PDF Spam cannot be filtered by IronPort?

Recently, my company received many pdf spams although we have IronPort C100. Any solution for filtering PDF Spams?

Did you check the headers to insure that they came from IronPort?
I've run into several customer installs that had port 25 open to other mail and OWA servers that were either no longer or never published MX records that spammers found over time and it creates a backdoor for spam entry.
Double check the Received line in the headers to verify it came through the IronPort and forward all false negatives to [email protected]
Sincerely,
Jay Bivens
IronPort Systems

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Quick question:
We updated our C170 to 8.5.6-092 last week, and since then we've seen a massive increase in SPAM making it through our Ironport undetected.
I've read some updates here re: SBRS and repengine issues after an 8.5.6-092 update, and have investigated these (both are OK) but nonetheless I am curious if others are seeing the same thing.
What I'd like to know is if these are just a new spam campaign that is making it through the Ironport filters, or if we have an actual technical issue after the 8.5.6-092 upgrade that I'm missing.
Current status:
Rule Type    Last Update    Current Version    New Update
CASE Core Files    Tue Sep 30 12:22:51 2014    3.3.1-009    Not Available
CASE Utilities    Tue Sep 30 12:22:51 2014    3.3.1-009    Not Available
Structural Rules    Mon Oct 6 08:08:52 2014    3.3.1-009-20141005_221700    Not Available
Web Reputation DB    Mon Oct 6 01:18:29 2014    20141006_081308    Not Available
Web Reputation DB Update    Mon Oct 6 09:18:56 2014    20141006_081308-20141006_161553    Not Available
Content Rules    Mon Oct 6 10:06:11 2014    20141006_170304    Not Available
Content Rules Update    Mon Oct 6 10:06:11 2014    20141006_170501    Not Available
In general, we're seeing spam with the following characteristics:
1) many originate from, or contain links to, .link domains
2) SBRS on these are clear (-1, -2) and gets a pass on the SBRS check
3) Sample subjects:
SENDER:    [email protected]
SUBJECT:    Exclusive: Enrollment Plans from Blue-Cross, Humana, and AARP.
SENDER:    [email protected]
SUBJECT:    Re: Someone has run-a-background scan on you. See-your results #190860649
SENDER:    [email protected]
SUBJECT:    Alert:Someone ran your background-scan. Read the results #1609820.01
SENDER:    [email protected]
SUBJECT:    Ford Cuts Prices to Make Quotas.
SENDER:    [email protected]
SUBJECT:    Website May Expose Your Arrest Records. (see details)
SENDER:    [email protected]
SUBJECT:    Re: Your background-report may have been viewed on 10/03/14
4) Furthermore, many contain .link URL's in the content, and the newly added URLscanning seems to be giving these a total pass, too.
Some samples: http://signupnow.growingmedicareprovider.link , http://detailshere.largelycarsavings.link etc.
We're playing wack-a-mole with individual rules for subjects and .link domains, i.e. to flag and quarantine these as they come in, but I'd like to know if anyone else seeing this, or just me?
-b

Hello Bryan,
Ideally for us to diagnose if there is a possible fault in your IronPort or with misconfiguration we would need you configuration file, complete message tracking information and also the actual samples which are passing the device.
Thus i would like to recommend you to open a Cisco TAC case with us so we can be of assistance.
In terms of the information provided (there maybe some other variables to consider as well).
I would suggest firstly running this command on your device if not already done.
CLI > updatenow force
Let the systems update all services again.
Continue to monitor.
These server IPs if they continue to send such emails their IP's will hit a blacklist.
However at this point, there are too many variables in place that can affect the scanning of these emails and reasons why they're passing.
EDIT:
8.5.6-092 revision corrects the SBRS connection that was witnessed in -074 as per the release notes.
Regards,
Matthew

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I want to use my new IAS570 for SPAM and Web filtering but not as a firewall or VPN endpoint at this time. I want to contune to use my existing firewall for the other 2 services. Is it possible to do this and does the ISA570 need an external IP address in order to leverage the other functions?

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ISA
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