exchange_webshell_detection VS postfix

Compare exchange_webshell_detection vs postfix and see what are their differences.

exchange_webshell_detection

Detect webshells dropped on Microsoft Exchange servers exploited through "proxylogon" group of vulnerabilites (CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, CVE-2021-27065) (by cert-lv)

postfix

Postfix MTA by Wietse Venema (by vdukhovni)
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exchange_webshell_detection postfix
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4.4 8.1
about 3 years ago 13 days ago
PowerShell C
- GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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exchange_webshell_detection

Posts with mentions or reviews of exchange_webshell_detection. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-05.

postfix

Posts with mentions or reviews of postfix. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-04.
  • New Linux glibc flaw lets attackers get root on major distros
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Feb 2024
    FWIW C can do it too to some extent, here's postfix: https://github.com/vdukhovni/postfix/blob/master/postfix/src...
  • At Least 30k U.S. Organizations Newly Hacked via Holes in MS’s Email Software
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Mar 2021
    Postfix.

    But that’s only an MTA i hear you cry, Exchange does both MTA & MDA! Bear with me.

    Postfix is software to learn from. It might be written in C but the architecture is the epitome of beautiful modular design. It’s not just the meticulous separation of concerns, the care and attention to detail, everything from string handling to memory management is pristinely handled. https://github.com/vdukhovni/postfix

    Even at runtime the beauty of the architecture allows for a sysadmin to choose (via master.cf) exactly how the components should be composed to fit their needs. The defaults are crafted for minimum fuss if you just need to get it running ASAP. The software is ergonomic in addition to being artfully crafted.

    So what does all this care and attention get you? Only 9 CVEs in 22 years, only 3 of which are code exec, only 2 of which are (maybe) remote code exec, only 1 of which is unauth user RCE - but very hard in practice to exploit.

    Maybe it’s just not that popular? It was 1/3 of all SMTP servers on the internet according to a 2019 scan.

    So it’s the best MTA ever to exist, but what about MDA? Well, that was the whole point. Compose well crafted components together to build a system. You especially don’t run part of your mailserver’s web interface in kernel space because, well i’m not sure why IIS/Exchange does that :-)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing exchange_webshell_detection and postfix you can also consider the following projects:

CSS-Exchange - Exchange Server support tools and scripts

OpenSMTPD - This is official OpenSMTPD Portable repository. Forks, pull requests and other contributions are welcome!

PowerZure - PowerShell framework to assess Azure security

Haraka - A fast, highly extensible, and event driven SMTP server

Cyber-Defence - Information released publicly by NCC Group's Cyber Incident Response Team

Get-ExchangeEnvironmentReport - This script creates an HTML report showing the following information about an Exchange 2019, 2016, 2013, 2010, and, to a lesser extent, 2007 and 2003 environment.

Mailu - Insular email distribution - mail server as Docker images

Encrypt-Delete-Test - Really can protect from ransomware encryption?