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Re: A new technique to disguise a target URL in spam


From: "http-equiv () excite com" <1 () malware com>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 22:57:32 -0000



 <!--

 In This link http://www=2emcafee=2ecom/ the Hex translated 
wrongly so instead of %2E , =2E came out Hex value %2E is the 
dot '.'

 -->

this is nothing more than 

Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable  

the default encoding scheme of Outlook Express mail client 
[possibly others]. The whole html form gimmick POC posted to 
bugtraq only a few days ago:

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/359139


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