RE: HTTP worm?

["Dario Ciccarone (dciccaro)" <dciccaro () cisco com>]

Using port 80/tcp or any other well-known port (23/tcp, 22/tcp, 21/tcp,
etc.) was an old trick back when firewalls were nothing more than
stateless ACLs and people neede to allow 'return traffic' from those
ports for connections initiated from the inside (and forgot the
"established" keyword ;))

Maybe someone is trying the same old technique again? And hoping it
flies under the radar? What packets are you seeing? Are those SYN? FIN?
What tool gave you the alarm? An IDS? IPS? Netflow?

The fact of not having PTR records is interesting - but NOT teling.
Think "people on PPPoE/DHCP hosting their own web server for sharing X,
and not using DynDNS or similar service"

Setup a honeypot? Become the next Clifford Stoll ? :)

Dario
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Huston [mailto:huston () astro princeton edu] 
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 7:52 AM
> To: incidents () securityfocus com
> Subject: HTTP worm?
>
> I don't have any details or traffic to show for it, but since Friday
> I've seen an awful lot of complaints from my firewall about 
> "port scans"
> coming from remote hosts port 80 to 1-2 ports on machines in my
> department.  The first ones I noticed were coming from a web server on
> campus but outside my control, and since then I've seen them from many
> other sites (most if not all of which have no PTR records).
>
> Is there some kind of worm that I haven't paid attention to that might
> be causing this, or would my time be better spent looking for 
> a network
> issue instead?  When I discovered it on Friday, I thought it could be
> due to delayed responses which took longer than the firewall's session
> timeout to return, but then finding these packets coming from 
> hosts with
> no PTR makes me wonder if it's something more nefarious.
>
> -- 
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