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  • From: Jim Rarus
  • Date: Mon Jul 31 11:33:37 2000

Is Merit blocking this for us??

>>> Dan Zegarac <zegarac@merit.edu> 7/31/00 10:34:18 AM >>>
>Delivered-To: zegarac@home.merit.edu 
>Delivered-To: zegarac@merit.edu 
>Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 16:40:41 -0600 (MDT)
>From: The SANS Institute <sans@sans.org>
>Subject: SANS FLASH: New Trojan Sending Data To Russia
>To: Dan Zegarac <zegarac@merit.edu>
>
>SANS Flash Report: Trojans Sending More Data To Russia
>July 28, 2000, 6:20 pm, EDT
>
>This is preliminary information.  The GIAC (Global Incident
>Analysis Center) has received several submissions showing large
>amounts of data being sent, illegitimately, from Windows 98
>machines to a Russian IP address (194.87.6.X).  The cause is most
>probably a Trojan, but whatever it is, it is moving fast.
>
>What you should do?
>
>1. All sites should block network traffic from or to 194.87.6.X
>2. If you see outgoing traffic from one of your machines to that
>address, you should pull it from the network until anti-virus
>signatures are available.
>
>This activity has been going on for a few days, but the
>correlations are just coming in.  If you have information to
>share, please send it to intrusion@sans.org.
>
>The remainder of this message is fairly technical and meant to
>help system administrators and firewall administrators protect
>their systems.
>
>Thank you!
>
>Stephen Northcutt, Director Global Incident Analysis Center
>The SANS Institute
>
>> From SANS GIAC Report 00/07/28
>>(dhoelzer)
>>    This one came in at about 20:16 on July 26. The 194.87.6.201
>machine interestingly enough, resolves back to .ru. There is
>no other traffic to or from this network (194.87.6.X) for the
>last two months of live data that I have online. It's hard to
>make a guess on this one. Perhaps the machine that recorded
>this is on a proxy list somewhere, but then, this machine is a
>brand new honeypot on an IP address that hasn't been populated
>for at least 7 years, and has never been used as a proxy server.
>If this is just a random stab, it's interesting that there is
>no record of any network mapping from this network/host.
>Perhaps there was some coordinated mapping here, or perhaps
>there is someone out there who has mapped us already who was
>willing to share (or moved to a new network).
>>
>>    bash# cat 8080
>>    Initializing server socket...Binding to port 8080...Done.
>>    Starting listener...Listening.
>>    Connection from: 194.87.6.201
>>        0| 47 45 54 20 68 74 74 70 3a 2f 2f 77 77 77 2e 63
>>       16| 6f 6d 6d 69 73 73 69 6f 6e 2d 6a 75 6e 63 74 69
>>       32| 6f 6e 2e 63 6f 6d 2f 20 48 54 54 50 2f 31 2e 31
>>       48| 0d 0a 48 6f 73 74 3a 20 77 77 77 2e 63 6f 6d 6d
>>       64| 69 73 73 69 6f 6e 2d 6a 75 6e 63 74 69 6f 6e 2e
>>       80| 63 6f 6d 0d 0a 41 63 63 65 70 74 3a 20 2a 2f 2a
>>       96| 0d 0a 50 72 61 67 6d 61 3a 20 6e 6f 2d 63 61 63
>>      112| 68 65 0d 0a 55 73 65 72 2d 41 67 65 6e 74 3a 20
>>         +-------------------------------------------------
>>        0|  G  E  T     h  t  t  p  :  /  /  w  w  w  .  c
>>       16|  o  m  m  i  s  s  i  o  n  -  j  u  n  c  t  i
>>       32|  o  n  .  c  o  m  /     H  T  T  P  /  1  .  1
>>       48|  .  .  H  o  s  t  :     w  w  w  .  c  o  m  m
>>       64|  i  s  s  i  o  n  -  j  u  n  c  t  i  o  n  .
>>       80|  c  o  m  .  .  A  c  c  e  p  t  :     *  /  *
>>       96|  .  .  P  r  a  g  m  a  :     n  o  -  c  a  c
>>      112|  h  e  .  .  U  s  e  r  -  A  g  e  n  t  :
>>      128|  M  o  z  i  l  l  a  /  4  .  0     (  c  o  m
>>      144|  p  a  t  i  b  l  e  ;     M  S  I  E     4  .
>>      160|  0  1  ;     W  i  n  d  o  w  s     9  8  )  .
>>      176|  .  .  .
>>         +-------------------------------------------------
>>            0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15
>>    Connection Terminated
>>    bash# nslookup 194.87.6.201
>>    Server:  midgaard.smsc.com
>>    Address:  170.129.53.52
>>    Name:    201.6.87.194.dynamic.dol.ru
>>    Address:  194.87.6.201
>
>+++
>Correlation to Laurie's post to GIAC Report 00/07/28,
>(http://www.sans.org/y2k/072800.htm): 
>
>> (Laurie@.edu)
>>
>>   =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>>
>>   194.87.6.201 == 201.6.87.194.dynamic.dol.ru
>>
>>   RU-DEMOS-940901
>>
>>   Included this because of the Russian source address.
>>
>>   Jul 26 22:26:23 hostka snort[20224]: MISC-WinGate-8080-
>Attempt:
>>     194.87.6.201:3344 -> a.b.c.32:8080
>
>http and Wingate connection attempts from the same
>`dynamic.dol.ru'
>domain:
>
>Name:    27.6.87.194.dynamic.dol.ru
>Address:  194.87.6.27
>
>Jul 27 19:30:08 foo /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP a.b.c.8:80
>from 194.87.6.27:4156
>
>Name:    147.6.87.194.dynamic.dol.ru
>Address:  194.87.6.147
>
>[**] WinGate 8080 Attempt [**]
>07/24-23:04:39.418351 194.87.6.147:3185 -> a.b.c.8:8080
>TCP TTL:120 TOS:0x0 ID:12966  DF
>**S***** Seq: 0x540140   Ack: 0x0   Win: 0x2000
>TCP Options => MSS: 536 NOP NOP SackOK
>
>[**] WinGate 8080 Attempt [**]
>07/24-23:04:40.502718 194.87.6.147:3185 -> a.b.c.8:8080
>TCP TTL:120 TOS:0x0 ID:17318  DF
>**S***** Seq: 0x540140   Ack: 0x0   Win: 0x2000
>TCP Options => MSS: 536 NOP NOP SackOK
>
>[**] WinGate 8080 Attempt [**]
>07/24-23:04:41.521379 194.87.6.147:3185 -> a.b.c.8:8080
>TCP TTL:120 TOS:0x0 ID:27302  DF
>**S***** Seq: 0x540140   Ack: 0x0   Win: 0x2000
>TCP Options => MSS: 536 NOP NOP SackOK
>
>
>The system trace below was found by a conseal firewall:
>2000/07/27 9:15:19 PM GMT -0400: NDC 10/100 Fast E..[0001][No
>matching rule] Blocking outgoing TCP: src=24.114.my.ip,
>dst=194.87.6.27, sport=8080, dport=2418.
>2000/07/27 9:15:22 PM GMT -0400: NDC 10/100 Fast E..[0001][Ref#
>181] Blocking incoming connection attempt: src=194.87.6.27, local
>port 8080.
>
>
>

Dan Zegarac                     | Title:  Internet Consultant
Merit Network, Inc.             | E-mail: zegarac@merit.edu 
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