NAME

DecodeShortURLs - Check for shortened URLs

SYNOPSIS

  loadplugin    Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DecodeShortURLs

  url_shortener tinyurl.com
  url_shortener_get bit.ly

  body HAS_SHORT_URL          eval:short_url()
  describe HAS_SHORT_URL      Message has one or more shortened URLs

  body SHORT_URL_REDIR        eval:short_url_redir()
  describe SHORT_URL_REDIR    Message has shortened URL that resulted in a valid redirection

  body SHORT_URL_CHAINED      eval:short_url_chained()
  describe SHORT_URL_CHAINED  Message has shortened URL chained to other shorteners

  body SHORT_URL_MAXCHAIN     eval:short_url_maxchain()
  describe SHORT_URL_MAXCHAIN Message has shortened URL that causes too many redirections

  body SHORT_URL_LOOP         eval:short_url_loop()
  describe SHORT_URL_LOOP     Message has short URL that loops back to itself

  body SHORT_URL_200          eval:short_url_code('200') # Can check any non-redirect HTTP code
  describe SHORT_URL_200      Message has shortened URL returning HTTP 200

  body SHORT_URL_404          eval:short_url_code('404') # Can check any non-redirect HTTP code
  describe SHORT_URL_404      Message has shortened URL returning HTTP 404

  uri URI_TINYURL_BLOCKED      m,https://tinyurl\.com/app/nospam,
  describe URI_TINYURL_BLOCKED Message contains a tinyurl that has been disabled due to abuse

  uri URI_BITLY_BLOCKED       m,^https://bitly\.com/a/blocked,
  describe URI_BITLY_BLOCKED  Message contains a bit.ly URL that has been disabled due to abuse

DESCRIPTION

This plugin looks for URLs shortened by a list of URL shortening services. Upon finding a matching URL, plugin will send a HTTP request to the shortening service and retrieve the Location-header which points to the actual shortened URL. It then adds this URL to the list of URIs extracted by SpamAssassin which can then be accessed by uri rules and plugins such as URIDNSBL.

This plugin will follow chained redirections, where a short URL redirects to another short URL. Redirection depth limit can be set with max_short_url_redirections.

Maximum of max_short_urls short URLs are checked in a message (10 by default). Setting it to 0 disables HTTP requests, allowing only short_url() test to work and report found shorteners.

All supported rule types for checking short URLs and redirection status are documented in SYNOPSIS section.

NOTES

This plugin runs at the check_dnsbl hook (priority -100) so that it may modify the parsed URI list prior to normal uri rules or the URIDNSBL plugin.

PRIVILEGED SETTINGS

url_shortener domain [domain...] (default: none)

Domains that should be considered as an URL shortener. If the domain begins with a '.', 3rd level tld of the main domain will be checked.

Example:

 url_shortener tinyurl.com
 url_shortener .page.link

url_shortener_get domain [domain...] (default: none)

Alias to url_shortener. HTTP request will be done with GET method, instead of default HEAD. Required for some services like bit.ly to return blocked URL correctly.

Example:

 url_shortener_get bit.ly

clear_url_shortener [domain] [domain...]

Clear configured url_shortener and url_shortener_get domains, for example to override default settings from an update channel. If domains are specified, then only those are removed from list.

url_shortener_cache_type (default: none)

The cache type that is being utilized. Currently only supported value is dbi that implies url_shortener_cache_dsn is a DBI connect string. DBI module is required.

Example: url_shortener_cache_type dbi

url_shortener_cache_dsn (default: none)

The DBI dsn of the database to use.

For SQLite, the database will be created automatically if it does not already exist, the supplied path and file must be read/writable by the user running spamassassin or spamd.

For MySQL/MariaDB or PostgreSQL, see sql-directory for database table creation clauses.

You will need to have the proper DBI module for your database. For example DBD::SQLite, DBD::mysql, DBD::MariaDB or DBD::Pg.

Minimum required SQLite version is 3.24.0 (available from DBD::SQLite 1.59_01).

Examples:

 url_shortener_cache_dsn dbi:SQLite:dbname=/var/lib/spamassassin/DecodeShortURLs.db

url_shortener_cache_username (default: none)

The username that should be used to connect to the database. Not used for SQLite.

url_shortener_cache_password (default: none)

The password that should be used to connect to the database. Not used for SQLite.

url_shortener_cache_ttl (default: 86400)

The length of time a cache entry will be valid for in seconds. Default is 86400 (1 day).

See url_shortener_cache_autoclean for database cleaning.

url_shortener_cache_autoclean (default: 1000)

Automatically purge old entries from database. Value describes a random run chance of 1/x. The default value of 1000 means that cleaning is run approximately once for every 1000 messages processed. Value of 1 would mean database is cleaned every time a message is processed.

Set 0 to disable automatic cleaning and to do it manually.

url_shortener_loginfo (default: 0 (off))

If this option is enabled (set to 1), then short URLs and the decoded URLs will be logged with info priority.

url_shortener_timeout (default: 5)

Maximum time a short URL HTTP request can take, in seconds.

max_short_urls (default: 10)

Maximum amount of short URLs that will be looked up per message. Chained redirections are not counted, only initial short URLs found.

Setting it to 0 disables HTTP requests, allowing only short_url() test to work and report any found shortener URLs.

max_short_url_redirections (default: 10)

Maximum depth of chained redirections that a short URL can generate.

url_shortener_user_agent (default: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/101.0.4951.67 Safari/537.36)

Set User-Agent header for HTTP requests. Some services require it to look like a common browser.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Original DecodeShortURLs plugin was developed by Steve Freegard.