Re: SQL Slammer Variant?

[crucible <crucible () collective sh>]

Aaron,

If you're pretty sure that the traffic is originating internally and is 
spoofed, here are a couple of things you could do:

- If you have internal routers, add source address spoofing filters to
  each of their interfaces. You could turn on logging for matches based
  on that rule and at least narrow down which of your networks this is
  coming from. This is a good thing to have in any event. People on your
  internal network shouldn't be sending spoofed packets.

- If you don't have internal routers and you've got just one big
  switched network, then the source MAC address of the spoofed packets
  should hopefully be in the packet captures of your IDS logs. Use this
  information in combination with your switch management tools to figure
  out where the traffic is coming from.

HTH,

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crucible <crucible () collective sh>
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Wilson, Aaron J. wrote:
> I am witnessing SQL Slammer IDS events on an internal sensor that aren't
> coming from one particular source.  In fact, every packet sent has a unique
> and random source IP as well as a unique and random destination IP.  The
> data in the packet matches the one shown at
> http://isc.incidents.org/analysis.html?id=180.  We have UDP 1434 blocked
> around the perimeter and believe this traffic to be originating from a
> system within the internal network.  
>
> The rate of packets at around 2-6 packets per minute isn't as high as the
> original SQL Slammer traffic I have been seeing (at thousands of packets per
> minute).  But this is going to be difficult to track down on a large
> network.  If it spreads, 2-6 packets per minute per infected host with
> thousands of internal systems... 
>
> The first spell was between 03/27/2003 1023 and 1100 PST.  It picked up
> again at 1431 PST on 3/28/2003 and hasn't stopped yet.
>
> Thoughts?  Similar experiences?  Note to coworkers - if this is a practical
> joke on me it's a good one.
>
> -Aaron


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