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    Default Contact_us technical question(s)

    We received an obvious spammer email via the contact us page. First one in ages. Something just doesn't look right (other than the location of the IP).

    Is this cause for concern or something to just delete and move on?
    They've figured out how to get around the hidden field

    Contact us by my test account yielded 2 lines in the logs. 1st was a POST, 2nd was a GET
    zenid was the same in both lines
    Code:
    199.xx.yy.zz - - [11/May/2016:13:55:16 -0700] "POST /index.php?main_page=contact_us&action=send HTTP/1.1" 302 20 "http://chainweavers.com/index.php?main_page=contact_us&zenid=574b596e2bcf2e2988d5a59db139d700" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:46.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/46.0"
    199.xx.yy.zz - - [11/May/2016:13:55:17 -0700] "GET /index.php?main_page=contact_us&action=success HTTP/1.1" 200 7970 "http://chainweavers.com/index.php?main_page=contact_us&zenid=574b596e2bcf2e2988d5a59db139d700" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:46.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/46.0"
    Contact us received in question has 4 lines associated with it. GET, POST, GET, GET
    GET #1 has zenID
    POST has different zenID
    GET #2 has no zenID
    GET #3 has no zenID
    Code:
    46.161.9.20 - - [11/May/2016:13:02:35 -0700] "GET /index.php?main_page=contact_us&zenid=a1d68a7ba6b02a81a003fcdb1a2603c4 HTTP/1.0" 200 41358 "http://chainweavers.com/index.php?main_page=contact_us&zenid=a1d68a7ba6b02a81a003fcdb1a2603c4" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/48.0.2564.116 Safari/537.36"
    46.161.9.20 - - [11/May/2016:13:02:36 -0700] "POST /index.php?main_page=contact_us&action=send&zenid=a0a956dae2b8687bf5f3c88800f7281f HTTP/1.0" 302 - "http://chainweavers.com/index.php?main_page=contact_us&zenid=a1d68a7ba6b02a81a003fcdb1a2603c4" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/48.0.2564.116 Safari/537.36"
    46.161.9.20 - - [11/May/2016:13:02:37 -0700] "GET /index.php?main_page=contact_us&action=success HTTP/1.0" 200 33570 "http://chainweavers.com/index.php?main_page=contact_us&action=success" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/48.0.2564.116 Safari/537.36"
    46.161.9.20 - - [11/May/2016:13:02:38 -0700] "GET /index.php?main_page=contact_us&action=success HTTP/1.0" 200 33582 "http://chainweavers.com/index.php?main_page=contact_us&action=success" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/48.0.2564.116 Safari/537.36"

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    Default Re: Contact_us technical question(s)

    I see nothing particularly alarming there.


    Quote Originally Posted by RixStix View Post
    They've figured out how to get around the hidden field
    Not necessarily. Could be that they actually used the form, as a human.
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    Default Re: Contact_us technical question(s)

    TNX DrByte,

    I figured that was most likely the case.
    That would some fast typing or even fast copy/pasting.
    Last edited by DrByte; 12 May 2016 at 03:24 AM. Reason: removed the spam example

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    Default Re: Contact_us technical question(s)

    A one-off experience of spam isn't worth worrying about. If it were a pattern then it'd be worth digging into logs, doing numerous tests of your own, etc.
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