Xtractor Extreme, Power Email Harvester and AMS
(Advanced Mass Sender) three Windows programs to Beware of
Few days ago, I've catch some Spammers on some of the servers
running Windows inside Virtual Private Servers.
I was doubting if I want to write an article to mention about this
3 piece of software as it might be a bit boury however eventually I
thought the goods of it will be better so I just took minutes and
wrote it.
Back to the topic the three programs which the spammer was
installed and prepare to do his spamming job on the VPS server
was:
1. Xtractor Extreme
2. Power Email Harvester
3. Advanced Mass Sender
In order to hide his real IP address and prevent the IP he was
spamming, he has also installed some anonyous proxy like Windows
software called Hide My IP
The first program Xtractor is basicly an Email collector, the
program crawls the net and searches to match email string on web
pages.
It get target websites from major search engines.
You put an email like @gmail.com inside it and it starts
spidering and grabs all email strings under the domain
@gmail.com. Besides that
Xtractor Extreme Pro is
freeware and can be easily downloaded from many locations
online.
Power Email Harvester's program name is also quite
self-explanatory, what it does is it digs the net for email
addresses and generates spam lists ... This is the ultimate tool
for a spammer, however the guys who create this piece of disruptive
software has branded it as "a marketing tool" and even sold and
advertised as a tool to help an e-marketing campaign.
This is of course just a word play and in fact in my viewe these
program should be prohibited by international law.
Advanced Mass Sender is another piece of Spammer software
which officially is tagged as marketing software and is sold and
recommended as an useful tool for e-marketing.
I've take the time to take a quick and test the spammer installed
AMS , honestly I've been amazed how far spamming has went
during the last 5 years.
This
AMS shit is capable of creating a target groups which
could easily be spammed whether each group can contain up to
200000+ ! target emails
Advanced Mass Sender can even check if a certain email is
present on the remote mail server and only then tries to
deliver.
Besides that it even supports sending the spam mails via multiple
mail servers (simultaneously) to increase the thoroughput as well
as supports proxy servers...
I decided to write this few lines article to raise some awareness
about this shitty sofware in a hope that somebody who is
Administrating / Supporting client owned Windows servers or Virtual
Private Servers will be able to read about this 3 ones and stop
spammers before they succeed to create mail havoc with their ugly
spam stuff.