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Atomicorp WAF Rule 330056

Rule Summary

  • Rule ID: 330056
  • Status: Active
  • Alert message: Atomicorp.com WAF Rules: Email Harvester Spambot User agent detected
  • Observed CWEs: None documented
  • Revision: 10
  • Rule severity: Critical (2)
  • Phase: 2 (request body)
  • Request surfaces: Request headers
  • Rule action: deny
  • HTTP status: 403
  • Logging: log, auditlog

Description

This rules detects when known email harvester bots are detected accessing the website. These bots “scrape” websites to collect email addresses to then send spam (UCE) to. ASL automatically blocks these.

Troubleshooting

False Positives

No known false positives.

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

See the Mod_security page for guidance on tuning this rule.

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 330056
  • Source revision: 5301
  • Source revision date: 2014-12-15