spoolss overflow attempt: unknow threat or false alert ?

["Buozis, Martynas" <martynas () ti com>]

Hello

I see many packets coming from various hosts to few servers (both
clients and servers are inside Intranet) that are identified by SNORT as
NETBIOS SMB spoolss AddPrinterEx unicode little endian overflow attempt.
I checked source hosts with AV and spyware software but found nothing,
while these packets continue to flow persistently in large amounts. Is
it some false positive by SNORT or is it an unknown security threat
(trojan/worm/virus) behind this activity? Is this packet really complies
signature of real hacking attempt? Can somebody tell me what real threat
is in typical packet, if any?  What can be real risk behind these
packages ?

Typical packet payload look following:

000 : 00 00 02 52 FF 53 4D 42 25 00 00 00 00 18 03 80   ...R.SMB%.......
010 : D1 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 98   ................
020 : 64 00 C0 00 10 00 00 FE 01 00 00 00 04 00 00 00   d...............
030 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 54 00 FE 01 54 00 02   .........T...T..
040 : 00 26 00 61 73 0F 02 5C 5C 00 50 00 49 00 50 00   .&.as..\\.P.I.P.
050 : 45 00 5C 00 00 00 00 5C 05 00 00 03 10 00 00 00   E.\....\........
060 : FE 01 00 00 01 00 00 00 E6 01 00 00 00 00 46 00   ..............F.
070 : 98 FE 2D 03 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00   ..-.............
080 : 5C 00 5C 00 46 00 46 00 41 00 42 00 53 00 4D 00   \.\.F.F.A.B.S.M.
090 : 42 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 50 FE 2D 03   B...........P.-.
0a0 : 18 08 00 00 E4 F5 2D 03 24 FC 2D 03 58 F1 CA 02   ......-.$.-.X...
0b0 : 51 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 51 00 00 00 5C 00 5C 00   Q.......Q...\.\.
0c0 : 4F 00 4E 00 59 00 58 00 5C 00 77 00 66 00 72 00   O.N.Y.X.\.w.f.r.
0d0 : 73 00 74 00 6B 00 31 00 2C 00 48 00 50 00 20 00   s.t.k.1.,.H.P. .
0e0 : 4C 00 61 00 73 00 65 00 72 00 4A 00 65 00 74 00   L.a.s.e.r.J.e.t.
0f0 : 20 00 34 00 30 00 35 00 30 00 20 00 53 00 65 00    .4.0.5.0. .S.e.
100 : 72 00 69 00 65 00 73 00 20 00 50 00 53 00 2C 00   r.i.e.s. .P.S.,.
110 : 42 00 6C 00 64 00 67 00 2E 00 20 00 33 00 20 00   B.l.d.g... .3. .
120 : 53 00 2E 00 20 00 50 00 72 00 6F 00 62 00 65 00   S... .P.r.o.b.e.
130 : 20 00 6E 00 65 00 78 00 74 00 20 00 74 00 6F 00    .n.e.x.t. .t.o.
140 : 20 00 74 00 68 00 65 00 20 00 4F 00 6C 00 69 00    .t.h.e. .O.l.i.
150 : 20 00 49 00 6E 00 6B 00 65 00 72 00 00 00 72 00    .I.n.k.e.r...r.
160 : 0F 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0F 00 00 00 5C 00 5C 00   ............\.\.
170 : 4F 00 4E 00 59 00 58 00 5C 00 77 00 66 00 72 00   O.N.Y.X.\.w.f.r.
180 : 73 00 74 00 6B 00 31 00 00 00 31 00 2D 00 00 00   s.t.k.1...1.-...
190 : 00 00 00 00 2D 00 00 00 48 00 50 00 20 00 4C 00   ....-...H.P. .L.
1a0 : 4A 00 34 00 30 00 35 00 30 00 20 00 2D 00 20 00   J.4.0.5.0. .-. .
1b0 : 32 00 34 00 4D 00 62 00 20 00 72 00 61 00 6D 00   2.4.M.b. .r.a.m.
1c0 : 20 00 2D 00 20 00 41 00 6C 00 73 00 6F 00 20 00    .-. .A.l.s.o. .
1d0 : 61 00 20 00 44 00 41 00 5A 00 45 00 4C 00 20 00   a. .D.A.Z.E.L. .
1e0 : 2D 00 20 00 4E 00 54 00 53 00 4E 00 35 00 41 00   -. .N.T.S.N.5.A.
1f0 : 00 00 41 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ..A.............
200 : 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 1C F5 2D 03   ..............-.
210 : 1C 00 00 00 70 03 C7 02 10 F3 2D 03 65 05 00 00   ....p.....-.e...
220 : 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00   ................
230 : 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 5C 00 5C 00 4F 00 4E 00   ........\.\.O.N.
240 : 59 00 58 00 00 00 58 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   Y.X...X.........
250 : 01 00 00 00 00 00                                 ......


Martynas

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