Re: Concept Virus(CV) V.5 - Advisory and Quick analysis

From: Michael H. Warfield (mhwat_private)
Date: Tue Sep 18 2001 - 18:10:58 PDT

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    On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:43:40PM -0400, Jose Nazario wrote:
    > On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Olle Segerdahl wrote:
    
    > > Quick analysis indicates that it propagates itself in a number of
    > > different ways:
    
    > any info on how it determines the networks to spread to/ scan? the email
    > and IIS vulnerability scans are what i'm talking about. is it assuming
    > class B addresses?
    
    > i ask because our netmasks around here are in the neighborhood of /22,
    > though our severs are seeing scans from the whole /16.
    
    	Seems to be weighted probablistic on octet boundries.  Probes to
    a /16 are more probable than probes to /8 which are more probably than
    to probes to /0.  Some reports indicate higher probability to /24 but
    I can't personally confirm that (since I control all /24 range space
    that any of my servers reside in).  Just because it's more likely
    to probe within the /16 space it resides in, it doesn't mean that it
    won't probe outside of it.  Quite the contrary, actually.
    
    > i haven't been tracking the email propogation.
    
    > thanks.
    
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    	Mike
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