Re: New script-kiddie looking scan

From: Barry Kostjens (bkostjensat_private)
Date: Tue Jun 18 2002 - 23:42:48 PDT

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    On Tuesday 18 June 2002 20:36, Jeff Kell wrote:
    > I don't think I made myself clear when...
    >
    > > On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Jeff Kell wrote:
    > > > I'm noticing a growing number of scans of four ports (1433, 8000, 3128,
    > > > and 8080, in succession from increasing source ports).  These are
    > > > MS-SQL, WinAmp, Ring Zero, and HTTP proxy.
    
    3128 = squid.
    Older versions of squid where standard 8080, but the newer versions use port 
    3128 as default. I'm seeing a lot of 8080 scans here lately. Lot of people 
    looking for open proxy's ??
    
    
    >
    > The individual scans are nothing new and rather well-known.  What DOES
    > bother me is the pattern -- those four ports are scanned, in succession,
    > within a second or two, and it moves on to another host.  And this same
    > 4-port-scan sequence I have seen from various geographic sources.  What
    > are the odds that all those scans, in that sequence, are coincidence?
    > Slim to none, I'd wager; it sounds like either a new scanning tool or,
    > worse still, some new worm trying to propagate itself through exploits
    > based on those ports.
    >
    > Jeff
    >
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