Re: [Pinguzilla] Weird Traffic

[Leon Ward <seclists () rm-rf co uk>]

What was the result of ntop? protocol breakdowns, top IP SRC/DST etc.
Does syslog point you to anything suspicious?
chkrootkit ?
What do you use to audit your Apache logs? Does that show up anything  
interesting (hosting a large file for download maybe).

Without physical access, it's hard to trust the output of tools you  
install.

-Leon


On 28 May 2008, at 10:20, Jonathan Adams wrote:

> John,
>
>  I am running late for my real job :) but when i come back Ill run
> some more test and post the results.
>
> BTW, 1.5 GB transferred yesterday. there is no way this is valid web
> or ftp traffic...  something is proxying through my box...
>
> Im sure of it
>
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:06 PM, John Duksta <john () duksta org> wrote:
> > Jonathan,
> >
> > I'd be curious to get a copy of the list of networks that you're  
> > seeing this
> > traffic from. I work for a large managed security service provider  
> > and I
> > could cross reference these networks against data that we're seeing  
> > from our
> > corporate customers.
> >
> > Regards,
> > -john
> >
> >
> > On May 27, 2008, at 7:59 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote:
> >
> > > All,
> > >
> > > I have a leased server I use to host some websites and for the past
> > > week I have been getting traffic warnings. The server has been
> > > transferring > 1GB of data per day, which is unusually high,
> > > especially since I moved my mail to Google Apps. I have noticed a
> > > ridiculous amount of attempted proxying attemptes in my logs, but  
> > > I do
> > > not have mod proxy turned on. I suspect my server is on some  
> > > list.  I
> > > firewalled off a large number of subnets from China and my traffic
> > > dropped for a few days, then this morning, 2735MB transferred in 24
> > > hrs.
> > >
> > > As of right now, I am planning to blackhole all China traffic, since
> > > thats where most of this is comming from, along with the occasional
> > > traffic from France and other places in Eur. Is this common?  If so
> > > are there any other remedies?
> > >
> > > --
> > >
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> > > indomitable will." -
> > > Mohandas Gandhi
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> "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an
> indomitable will." -
> Mohandas Gandhi