny Long

    Hi,

    send me a PM with the real log.

    bye Josef

    BERGMANN engineering & consulting GmbH, Wien/Austria

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