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Re: RE: Any dissasemblies of the Witty worm yet?
From: Byron Copeland <nodialtone () comcast net>
Date: 21 Mar 2004 17:14:34 -0500
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 16:18, Matthew Murphy wrote:
"Hugh Mann" <hughmann () hotmail com> writes:3. If someone can trace the origin of this worm, it might shed light ontheorigin of SQL Slammer as well?Definitely a big NO.Indeed this does appear to be accurate. While it looks as though the worm is technically similar to Slammer, think about the odds. Both used a non-broadcast UDP exploit vector. Why on _earth_ would the programmer re-write the code for the worm when he could steal half of his code from SQL slammer? It doesn't necessarily show that the two worms were written by people of even similar background, but it does seem to show that the author of the BlackICE worm used Slammer's techniques -- possibly even to the extent of simply ripping large portions of Slammer and changing the IAT offsets used to reflect those of the ISS PAM. Another possibility is that Slammer and Witty were generated in source form by some kind of "worm generator" -- but I don't have any information to suggest that this is the case. My conclusion is that the author of Witty simply copied large portions of Slammer's code, completely wholesale.
I've seen the slammer code as hex dumps, etc, but haven't seen the any original slammer source code. Just wondering how anyone could make any determinations of any comparisons to either when the coding style really isn't known. Maybe I am the only one who missed seeing the original code. -b
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- RE: Any dissasemblies of the Witty worm yet? Disclosure From OSSI (Mar 20)
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- RE: RE: Any dissasemblies of the Witty worm yet? Hugh Mann (Mar 21)
- Re: RE: Any dissasemblies of the Witty worm yet? Matthew Murphy (Mar 21)
- Re: RE: Any dissasemblies of the Witty worm yet? Byron Copeland (Mar 21)
- RE: RE: Any dissasemblies of the Witty worm yet? Disclosure From OSSI (Mar 22)
- RE: RE: Any dissasemblies of the Witty worm yet? Byron Copeland (Mar 23)
- Re: RE: Any dissasemblies of the Witty worm yet? Matthew Murphy (Mar 21)