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Port 33434 and decoy-scanning


From: jrw () SYSTEM SIKKERHET NO (Jan Roger Wilkens)
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 10:58:14 +0100


Lately I have seen traffic towards port 33434 UDP on various networks.
Normal traceroute starts with port 33434, but the destination-port is
supposed to increase with each new packet. The traffic I've seen lately uses
port 33434 as destionation-port for all packets.

Today I also saw something resembling a decoy-scan towards port 33434. The
output from NFR from this scan is below. (If anyone is interessted in more
of this traffic, I can email it.) The timestamp is only valid down to 5 min.
intervals.

This network does not normally receive more than 1-3 normal traceroutes per
24 hours.

Does anyone have any idea of what this is?

This is all UDP-traffic:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Time                      Source             S.port  Dest IP            D.IP       Bytes    #
2000.03.07-17:00:00 216.33.87.8       2716 xxx.xxx.xxx.37   33434      78
1
                    216.33.87.8       2717 xxx.xxx.xxx.37   33434      78
1
                    216.33.87.8       2718 xxx.xxx.xxx.37   33434      78
1
                    216.33.87.8       2719 xxx.xxx.xxx.37   33434      78
1
                    216.33.87.8       2720 xxx.xxx.xxx.37   33434      78
1
2000.03.07-17:05:00 167.8.29.91       2815 xxx.xxx.xxx.37   33434      78
1
                    167.8.29.91       2816 xxx.xxx.xxx.37   33434      78
1
                    167.8.29.91       2817 xxx.xxx.xxx.37   33434      78
1
                    167.8.29.91       2818 xxx.xxx.xxx.37   33434      78
1
                    167.8.29.91       2819 xxx.xxx.xxx.37   33434      78
1
2000.03.07-17:15:00 209.67.29.10      2714 xxx.xxx.xxx.37   33434      78
1
                    209.67.29.10      2715 xxx.xxx.xxx.37   33434      78
1
                    209.67.29.10      2716 xxx.xxx.xxx.37   33434      78
1
                    209.67.29.10      2717 xxx.xxx.xxx.37   33434      78
1
                    209.67.29.10      2718 xxx.xxx.xxx.37   33434      78
1
                    209.67.29.10      2719 xxx.xxx.xxx.37   33434      78
1
2000.03.07-17:30:00 209.67.29.8       2814 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434      78
1
                    209.67.29.8       2815 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434      78
1
2000.03.07-17:35:00 209.67.29.10      2714 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434     156
2
                    167.8.29.52       2715 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434      78
1
                    209.67.29.10      2715 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434     156
2
                    167.8.29.52       2716 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434      78
1
                    209.67.29.10      2716 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434     156
2
                    216.33.87.8       2716 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434      78
1
                    167.8.29.52       2717 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434      78
1
                    209.67.29.10      2717 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434     156
2
                    216.33.87.8       2717 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434      78
1
                    167.8.29.52       2718 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434      78
1
                    209.67.29.10      2718 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434     156
2
                    216.33.87.8       2718 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434      78
1
                    167.8.29.52       2719 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434      78
1
                    209.67.29.10      2719 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434      78
1
                    216.33.87.8       2719 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434      78
1
                    216.33.87.8       2720 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434      78
1
                    206.251.19.88     2814 xxx.xxx.xxx.37   33434      78
1
                    206.251.19.89     2814 xxx.xxx.xxx.37   33434     156
2
                    167.8.29.91       2815 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434      78
1
                    206.251.19.88     2815 xxx.xxx.xxx.37   33434      78
1
                    206.251.19.89     2815 xxx.xxx.xxx.37   33434     156
2
                    167.8.29.91       2816 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434      78
1
                    206.251.19.88     2816 xxx.xxx.xxx.37   33434      78
1
                    206.251.19.89     2816 xxx.xxx.xxx.37   33434     156
2
                    209.67.29.8       2816 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434      78
1
                    216.33.87.10      2816 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434      78
1
                    167.8.29.91       2817 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434      78
1
                    206.251.19.88     2817 xxx.xxx.xxx.37   33434      78
1
                    206.251.19.89     2817 xxx.xxx.xxx.37   33434     156
2
                    209.67.29.8       2817 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434      78
1
                    216.33.87.10      2817 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434      78
1
                    167.8.29.91       2818 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434      78
1
                    206.251.19.88     2818 xxx.xxx.xxx.37   33434      78
1
                    206.251.19.89     2818 xxx.xxx.xxx.37   33434     156
2
                    209.67.29.8       2818 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434      78
1
                    216.33.87.10      2818 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434      78
1
                    167.8.29.91       2819 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434      78
1
                    216.33.87.10      2819 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434      78
1
                    216.33.87.10      2820 xxx.xxx.xxx.40   33434      78
1
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Example of a normal traceroute towards the same network in the same
time-period:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Time                      Source             S.port  Dest IP            D.IP       Bytes    #
2000.03.07-11:10:00 208.196.3.122    52545 xxx.xxx.xxx.204  33447      60
1
                    208.196.3.122    52545 xxx.xxx.xxx.204  33448      60
1
                    208.196.3.122    52545 xxx.xxx.xxx.204  33449      60
1
                    208.196.3.122    52545 xxx.xxx.xxx.204  33450      60
1
                    208.196.3.122    52545 xxx.xxx.xxx.204  33451      60
1
                    208.196.3.122    52545 xxx.xxx.xxx.204  33452      60
1
2000.03.07-11:15:00 208.196.3.122    52545 xxx.xxx.xxx.204  33453      60
1
                    208.196.3.122    52545 xxx.xxx.xxx.204  33454      60
1
                    208.196.3.122    52545 xxx.xxx.xxx.204  33455      60
1
                    208.196.3.122    52545 xxx.xxx.xxx.204  33456      60
1
                    208.196.3.122    52545 xxx.xxx.xxx.204  33457      60
1
                    208.196.3.122    52545 xxx.xxx.xxx.204  33458      60
1
                    208.196.3.122    52545 xxx.xxx.xxx.204  33459      60
1
                    208.196.3.122    52545 xxx.xxx.xxx.204  33460      60
1
                    208.196.3.122    52545 xxx.xxx.xxx.204  33461      60
1
                    208.196.3.122    52545 xxx.xxx.xxx.204  33462      60
1
                    208.196.3.122    52545 xxx.xxx.xxx.204  33463      60
1
                    208.196.3.122    52545 xxx.xxx.xxx.204  33464      60
1
                    208.196.3.122    52545 xxx.xxx.xxx.204  33465      60
1
                    208.196.3.122    52545 xxx.xxx.xxx.204  33466      60
1
                    208.196.3.122    52545 xxx.xxx.xxx.204  33467      60
1
                    208.196.3.122    52545 xxx.xxx.xxx.204  33468      60
1
                    208.196.3.122    52545 xxx.xxx.xxx.204  33469      60
1
                    208.196.3.122    52545 xxx.xxx.xxx.204  33470      60
1
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Jan Roger Wilkens.


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