On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Ian Perry wrote:

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alan Shutko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 11:18 PM
>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>> Subject: Re: code red goes on
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>> "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes:
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>> > Anyone noting trends between 7/20 and 8/2?  I've got 30 v. 49,
>> > respectively.  Looks like this is actually the bigger attack.
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>> http://www.incidents.org says that we've already gotten more infected
>> machines than July 20th, although probes seem to have leveled off.
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>> I've heard that this is a slight change on the original code red which
>> seeds the RNG used to pick hosts to try, and it's thus hitting lots of
>> hosts which weren't in the first round.
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>There has definately been a change in the original form of the attacks from
># GET /default.ida?NNNNN -snip- NN%u9090% -snip- 0%u00=a  HTTP/1.0

normal CodeRed

>to
># GET /default.ida?XXXXX -snip- XX%u9090% -snip- 0%u00=a  HTTP/1.0

CodeRed2.  Nastier: it also copies cmd.exe to root.exe, and installs a
pseudo-r00tkit.  If the IIS admins didn't learn the first time, they got
screwed hardcore the second.  Not even a reacharound this time.

>The second packet is also much shorter (with less X's), although the tail is
>the same.
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>The increase in traffic over the last few days has been marked.
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>Sept  -        0 hits
>1 Aug  -       3 hits  0.1 per hr
>2 Aug -        22 hits 0.9/hr
>3 Aug -        33 Hits 1.4/hr
>4 Aug -        41 Hits 1.7/hr
>5 Aug -        167 Hits        6.9/hr
>6 Aug -        79 Hits 10.0/hr (only 8 hrs of data)
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>I can see this is going to be a real problem in the upcoming weeks.
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>I have noticed on the end of each access in the log, Apache gives "404 205"
>404 I guess means page not found, but on two occassions it looks like
>it gave a "200 - ".  Strange.  I thought a valid access was 200.
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>Ian
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