RE: Code Red : Any whitehouse.gov people around?

[Laurence Berland <stuyman () confusion net>]

If you read through eEye's disasm dump, you can find that it's hardcoded
to the ip of www1.whitehouse.gov, which I don't remember but ends in .91

On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Dave Stewart wrote:

> At 10:04 AM 7/20/2001, Mike Najarian wrote:
>
> > Has anyone gutted an infected box to determine whether it's going to go for
> >         whitehouse.gov
> >         www.whitehouse.gov
> > or a hardcoded IP?
>
> While there's incomplete information available in the standard places, it 
> appears to be a hardcoded IP.
>
> I, along with many others, have null routed it.... Symantec's site claims 
> the IP address is no longer active at any rate.
>
> It *appears* that from xx-20-xxxx through xx-28-xxxx, this thing will 
> attack that IP address... meaning that measures already in place will 
> minimize damage from the portion of the code that attempts to flood 
> 198.137.240.91.  Networks where 198.137.240.91 isn't blocked could see 
> network congestion, I suppose, if they host a large number of infected 
> machines.
>
> I've seen a claim that if the date is greater than 28, the threads just go 
> into an infinite sleep.
>
>  From what I can see, I would expect another round of probes to take place 
> starting on 01-August-2001...

Laurence Berland
http://www.isp.northwestern.edu