RE: New CodeRed strain? -- UPDATE

From: larosa, vjay (larosa_vjayat_private)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 19:38:03 PDT

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    AHA! I reported this about a month ago and everyone thought I was crazy! I
    have all sorts of packet captures of this kind of activity. There are
    cmd.exe attempts, root.exe attempts, and the classic default.ida?X and
    default.ida?N attempts, but no TCP three way handshake. It is very strange.
    Theses attempts are destined to IP addresses that are not even up and
    running, never mind they are all fire walled off from the outside. We should
    compare notes. If you want to you can contact me off the list.
    
    vjl
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Frank Knobbe [mailto:fknobbeat_private] 
    Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 1:13 PM
    To: incidentsat_private
    Subject: Re: New CodeRed strain? -- UPDATE
    
    As I see it did make it to the list, here an update.
    
    The reason this packet hasn't been tripping the usual signatures is
    simple. We are receiving *only* the second packet. There is no first
    packet with GET /default.ida?XXXX etc.
    
    The packet itself appears to be classic CodeRed (II I believe), but
    again, we're getting only the second packet. No TCP 3-way, for first
    packet.
    
    While keeping our eyes on this, the majority appears to be coming from
    China, but we do some domestic (USA), Turkey, and I believe a Brazilian.
    
    I'm curious if anyone else is seeing these second-packet-only CodeReds.
    
    Regards,
    Frank
    
    
    
    On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 13:55, Frank Knobbe wrote:
    > Greetings,
    > 
    > we've been picking up some oddities since yesterday which look like a
    > new CodeRed variant. Traditional signatures didn't identify it as such,
    > but looking at the payload, it appears to be a CodeRed'ish type of bug.
    > We're starting a trap for a complete session now. (So far have only
    > isolated packets).
    > 
    > That isolated packet is below. I'll post the complete session once we
    > catch the whole thing. 
    > 
    > Has anyone else seen this?
    > 
    > Regards,
    > Frank
    > 
    > ---8<---
    > 
    > 04/25-17:44:56.268467 UTC 200.204.148.110:4699 -> x.x.x.x:80
    > TCP TTL:105 TOS:0x0 ID:49613 IpLen:20 DgmLen:1500 DF
    > ***A**** Seq: 0xD7D856CE  Ack: 0xF3E3078  Win: 0x4470  TcpLen: 20
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    > 45 C0 E8 0B 00 00 00 57 53 32 5F 33 32 2E 44 4C  E......WS2_32.DL
    > 4C 00 FF 55 F4 89 45 BC E8 07 00 00 00 73 6F 63  L..U..E......soc
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