Code Red and other anomalous activity from 1433

[Curley Mr Eric P <CurleyEP () NOC USMC MIL>]

Has anybody else been getting slammed by Code Red activity today?  It seems
to be coming from mostly Asian blocks  but there are some other blocks
thrown in there as well.  Then again it could all be spoofed and could be
coming from the 12 year old down the street..Thrown into all this traffic
I'm also seeing a lot of Dest ports with 1433; Possibly that SQL stuff that
happened last month..anywho, just wanted to know if anybody else was
experiencing this.

Cheers,
Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: H C [mailto:keydet89 () yahoo com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 1:40 PM
To: Pavel Kankovsky; incidents () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: TCP port 139 probes



> Having done a superficial examination
> of system directories on those machines (they had a
> publicly accesible
> share, ergo I was invited, wasn't I? <g>) 

Uh...no, you weren't.  Just b/c a share is publicly
accessible, does NOT, in fact, mean that you were
invited.  This is simply the age-old rhetoric used to
justify malicious actions.  While many admins have
said that they would be very happy to be told by an
outsider that they had a vulnerable machine, to date
not a single one has said that they'd be happy to have
that person access the machine via some vulnerability
and take files.

> I downloaded 3 of them and they all seem to be
> compressed executables

As with your previous posts, this one is incredibly
vague and lacking in any useful information. 
Compresses with what?  PKZip?  UPX?  What version? 
Did you uncompress the files?

> having a common prefix, 

If you're referring to the first couple of bytes of
the file, "MZ" is the common prefix for executables on
Windows systems.

> and there are some fragments
> of strings ("rom",
> "y smt", ") with", "ESM", "Mime-", "-Typ", "quit"
> etc) in that common
> prefix suggesting there is some SMTP implementation
> there--presumably
> some kind of malware able to spread via email.

Did you run strings on the compressed or uncompressed
file?  
 
> But I did not find anything similar on other
> machines I examined.

Interesting how you've posted to a public list,
basically stating that while you refuse to do any
testing on your end to verify that the activity you're
seeing is a worm (in your own words to me via email,
you're "too lazy"), you're more than willing to access
vulnerable systems and take files...


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