RE: Zombie / Botnet?

["Barry Raveendran Greene" <bgreene () senki org>]

The dirty secret that the people are not letting you know is that anti-virus
obsolete. The people who build and deploy malware know how to obfuscate the
code so that anti-virus does not pick it up. The really lame "bad guys" will
obfuscate once a week - requiring the anti-virus team to deploy a new sig
once a week. The really good bad guys will obfuscate ever 15 minutes - using
the same malware package as the "lame" bad guys. 

Note, might be malware command and control. See if there is any DNS. If you
see really weird queries (like teraazxi.(somedomain).(some TLD)) then it is
a BOT talking to a controller.

For remediation - I have my own list I build that is based on this work:

http://home.comcast.net/~SupportCD/MalwareRemoval.html

You sometimes have to tune it to the specific malware (using different clean
up tools).


> -----Original Message-----
> From: listbounce () securityfocus com
> [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of Tony Raboza
> Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 4:05 AM
> To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: Zombie / Botnet?
>
> Hi,
>
> One of our workstations is broadcasting a huge amount of UDP traffic
> (around 5Mbps) and I'm thinking it could be a zombied computer doing
> DDOS as directed by its controller.  But the weird thing is - it has
> an updated McAfee AV with HIPS ??  Why was this not detected - or
> could I be reading this wrong?  Here's a portion of the tcpdump:
>
> 14:00:20.509030 IP 192.168.10.10.smpppd > i.root-servers.net.hpstgmgr:
> UDP, length 1000
> 14:00:20.519512 IP 192.168.10.10.iiw-port > 77.91.227.67.4744: UDP,
> length 1000
> 14:00:20.520580 IP 192.168.10.10.odi-port > a.root-servers.net.4496:
> UDP, length 1000
> 14:00:20.521733 IP 192.168.10.10.brcm-comm-port >
> b.root-servers.net.4710: UDP, length 1000
> 14:00:20.523076 IP 192.168.10.10.pcle-infex > c.root-servers.net.826:
> UDP, length 1000
> 14:00:20.524186 IP 192.168.10.10.csvr-proxy > d.root-servers.net.3997:
> UDP, length 1000
> 14:00:20.525251 IP 192.168.10.10.csvr-sslproxy >
> E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.funk-license: UDP, length 1000
> 14:00:20.526385 IP 192.168.10.10.firemonrcc >
> f.root-servers.net.sonuscallsig: UDP, length 1000
> 14:00:20.527798 IP 192.168.10.10.spandataport >
> G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.4130: UDP, length 1000
> 14:00:20.528794 IP 192.168.10.10.magbind > h.root-servers.net.atmtcp:
> UDP, length 1000
> 14:00:20.529947 IP 192.168.10.10.ncu-1 >
> i.root-servers.net.direcpc-dll: UDP, length 1000
> 14:00:20.537027 IP 192.168.10.10.ncu-2 > 77.91.227.67.audit-transfer:
> UDP, length 1000
> 14:00:20.538422 IP 192.168.10.10.embrace-dp-s >
> 77.91.227.67.bluelance: UDP, length 1000
> 14:00:20.538712 IP 192.168.10.10.embrace-dp-c >
> a.root-servers.net.embrace-dp-s: UDP, length 1000
> 14:00:20.540010 IP 192.168.10.10.dmod-workspace >
> b.root-servers.net.bvcontrol: UDP, length 1000
> 14:00:20.540208 IP 192.168.10.10.tick-port > a.root-servers.net.925:
> UDP, length 1000
> 14:00:20.541412 IP 192.168.10.10.cpq-tasksmart >
> b.root-servers.net.bnt-manager: UDP, length 1000
> 14:00:20.541756 IP 192.168.10.10.intraintra > c.root-servers.net.864:
> UDP, length 1000
> 14:00:20.542941 IP 192.168.10.10.netwatcher-mon >
> c.root-servers.net.sbi-agent: UDP, length 1000
> 14:00:20.544113 IP 192.168.10.10.netwatcher-db >
> d.root-servers.net.4467: UDP, length 1000
> 14:00:20.544400 IP 192.168.10.10.isns > d.root-servers.net.4245: UDP,
> length 1000
> 14:00:20.545444 IP 192.168.10.10.ironmail > E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.2374:
> UDP, length 1000
>
>
> ==
>
> Its sending UDP traffic to the root nameservers ....
>
> Any ideas?
> Thanks.
>
>
> Best,
> Tony
>
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