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RE: CRv2 multiple scans from same source IP


From: Tim Hollebeek <thollebeek () cigital com>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 16:19:47 -0400



NOW: CodeRedII (this name is easily mistaken with CRv2, so 
i would suppose 
another name: i stared calling it ida_root since my first 
analysis on 5th 
aug, 7:34 GMT)
this worm alway only infects one host _once_. it checks for 
double infection.
it could generate the same ip address again in it's PRNG 
but the chance 
this happening is near 0.

you would think it should be near 0, but unless im mistaken 
this should be CR II correct?

Why should it be near zero?

CRII spends half it's time attacking it's own subnet: < 65535 ips.
After only 256 attacks, any infected host has likely already has hit
one machine twice (birthday paradox).  And a typical attacker has 
hundreds of threads running ...

From my logs:

(the first line means one machine has attacked me 88 times, a second
25 times, a third 19 times, two distinct machines have made 18 attacks,
and another two have made 16, ... the duplication rate is quite high
for those of us in "densely vulnerable" subnets)

number of attacks     number of ips
88                              1 X

25                              1 X

19                              1 X
18                              2 XX
17                      0
16                              2 XX
15                      0
14                              1 X
13                              1 X
12                              6 XXXXXX
11                      0
10                              4 XXXX
9                               3 XXX
8                               2 XX
7                               1 X
6                               4 XXXX
5                               6 XXXXXX
4                               8 XXXXXXXX
3                               9 XXXXXXXXX
2                               7 XXXXXXX
1                               8 XXXXXXXX

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