Re: Will the Sasser worm become the next Blaster?

[Damian Menscher <menscher () uiuc edu>]

Gadi Evron <ge linuxbox org> wrote:
> if you simply port scan for Sasser you get many false positives, as
> that port (5554) is also used by Oracle. If you get "200 OK" as a
> reply though in the first packet, it's Sasser.

Another false positive is IRIX boxes which listen to port 5554/tcp for
esp-httpd (their "Embedded Support Partner").  From the default
/etc/inetd.conf:
sgi-esphttp stream  tcp wait   root  /usr/etc/esphttpd   esphttpd -u300

To cut down on false positives, I tried scanning for BOTH 5554/tcp AND
9996/tcp.  Unfortunately we found that very few (about 2%) of the
infected machines had both ports open.  Another 1% had only port
9996/tcp open.  The remaining 97% had only 5554 open.

Damian Menscher
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