a different, stranger port 137 activity

From: Wisniewski, Michael (wizat_private)
Date: Fri Oct 18 2002 - 07:23:48 PDT

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    	We've been experiencing a lot of strange port 137 traffic from one
    of our IP's behind our firewall to somewhere offsite.  I've been trying to
    track it down but I have been unsuccessful at it.  Anyways, I've noticed
    earlier postings about port 137 traffic and they posted the packets, which
    look similar to mine.  But, when I looked at the machine, the machine didn't
    have any of the files associated with that virus/trojan.  I did a tcpdump
    and the results are posted below.  Both of the machines are behind the
    firewall and port 137 is not open.  Now all this was happening to a web
    server / real audio server for awhile now.  When I plugged my laptop in to
    do the dump, I got the following information.  The weird part about it is
    that it was mostly directed at my laptop as opposed to an IP on their
    network.  The times for all the packets are listed below.  The packets, for
    the most part, look about the same.  Here are the times this occurs...
    
    [The IP is 65.209.25.3 number, my laptop is [my laptop ip], and internal web
    server is the internal real audio/web server]
    
    14:43:30 > ip to my laptop
    14:43:31 > my laptop to ip
    14:43:33 > my laptop to ip
    14:43:34 > my laptop to ip
    14:45:36 > ip to internal web server
    15:00:38 > ip to my laptop
    15:02:44 > ip to internal web server
    
    
    14:43:30.804208 65.209.25.3.137 > [my laptop ip].137: 
    >>> NBT UDP PACKET(137): OPUNKNOWN; REQUEST; BROADCAST
    0x0000	 4500 004c 0e51 0000 7011 56ed 41d1 1903	E..L.Q..p.V.A...
    0x0010	 9289 f805 0089 0089 0038 0a8c 0203 09f9	.........8......
    0x0020	 0000 6039 0000 0d26 8076 1903 c159 9149	..`9...&.v...Y.I
    0x0030	 b0f3 35f0 4141 4141 4100 0021 c159 8de0	..5.AAAAA..!.Y..
    0x0040	 aa28 a1e0 c159 9162 a944 6738          	.(...Y.b.Dg8
    14:43:31.611945 [my laptop ip].137 > 65.209.25.3.137: 
    >>> NBT UDP PACKET(137): QUERY; REQUEST; UNICAST
    0x0000	 4500 004e 0896 0000 8011 4ca6 9289 f805	E..N......L.....
    0x0010	 41d1 1903 0089 0089 003a 5a15 80b6 0000	A........:Z.....
    0x0020	 0001 0000 0000 0000 2043 4b41 4141 4141	.........CKAAAAA
    0x0030	 4141 4141 4141 4141 4141 4141 4141 4141	AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
    0x0040	 4141 4141 4141 4141 4100 0021 0001     	AAAAAAAAA..!..
    14:43:33.110058 [my laptop ip].137 > 65.209.25.3.137: 
    >>> NBT UDP PACKET(137): QUERY; REQUEST; UNICAST
    0x0000	 4500 004e 0897 0000 8011 4ca5 9289 f805	E..N......L.....
    0x0010	 41d1 1903 0089 0089 003a 5a14 80b7 0000	A........:Z.....
    0x0020	 0001 0000 0000 0000 2043 4b41 4141 4141	.........CKAAAAA
    0x0030	 4141 4141 4141 4141 4141 4141 4141 4141	AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
    0x0040	 4141 4141 4141 4141 4100 0021 0001     	AAAAAAAAA..!..
    14:43:34.612213 [my laptop ip].137 > 65.209.25.3.137: 
    >>> NBT UDP PACKET(137): QUERY; REQUEST; UNICAST
    0x0000	 4500 004e 0898 0000 8011 4ca4 9289 f805	E..N......L.....
    0x0010	 41d1 1903 0089 0089 003a 5a13 80b8 0000	A........:Z.....
    0x0020	 0001 0000 0000 0000 2043 4b41 4141 4141	.........CKAAAAA
    0x0030	 4141 4141 4141 4141 4141 4141 4141 4141	AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
    0x0040	 4141 4141 4141 4141 4100 0021 0001     	AAAAAAAAA..!..
    
    
    	Any help would be greatly appreciated!  I just don't quite
    understand how this IP is getting through our firewall since there are no
    conduits open on port 137.  Thanks in advance!
    
    Mike
    
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