Re: DOS rules for Nimda

[Chris Green <cmg () sourcefire com>]

"Richard Ellerbrock" <richarde () eskom co za> writes:

> I am trying to help a very large site that is being killed by denial of
> service due to a large number of MS type workstations infected by Nimda.
> The standard snort rules are no good as no connection is actually made,
> just a HUGE SYN flood looking for open Web servers to infect. Traffic
> looks like this:

The easiest way to detect this is by saying

alert tcp $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET 80 (msg: "OUTGOING cmd.exe";
content: "cmd.exe");

because eventually one of these will do the probing.
-- 
Chris Green <cmg () sourcefire com>
Warning: time of day goes back, taking countermeasures.



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