FW: CodeRed Observations.

From: larosa, vjay (larosa_vjayat_private)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 16:48:08 PST

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    > Hello,
    > 
    > I have been watching this recent spike in CodeRed activity and one thing I
    > am noticing
    > is the lack of TCP session establishment. I am seeing common get strings
    > like this showing
    > up at my firewalls without ever establishing a TCP three way handshake. I
    > have seen several
    > hundred packets with in the last two days similar to this at my firewalls.
    > 
    > 47 45 54 20 2F 64 65 66 61 75 6C 74 2E 69 64 61  GET /default.ida
    > 3F 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58  ?XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    > 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58  XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    > 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58  XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    > 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58  XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    > Snip----------------------------------------------------------------------
    > ------------------------------------------------------
    > 
    > I find it awfully strange that there is no handshake (not even a single
    > SYN to try and establish
    > a session) but these packets show up anyway. I also am not seeing an
    > increase of port 80
    > scans in my firewall logs or with any of my IDS sensors. Is anybody else
    > out there seeing the 
    > same things we are?
    > 
    > Thanks!
    > 
    > vjl
    > 
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    > 
    > 
    
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