Re: Voluminous SSHd scanning; possible worm activity ?

From: Dragos Ruiu (drat_private)
Date: Sat Dec 15 2001 - 17:03:44 PST

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    I am not aware of what exactly the AV software uses as its bleh signature,
    but I have personally seen recovered copies of the x2 exploit infected with 
    linux virii in the wild.  Do not discount this as an option, imho.
    
    --dr
    CanSecWest/core02 - May 1-3 2002 - Vancouver B.C. - http://cansecwest.com
    
    On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:37:44 -0800 (PST)
    Dave Dittrich <dittrichat_private> wrote:
    
    > On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Steve Wright wrote:
    > 
    > > mcaffee reports the x2 file as containing the bleh unix worm ??
    > 
    > McAfee (and Kaspersky Labs) are wrong.  It is an ssh exploit, not a
    > worm.  If anyone from either company wants to contact me about how
    > what signature is used, I'd love to help straighten this out.
    > 
    > --
    > Dave Dittrich                           Computing & Communications
    > dittrichat_private             University Computing Services
    > http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich    University of Washington
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