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Moin Moin attachment spam

Here’s a new trick used by the web spammers — attachments on a Moin Moin wiki. The taint.org/wk RecentChanges list illustrates it well:

2007-05-07  set bookmark
[UPDATED]       UserPreferences         04:17   Info    ?StepStep [1-21]        
  #01 Upload of attachment 'big-cocks.html'.
  #02 Upload of attachment 'big-cock.html'.
  #03 Upload of attachment 'big-boobs.html'.
  #04 Upload of attachment 'big-ass.html'.
  #05 Upload of attachment 'bdsm.html'.
  #06 Upload of attachment 'bbw.html'.
  #07 Upload of attachment 'bang-bros.html'.
  #08 Upload of attachment 'bangbros.html'.
  #09 Upload of attachment 'baby.html'.
  #10 Upload of attachment 'asian-porn.html'.
  #11 Upload of attachment 'asian-girls.html'.
  #12 Upload of attachment 'anime-porn.html'.
  #13 Upload of attachment 'anime-girls.html'.
  #14 Upload of attachment 'angelina-jolie.html '.
  #15 Upload of attachment 'amature.html'.
  #16 Upload of attachment 'amatuer.html'.
  #17 Upload of attachment 'adult-videos.html'.
  #18 Upload of attachment 'adult-stories.html' .
  #19 Upload of attachment 'adult-games.html'.
  #20 Upload of attachment '69.html'.
  #21 Upload of attachment '3d.html'.

Great. Lots of spam. This first started appearing on Feb 27 2007, in a multi-upload attack on a single page (“FindPage”), from IP address 212.26.129.162; then reoccurred on Apr 27 and May 7 from the (insecure open proxy) proxy.drevlanka.ru.

Annoyingly my “subscribe to wiki changes” patch doesn’t catch this — these aren’t gatewayed through as “changes” via mail for review. I need to fix that in my copious free time. :(

Also, the RecentChanges RSS feed doesn’t list them, although the HTML form does.

So unfortunately, the only way I can see to block this is either to review by visiting the RecentChanges page in a web browser regularly (how retro!), and delete them retrospectively, or simply to turn off attachments entirely — which is what I’ve done, by editing “wikiconfig.py” and adding:

    actions_excluded = ['AttachFile']

It looks like quite a few other wikis around the web are running into the issue too :(