The EICAR Standard Anti-Virus Test File

Here's a script to send it, replace wendroid@ycombinator.com and mail.anybots.com with your desired target and superman@krypton.pl as your nasty hackar

    echo 'helo ycombinator.com
    MAIL FROM: <superman@krypton.pl>
    RCPT TO: <wendroid@ycombinator.com>
    DATA
    Subject: virus trigger
    To: wendroid@ycombinator.com
    From: superman@krypton.pl
    Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=----------yeODUdrHXSboO0pEkHkAqW
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 17:42:00 +0100

    ------------yeODUdrHXSboO0pEkHkAqW
    Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-15
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

    have a virus matey

    ------------yeODUdrHXSboO0pEkHkAqW
    Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=eicar_com.zip
    Content-Type: application/zip; name=eicar_com.zip
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: Base64

    UEsDBAoAAAAAAOCYuCg8z1FoRAAAAEQAAAAJAAAAZWljYXIuY29tWDVPIVAlQEFQ
    WzRcUFpYNTQoUF4pN0NDKTd9JEVJQ0FSLVNUQU5EQVJELUFOVElWSVJVUy1URVNU
    LUZJTEUhJEgrSCpQSwECFAAKAAAAAADgmLgoPM9RaEQAAABEAAAACQAAAAAAAAAB
    ACAA/4EAAAAAZWljYXIuY29tUEsFBgAAAAABAAEANwAAAGsAAAAAAA==

    ------------yeODUdrHXSboO0pEkHkAqW--
    .' | nc  mail.anybots.com 25 # ycombinator.com's mx

and while we're here, let's send some certified SPAM

    echo 'MAIL FROM: <superman@krypton.pl>
    RCPT TO: <wendroid@ycombinator.com>
    DATA
    Subject: spam trigger
    To: wendroid@ycombinator.com
    From: superman@krypton.pl
    Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 17:42:00 +0100
    
    some spam

    XJS*C4JDBQADN1.NSBN3*2IDNEN*GTUBE-STANDARD-ANTI-UBE-TEST-EMAIL*C.34X

    .' | nc  mail.anybots.com 25 # ycombinator.com's mx