RE: Help me identify this IIS DoS attack

["Bojan Zdrnja" <Bojan.Zdrnja () FER hr>]

Hi.

Well, it sounds pretty strange indeed. If you can see that connection is
established that means source machine and your server did their 3-way
handshake. If there is no data exchanged (ie. no request from client) they
just sit on your server until they timeout.
That could be some malfunctioned client at the other side or some very
simple flood attack.

I'd try to setup a sniffer to see exactly what traffic happens with those
client IPs (when you catch them flooding your server).

Best regards,

Bojan Zdrnja

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Boge [mailto:alexb () callitechnic com]
> Sent: 16. listopad 2002 23:28
> To: incidents () securityfocus com
> Subject: Help me identify this IIS DoS attack
>
>
> First time poster (forgive any etiquette errors).
>
> Situation:
> Got a NT4 server sitting on about 30 public IPs, IIS4 is
> running small
> websites on each IP as well as POP3/SMTP mail.
>
> As far as I can tell, it's fully patched up. Shavlik HFNetChk
> tells me I'm
> as current as can be expected. We've never been hit by
> anything so much
> more than a few dozen CodeRed attempts.
>
> Switched providers recently and suddenly we've been
> experiencing what I'll
> call DoS attacks against the IIS4 server. The W2K/IIS5
> machines on the
> same address block are not affected. I cannot determine what
> this attack
> is or how to deflect it - other than to manually route to
> Null0 the source
> IPs.
>
> Observatation:
> I know things are amiss when I start getting calls saying
> website X is not
> responding - usually those that have an .ASP page as their
> default page.
>
> Checking TCPView I can see 100s to 1000s of port 80 "ESTABLISHED"
> connections all coming from the same source IP. The connects
> are usually
> about 10-50 to each IP, port 80, on the machine that hosts a
> web service.
>
> Checking IIS logs I see NOTHING at all showing up. CPU utilization is
> nothing. Memory usage is nothing. The machine is responsive
> and all other
> services on the machine work just fine. Bandwidth utilization
> is nothing.
> Just 1000s of port 80 "ESTABLISHED" connections.
>
> Block the IP and eventually they fall off (or I can close them via
> TCPView). A few hours later I can unblock the IP and the
> attacks are gone.
> I've had about 15 of these in the last 10 days. All coming
> from wildly
> random outside sources. I've tried to see what's on the other
> end of the
> source IPs and the ones that give me something appear to be
> IIS boxes.
>
> Request:
> Can someone offer me some directions to look to determine
> what this is and
> what I can do to defeat it? It's amazing to me that for 3
> years I've been
> with one provider and NEVER had anything like this and in the 10 days
> since I've switched I'm suddenly flooded. The attacks are not
> coming from
> within the new providers network - they come from anywhere, US to
> Australia to Europe.
>
> Thanks in advance - I hope I posted in the right way to the
> right place.
>
> ab
>
>
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