Re: Wierd non-http port 80 daemon?

[Greg Tracy <greg () sixx com>]

Broken honeypot maybe?

G

> From: Dani Wuck <wuck () chello nl>
> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 18:44:06 +0100
> To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: Wierd non-http port 80 daemon?
>
> G'day. My first post here, and I truly hope I've come to the right place.
>
> I've been scanning a box, and it's - lightly taken - set up very
> insecure. Many open ports, etc. One thing I find strange is the
> following: The box is open on port 80. But if you telnet into it, it
> doesn't act anything like a HTTP daemon.
>
> #1. If you connect to it, it waits for remote input.
> #2. It accepts a certain number of chars before it closes the connection.
> #3. If you immediately send the max. number of chars, (or more) the
> connection is closed at once.
> #4. You can send five times an 'a', and then get disconnected.
> #5. If you'd send 'abc', you'll get disconnected after < 5 times
> (usually 3 or 2)
> #6. Every time you send something, (except doing #3) it returns some
> ASCII that seems to be different everytime. (even if you keep sending
> the same)
>
> So .. what do you think I'm looking at? A trojan or something?
> Guessing on its open ports I believe it's a WinME OEM, Win2000 or
> (probably) WinXP box. (UPNP enabled)
>
> I'm eager to notify its user, but I first really want to know what that
> port 80 deamon is :)
>
> - wuck
>
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