UDP port 4000 traffic: likely a new worm

2004-03-20 Thread Johannes B. Ullrich
Looks like there may be a worm going around hitting systems that run BlackIce. Common characteristics of the packets: Source port 4000 (but random target port) and the string insert witty message here. details will be posted here: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html as I get them together. -- CTO

popupad spam wrapup.

2003-12-04 Thread Johannes B. Ullrich
Thanks everyone here on this list who helped track down this! We just published a (hopefully more or less final) Diary on this topic at http://isc.sans.org/diary.html (see below for text). As it turns out, at least one particular version of the software distributed by PopAdStop.com did include a

port 1026-1031 traffic

2003-12-01 Thread Johannes B. Ullrich
Well, for the last week there has been an odd increase in port 1026-1031 traffic. While everything points to popup spam, there are a few issues that are 'odd': - increase in sources that cause this traffic. - natural source ports vs. crafted source port which is typical for popup spam - 2-byte

DShield reports by AS for 'Blaster' and other issues

2003-08-29 Thread Johannes B. Ullrich
I setup a 'real time' report by AS to assist networks in finding infected systems. The URL: http://www.dshield.org/asreport.php This report is intended for automated parsing, so it comes as a simple tab delimited table with brief 'usage' header. You can filter by target port, protocol and AS.

Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product

2002-05-15 Thread Johannes B. Ullrich
sorry. getting confused by my own tricky url schemes: http://feeds.dshield.org/block.txt On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 17:13, Dan Hollis wrote: On 15 May 2002, Johannes B. Ullrich wrote: See http://www.dshield.org/block.txt ;-). We are about 24hrs away from getting a BGP test feed up. Error

Re: New SubSeven outbreak?

2002-05-12 Thread Johannes B. Ullrich
I have seen 6 portscans looking for SubSeven on a /24 in the past 24 hours. It'd been a while since I had seen *any*, now I'm seeing all these. Is this a new outbreak/vulnerability, or have I just been lucky? Has anybody else seen an increase in scans on tcp port 27374? There are a

Re: anybody else been spammed by no-ip.com yet?

2002-05-03 Thread Johannes B. Ullrich
no spam. But I just took apart an IRC controlled botnet that used their service. (The trojan was a basic 'floodnet' binary and was distributed via email... ) -- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]Join http://www.DShield.org Distributed Intrusion Detection

RE: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S.

2002-04-26 Thread Johannes B. Ullrich
First of all: Does it matter if the Chinese Govt' is launching the attack or the kid next door? Personally, I would think if the Chinese Govt' has any sense at all, they surely look into cyberwar. Which respectable government doesn't ? In my opinion the real problem/story is the uphauling