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Atomicorp WAF Rule 300001

Rule Summary

  • Rule ID: 300001
  • Status: Active
  • Alert message: Atomicorp.com WAF AntiSpam Rules: Abusive or Spam Domain detected in argument
  • Observed CWEs: None documented
  • Revision: 24
  • Rule severity: Warning (4)
  • Phase: 2 (request body)
  • Request surfaces: Request arguments, JSON request data, SOAP request data
  • Rule action: deny
  • HTTP status: 403
  • Logging: log, auditlog

Description

This rule detects if a domain is either a known abusive or spam domains. These are domains that have been used either to flood sites, abuse mailing lists/forums or to spam trusted sources.

This rules work by detecting the use of a the domain in an argument.

False Positives

A false positive can occur when a domain is not bounded, due to the parallel matching technique used to do the blocklist searches, or if a domain has previously been used to abuse or spam and is no longer engaging in this activity.

It is not recommended that you disable this rule if you have a false positive. If you believe this is a false positive, please report this to our security team to determine if this is a legitimate case, or if its clever attack on your system. Instructions to report false positives are detailed on the Reporting False Positives wiki page. If it is a false positive, we will fix the issue in the rules and get a release out to you promptly.

Tuning Guidance

If you know that this behavior is acceptable for your application, please see the Tuning the Atomicorp WAF Rules page for basic information.

This is a selected list of documented research observations, not an exhaustive coverage matrix. Absence of a CVE does not imply absence of protection.

No selected related public CVE research notes are currently published.

Documentation Source

  • Original wiki page: WAF 300001
  • Source revision: 4948
  • Source revision date: 2014-06-21