Claim

Waledac USES SMTP

Waledac contained an SMTP engine capable of communicating with an SMTP server and sending email.

Episode
EP 110 — Spam Botnets
Origin
Explicit
Confidence
99% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Jack Rhysider
Attributed source
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Transcript evidence

“In the core binaries of the malware was an SMTP engine which could communicate with an SMTP server and send e-mails.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 36375–36491

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Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T07:27:59.382568+00:00

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