Re: Unusual volume: UDP:137 probes

From: James Sneeringer (james+incidentsat_private)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 13:26:49 PDT

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    On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 06:45:22PM +0200, Axel Pettinger wrote:
    | Yesterday morning I sent a file (name: SCRSVR.EXE) into various anti 
    | virus labs and asked them to confirm my suspicion that it was a new
    | open share worm. Since this morning my suspicion is confirmed. I think
    | that it is related with the reports of "unusually high volumes of 
    | UDP:137 probes". It's the same malicious program Mark Forsyth has 
    | already mentioned.
    
    It looks as though it can be distinguished from legitimate NetBIOS
    traffic.  Normal udp/137 will have 137 as the source and destination
    (for file shares, anyway).  This worm uses an arbitrary 1024+ source port.
    
    -James
    
    
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