#!perl -w =head1 NAME karma - reward nice and penalize naughty mail senders =head1 SYNOPSIS Karma tracks sender history, allowing us to provide differing levels of service to naughty, nice, and unknown senders. =head1 DESCRIPTION Karma records the number of nice, naughty, and total connections from mail senders. After sending a naughty message, if a sender has more naughty than nice connections, they are penalized for I. Connections from senders in the penalty box are rejected per the settings in I. Karma provides other plugins with a karma value they can use to be more lenient, strict, or skip processing entirely. Karma is small, fast, and ruthlessly efficient. Karma can be used to craft custom connection policies such as these two examples: =over 4 Hi there, well known and well behaved sender. Please help yourself to greater concurrency (hosts_allow), multiple recipients (karma), and no delays (early_sender). Hi there, naughty sender. You get a max concurrency of 1, max recipients of 2, and SMTP delays. =back =head1 CONFIG =head2 negative How negative a senders karma can get before we penalize them for sending a naughty message. Karma is the number of nice - naughty connections. Default: 1 Examples: negative 1: 0 nice - 1 naughty = karma -1, penalize negative 1: 1 nice - 1 naughty = karma 0, okay negative 2: 1 nice - 2 naughty = karma -1, okay negative 2: 1 nice - 3 naughty = karma -2, penalize With the default negative limit of one, there's a very small chance you could penalize a "mostly good" sender. Raising it to 2 reduces that possibility to improbable. =head2 penalty_days The number of days a naughty sender is refused connections. Use a decimal value to penalize for portions of days. karma penalty_days 1 Default: 1 =head2 reject karma reject [ 0 | 1 | connect | naughty ] I<0> will not reject any connections. I<1> will reject naughty senders. I is the most efficient setting. To reject at any other connection hook, use the I setting and the B plugin. =head2 db_dir Path to a directory in which the DB will be stored. This directory must be writable by the qpsmtpd user. If unset, the first usable directory from the following list will be used: =over 4 =item /var/lib/qpsmtpd/karma =item I/var/db (where BINDIR is the location of the qpsmtpd binary) =item I/config =back =head2 loglevel Adjust the quantity of logging for this plugin. See docs/logging.pod =head1 BENEFITS Karma reduces the resources wasted by naughty mailers. When used with I, naughty senders are disconnected in about 0.1 seconds. The biggest gains to be had are by having heavy plugins (spamassassin, dspam, virus filters) set the B connection note (see KARMA) when they encounter naughty senders. Reasons to send servers to the penalty box could include sending a virus, early talking, or sending messages with a very high spam score. This plugin does not penalize connections with transaction notes I or I set. These notes would have been set by the B, B, and B plugins. Obviously, those plugins must run before B for that to work. =head1 KARMA No attempt is made by this plugin to determine karma. It is up to other plugins to reward well behaved senders with positive karma and smite poorly behaved senders with negative karma. See B After the connection ends, B will record the result. Mail servers whose naughty connections exceed nice ones are sent to the penalty box. Servers in the penalty box will be tersely disconnected for I. Here is an example connection from an IP in the penalty box: 73122 Connection from smtp.midsetmediacorp.com [64.185.226.65] 73122 (connect) ident::geoip: US, United States 73122 (connect) ident::p0f: Windows 7 or 8 73122 (connect) earlytalker: pass: 64.185.226.65 said nothing spontaneous 73122 (connect) relay: skip: no match 73122 (connect) karma: fail 73122 550 You were naughty. You are cannot connect for 0.99 more days. 73122 click, disconnecting 73122 (post-connection) connection_time: 1.048 s. If we only set negative karma, we will almost certainly penalize servers we want to receive mail from. For example, a Yahoo user sends an egregious spam to a user on our server. Now nobody on our server can receive email from that Yahoo server for I. This should happen approximately 0% of the time if we are careful to also set positive karma. =head1 KARMA HISTORY Karma maintains a history for each IP. When a senders history has decreased below -5 and they have never sent a good message, they get a karma bonus. The bonus tacks on an extra day of blocking for every naughty message they send. Example: an unknown sender delivers a spam. They get a one day penalty_box. After 5 days, 5 spams, 5 penalties, and 0 nice messages, they get a six day penalty. The next offense gets a 7 day penalty, and so on. =head1 USING KARMA To get rid of naughty connections as fast as possible, run karma before other connection plugins. Plugins that trigger DNS lookups or impose time delays should run after B. In this example, karma runs before all but the ident plugins. 89011 Connection from Unknown [69.61.27.204] 89011 (connect) ident::geoip: US, United States 89011 (connect) ident::p0f: Linux 3.x 89011 (connect) karma: fail, 1 naughty, 0 nice, 1 connects 89011 550 You were naughty. You are penalized for 0.99 more days. 89011 click, disconnecting 89011 (post-connection) connection_time: 0.118 s. 88798 cleaning up after 89011 Unlike RBLs, B only penalizes IPs that have sent us spam, and only when those senders have sent us more spam than ham. =head1 USING KARMA IN OTHER PLUGINS This plugin sets the connection note I. Your plugin can use the senders karma to be more gracious or rude to senders. The value of I is the number of nice connections minus naughty ones. The higher the number, the better you should treat the sender. To alter a connections karma based on its behavior, do this: $self->adjust_karma( -1 ); # lower karma (naughty) $self->adjust_karma( 1 ); # raise karma (good) =head1 EFFECTIVENESS In the first 24 hours, B rejected 8% of all connections. After one week of running with I, karma has rejected 15% of all connections. This plugins effectiveness results from the propensity of naughty senders to be repeat offenders. Limiting them to a single offense per day(s) greatly reduces the resources they can waste. Of the connections that had previously passed all other checks and were caught only by spamassassin and/or dspam, B rejected 31 percent. Since spamassassin and dspam consume more resources than others plugins, this plugin seems to be a very big win. =head1 DATABASE Connection summaries are stored in a database. The database key is the integer value of the remote IP. The DB value is a : delimited list containing a penalty box start time (if the server is/was on timeout) and the count of naughty, nice, and total connections. The database can be listed and searched with the karma_tool script. =head1 BUGS & LIMITATIONS This plugin is reactionary. Like the FBI, it doesn't do anything until after a crime has been committed. There is little to be gained by listing servers that are already on DNS blacklists, send to invalid users, earlytalkers, etc. Those already have very lightweight tests. =head1 AUTHOR 2012 - Matt Simerson - msimerson@cpan.org =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Gavin Carr's DB implementation in the greylisting plugin. =cut use strict; use warnings; use Qpsmtpd::Constants; BEGIN { @AnyDBM_File::ISA = qw(DB_File GDBM_File NDBM_File) } use AnyDBM_File; use Fcntl qw(:DEFAULT :flock LOCK_EX LOCK_NB); use Net::IP; sub register { my ($self, $qp) = (shift, shift); $self->log(LOGERROR, "Bad arguments") if @_ % 2; $self->{_args} = {@_}; $self->{_args}{negative} ||= 1; $self->{_args}{penalty_days} ||= 1; $self->{_args}{reject_type} ||= 'disconnect'; if (!defined $self->{_args}{reject}) { $self->{_args}{reject} = 'naughty'; } #$self->prune_db(); # keep the DB compact $self->register_hook('connect', 'connect_handler'); $self->register_hook('mail_pre', 'from_handler'); $self->register_hook('rcpt_pre', 'rcpt_handler'); $self->register_hook('data', 'data_handler'); $self->register_hook('data_post', 'data_handler'); $self->register_hook('disconnect', 'disconnect_handler'); } sub hook_pre_connection { my ($self, $transaction, %args) = @_; $self->connection->notes('karma_history', 0); my $remote_ip = $args{remote_ip}; my $db = $self->get_db_location(); my $lock = $self->get_db_lock($db) or return DECLINED; my $tied = $self->get_db_tie($db, $lock) or return DECLINED; my $key = $self->get_db_key($remote_ip) or do { $self->log(LOGINFO, "skip, unable to get DB key"); return DECLINED; }; if (!$tied->{$key}) { $self->log(LOGDEBUG, "pass, no record"); return $self->cleanup_and_return($tied, $lock); } my ($penalty_start_ts, $naughty, $nice, $connects) = $self->parse_db_record($tied->{$key}); $self->calc_karma($naughty, $nice); return $self->cleanup_and_return($tied, $lock); } sub connect_handler { my $self = shift; $self->connection->notes('karma', 0); # default return DECLINED if $self->is_immune(); my $db = $self->get_db_location(); my $lock = $self->get_db_lock($db) or return DECLINED; my $tied = $self->get_db_tie($db, $lock) or return DECLINED; my $key = $self->get_db_key() or do { $self->log(LOGINFO, "skip, unable to get DB key"); return DECLINED; }; if (!$tied->{$key}) { $self->log(LOGINFO, "pass, no record"); return $self->cleanup_and_return($tied, $lock); } my ($penalty_start_ts, $naughty, $nice, $connects) = $self->parse_db_record($tied->{$key}); my $summary = "$naughty naughty, $nice nice, $connects connects"; my $karma = $self->calc_karma($naughty, $nice); if (!$penalty_start_ts) { $self->log(LOGINFO, "pass, no penalty ($summary)"); return $self->cleanup_and_return($tied, $lock); } my $days_old = (time - $penalty_start_ts) / 86400; if ($days_old >= $self->{_args}{penalty_days}) { $self->log(LOGINFO, "pass, penalty expired ($summary)"); return $self->cleanup_and_return($tied, $lock); } $tied->{$key} = join(':', $penalty_start_ts, $naughty, $nice, ++$connects); $self->cleanup_and_return($tied, $lock); my $left = sprintf "%.2f", $self->{_args}{penalty_days} - $days_old; my $mess = "You were naughty. You cannot connect for $left more days."; return $self->get_reject($mess, $karma); } sub from_handler { my ($self, $transaction, $addr) = @_; # test if sender has placed an illegal (RFC (2)821) space in envelope from my $full_from = $self->connection->notes('envelope_from'); $self->illegal_envelope_format( $full_from ); return DECLINED; }; sub rcpt_handler { my ($self, $transaction, $addr) = @_; $self->illegal_envelope_format( $self->connection->notes('envelope_rcpt'), ); my $count = $self->connection->notes('recipient_count') || 0; $count++; if ( $count > 1 ) { $self->log(LOGINFO, "recipients c: $count ($addr)"); $self->connection->notes('recipient_count', $count); }; return DECLINED if $self->is_immune(); my $recipients = scalar $self->transaction->recipients or do { $self->log(LOGDEBUG, "info, no recipient count"); return DECLINED; }; $self->log(LOGINFO, "recipients t: $recipients ($addr)"); my $history = $self->connection->notes('karma_history'); if ( $history > 0 ) { $self->log(LOGINFO, "info, good history"); return DECLINED; }; my $karma = $self->connection->notes('karma'); if ( $karma > 0 ) { $self->log(LOGINFO, "info, good connection"); return DECLINED; }; # limit # of recipients if host has negative or unknown karma return (DENY, "too many recipients for karma $karma (h: $history)"); } sub data_handler { my ($self, $transaction) = @_; return DECLINED if $self->is_immune(); return DECLINED if $self->is_naughty(); # let naughty do it # cutting off a naughty sender at DATA prevents having to receive the message my $karma = $self->connection->notes('karma'); if ( $karma < -3 ) { # bad karma return $self->get_reject("very bad karma: $karma"); }; return DECLINED; } sub disconnect_handler { my $self = shift; my $karma = $self->connection->notes('karma') or do { $self->log(LOGDEBUG, "no karma"); return DECLINED; }; my $db = $self->get_db_location(); my $lock = $self->get_db_lock($db) or return DECLINED; my $tied = $self->get_db_tie($db, $lock) or return DECLINED; my $key = $self->get_db_key(); my ($penalty_start_ts, $naughty, $nice, $connects) = $self->parse_db_record($tied->{$key}); my $history = ($nice || 0) - $naughty; my $log_mess = ''; if ($karma < -1) { # they achieved at least 2 strikes $history--; my $negative_limit = 0 - $self->{_args}{negative}; if ($history <= $negative_limit) { if ($nice == 0 && $history < -5) { $log_mess = ", penalty box bonus!"; $penalty_start_ts = sprintf "%s", time + abs($history) * 86400; } else { $penalty_start_ts = sprintf "%s", time; } $log_mess = "negative, sent to penalty box" . $log_mess; } else { $log_mess = "negative"; } } elsif ($karma > 1) { $nice++; $log_mess = "positive"; } else { $log_mess = "neutral"; } $self->log(LOGINFO, $log_mess . ", (msg: $karma, his: $history)"); $tied->{$key} = join(':', $penalty_start_ts, $naughty, $nice, ++$connects); return $self->cleanup_and_return($tied, $lock); } sub illegal_envelope_format { my ($self, $addr) = @_; # test if envelope address has an illegal (RFC (2)821) space if ( uc substr($addr,0,6) ne 'FROM:<' && uc substr($addr,0,4) ne 'TO:<' ) { $self->log(LOGINFO, "illegal envelope address format: $addr" ); $self->adjust_karma(-1); }; }; sub parse_db_record { my ($self, $value) = @_; my $penalty_start_ts = my $naughty = my $nice = my $connects = 0; if ($value) { ($penalty_start_ts, $naughty, $nice, $connects) = split /:/, $value; $penalty_start_ts ||= 0; $nice ||= 0; $naughty ||= 0; $connects ||= 0; } return ($penalty_start_ts, $naughty, $nice, $connects); } sub calc_karma { my ($self, $naughty, $nice) = @_; return 0 if (!$naughty && !$nice); my $karma = ($nice || 0) - ($naughty || 0); $self->connection->notes('karma_history', $karma); $self->adjust_karma(1) if $karma > 10; return $karma; } sub cleanup_and_return { my ($self, $tied, $lock, $return_val) = @_; untie $tied; close $lock; return ($return_val) if defined $return_val; # explicit override return (DECLINED); } sub get_db_key { my $self = shift; my $ip = shift || $self->qp->connection->remote_ip; my $nip = Net::IP->new($ip) or do { $self->log(LOGERROR, "skip, unable to determine remote IP"); return; }; return $nip->intip; # convert IP to an int } sub get_db_tie { my ($self, $db, $lock) = @_; tie(my %db, 'AnyDBM_File', $db, O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0600) or do { $self->log(LOGCRIT, "error, tie to database $db failed: $!"); close $lock; return; }; return \%db; } sub get_db_location { my $self = shift; # Setup database location my ($QPHOME) = ($0 =~ m!(.*?)/([^/]+)$!); my @candidate_dirs = ( $self->{args}{db_dir}, "/var/lib/qpsmtpd/karma", "$QPHOME/var/db", "$QPHOME/config", '.' ); my $dbdir; for my $d (@candidate_dirs) { next if !$d || !-d $d; # impossible $dbdir = $d; last; # first match wins } my $db = "$dbdir/karma.dbm"; $self->log(LOGDEBUG, "using $db as karma database"); return $db; } sub get_db_lock { my ($self, $db) = @_; return $self->get_db_lock_nfs($db) if $self->{_args}{nfslock}; # Check denysoft db open(my $lock, ">$db.lock") or do { $self->log(LOGCRIT, "error, opening lockfile failed: $!"); return; }; flock($lock, LOCK_EX) or do { $self->log(LOGCRIT, "error, flock of lockfile failed: $!"); close $lock; return; }; return $lock; } sub get_db_lock_nfs { my ($self, $db) = @_; require File::NFSLock; ### set up a lock - lasts until object looses scope my $nfslock = new File::NFSLock { file => "$db.lock", lock_type => LOCK_EX | LOCK_NB, blocking_timeout => 10, # 10 sec stale_lock_timeout => 30 * 60, # 30 min } or do { $self->log(LOGCRIT, "error, nfs lockfile failed: $!"); return; }; open(my $lock, "+<$db.lock") or do { $self->log(LOGCRIT, "error, opening nfs lockfile failed: $!"); return; }; return $lock; } sub prune_db { my $self = shift; my $db = $self->get_db_location(); my $lock = $self->get_db_lock($db) or return DECLINED; my $tied = $self->get_db_tie($db, $lock) or return DECLINED; my $count = keys %$tied; my $pruned = 0; foreach my $key (keys %$tied) { my $ts = $tied->{$key}; my $days_old = (time - $ts) / 86400; next if $days_old < $self->{_args}{penalty_days} * 2; delete $tied->{$key}; $pruned++; } untie $tied; close $lock; $self->log(LOGINFO, "pruned $pruned of $count DB entries"); return $self->cleanup_and_return($tied, $lock, DECLINED); }