RE: spoofed packets to RFC 1918 addresses

From: Kent Hundley (kent.hundleyat_private)
Date: Thu Jun 27 2002 - 10:53:53 PDT

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    Dirk,
    
    I'm not aware of such a tool, but there has been at least one bug in IIS
    that allowed someone to obtain the actual address used by a server, so there
    may be other ways to obtain this information not generally known.
    
    However, if the packets have a destination address in the RFC1918 space, I
    think you can conclude that they are in fact originating from the segment on
    the outside of your firewall.  Unless something is seriously fubar'd on your
    router _and_ your upstream ISP's router, there's no way short of source
    routing to have packets with destination addresses in those ranges get to
    your network from the Internet.
    
    I would suspect either a misconfiguration of something on the outside of
    your firewall or a compromise of something on the outside of your firewall.
    Probably time to do some investigating of whatever devices you have on the
    outside.  I'd also start looking at the source MAC of the packets and see
    what ports on your switch are seeing that source MAC.
    
    HTH,
    Kent
    
    
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Dirk Koopman [mailto:djkat_private]
    Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 8:49 AM
    To: Incidents Mailing List
    Subject: spoofed packets to RFC 1918 addresses
    
    
    There seems to be a "tool" about, which is somehow able to
    detect valid rfc1918 addresses behind a NATed firewall and is spoofing
    from addresses using random (usually non-existant) addresses from the
    class C on the internet side of that firewall.
    
    It isn't doing them any good as the packets are being dumped before they
    get to the 'visible' class C (as I am making sure that packets from that
    class C emanate only from the interface attached to that class C).
    
    However, I am interested to know:
    
    a) how the attackers are able to "guess" correct (ie existing) rfc1918
    addresses as, AFAIK, these are not being leaked thru the firewall.
    
    b) how these packets are getting to me in the first place as they don't
    seem to be source routed.
    
    c) which "tool" is doing this anyway.
    
    Regards
    
    Dirk Koopman
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