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DMARC report for mails I didn’t send

Çağlar Arlı      -    29 Views

DMARC report for mails I didn’t send

I set up DKIM, DMARC and SPF on my domain/server a few years ago, and never touched it again since then.

Here are my DNS records (my domain is mydomain.com and my IP addresses are 1.1.1.1 and 2001::1):

mydomain.com.   0   TXT     "v=spf1 mx a ptr ip4:1.1.1.1 ip6:2001::1 include:_spf.google.com ?all"
dkim._domainkey.mydomain.com.   0   TXT     "v=DKIM1; k=rsa; t=y; p=mykey;"     
_dmarc.mydomain.com.    0   TXT     "v=DMARC1; p=none; sp=none; rua=mailto:postmaster@mydomain.com; ruf=mailto:postmaster@mydomain.com; rf=afrf; pct=100; ri=86400"

I assumed that the configuration was OK, because DMARC reports I've been receiving for all this time seemed to be fine. An example of legit and valid DMARC report I received a few days ago:

<feedback>
    <report_metadata>
        <org_name>google.com</org_name>
        <email>noreply-dmarc-support@google.com</email>
        <extra_contact_info>https://support.google.com/a/answer/2466580</extra_contact_info>
        <report_id>XXX</report_id>
        <date_range>
            <begin>1570579200</begin>
            <end>1570665599</end>
        </date_range>
    </report_metadata>
    <policy_published>
        <domain>mydomain.com</domain>
        <adkim>r</adkim>
        <aspf>r</aspf>
        <p>none</p>
        <sp>none</sp>
        <pct>100</pct>
    </policy_published>
    <record>
        <row>
            <source_ip>1.1.1.1</source_ip>
            <count>1</count>
            <policy_evaluated>
                <disposition>none</disposition>
                <dkim>pass</dkim>
                <spf>pass</spf>
            </policy_evaluated>
        </row>
        <identifiers>
            <header_from>mydomain.com</header_from>
        </identifiers>
        <auth_results>
            <dkim>
                <domain>mydomain.com</domain>
                <result>pass</result>
                <selector>dkim</selector>
            </dkim>
            <spf>
                <domain>mydomain.com</domain>
                <result>pass</result>
            </spf>
        </auth_results>
    </record>
</feedback>

Now the problem

For the first time ever, and for two days in a row, I've been receiving DMARC reports from mail.ru for emails I'm sure I didn't send. Although these DMARC reports show that both DKIM and SPF verifications failed (this should be reassuring, right?), I'm a bit worried of what it actually means. I've also checked my postfix logs, but nothing showed up.

This is the report I received this morning:

<feedback>
    <report_metadata>
        <org_name>Mail.Ru</org_name>
        <email>dmarc_support@corp.mail.ru</email>
        <extra_contact_info>http://help.mail.ru/mail-help</extra_contact_info>
        <report_id>XXX</report_id>
        <date_range>
            <begin>1571443200</begin>
            <end>1571529600</end>
        </date_range>
    </report_metadata>
    <policy_published>
        <domain>mydomain.com</domain>
        <adkim>r</adkim>
        <aspf>r</aspf>
        <p>none</p>
        <sp>none</sp>
        <pct>100</pct>
    </policy_published>
    <record>
        <row>
            <source_ip>50.205.119.150</source_ip>
            <count>1</count>
            <policy_evaluated>
                <disposition>none</disposition>
                <dkim>fail</dkim>
                <spf>fail</spf>
            </policy_evaluated>
        </row>
        <identifiers>
            <header_from>somesubdomain.mydomain.com</header_from>
        </identifiers>
        <auth_results>
            <spf>
                <domain>somesubdomain.mydomain.com</domain>
                <scope>mfrom</scope>
                <result>neutral</result>
            </spf>
        </auth_results>
    </record>
    <record>
        <row>
            <source_ip>46.225.251.206</source_ip>
            <count>1</count>
            <policy_evaluated>
                <disposition>none</disposition>
                <dkim>fail</dkim>
                <spf>fail</spf>
            </policy_evaluated>
        </row>
        <identifiers>
            <header_from>somesubdomain.mydomain.com</header_from>
        </identifiers>
        <auth_results>
            <spf>
                <domain>somesubdomain.mydomain.com</domain>
                <scope>mfrom</scope>
                <result>neutral</result>
            </spf>
        </auth_results>
    </record>
    <record>
        <row>
            <source_ip>66.208.117.227</source_ip>
            <count>1</count>
            <policy_evaluated>
                <disposition>none</disposition>
                <dkim>fail</dkim>
                <spf>fail</spf>
            </policy_evaluated>
        </row>
        <identifiers>
            <header_from>somesubdomain.mydomain.com</header_from>
        </identifiers>
        <auth_results>
            <spf>
                <domain>somesubdomain.mydomain.com</domain>
                <scope>mfrom</scope>
                <result>neutral</result>
            </spf>
        </auth_results>
    </record>
</feedback>

Is there something I should worry about?