Re: Logs showing GET /.hash=...

From: Justin Pryzby (justinpryzbyat_private)
Date: Thu May 01 2003 - 16:12:26 PDT

  • Next message: Arnold, Jamie: "RE: Logs showing GET /.hash=..."

    Probably, "match protocol" is a regular expression where . means any
    character and \. is an escape sequence meaning a period.
    
    Justin Pryzby
    On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 01:27:00PM -0500, Jim Dueltgen wrote:
    > 
    > 
    > I've been working recently with Cisco's Network Based Application
    > Recognition (NBAR) trying to keep Kazaa traffic under control in a
    > multi-tenant installation and I've only ever found this snippet in
    > the documentation:
    > 
    > 2. KaZaA version 2 might use port 80 to get around the Firewall. You
    > can control it be adding
    > 
    > match protocol http url \.hash=*
    > 
    > I'm not sure about the \ vs / as it shows in your logs and as one
    > would expect to see in a URL but the above is what's in Cisco's
    > documentation. My understanding is that the actual download of a
    > file via kazaa v2 happens over port 80 in an attempt to get around
    > passive packet filtering firewalls.
    > 
    > Regards,
    > 
    > Jim Dueltgen
    >   LMi.net
    > 
    > At 9:54 AM -0400 4/30/03, Keith Bergen wrote:
    > >I have seen log entries in the form:
    > >dormtw.isu.edu.tw - - [29/Apr/2003:22:04:17 -
    > >0400] 'GET /.hash=8a8a30842bc6698dd1cbcb31191fc9e76018ea4c
    > >HTTP/1.1' 404 323
    > >dormtw.isu.edu.tw - - [29/Apr/2003:22:04:22 -
    > >0400] 'GET /.hash=355bcee01e59b87d9cc33d4ae3cc8edf5f022d2a
    > >HTTP/1.1' 404 323
    > >dormtw.isu.edu.tw - - [29/Apr/2003:22:04:24 -
    > >0400] 'GET /.hash=51f6ec2b496fa6fac83a88d7978321c7b64a5969
    > >HTTP/1.1' 404 323
    > >
    > >I looked at past posts, and one indicates that this might be
    > >KaZaa traffic. The other post indicated it was 'WinMX'. Can
    > >somebody expand on this? For example, what is WinMX? Also,
    > >why would KaZaa connect to port 80?
    > >
    > >Thanks,
    > >Keith.
    > >
    > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    > >Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training Europe, May 12-15 in Amsterdam, the
    > >world's premier event for IT and network security experts. The two-day
    > >Training features 6 hand-on courses on May 12-13 taught by professionals.
    > >The two-day Briefings on May 14-15 features 24 top speakers with no vendor
    > >sales pitches. Deadline for the best rates is April 25. Register today to
    > >ensure your place. http://www.securityfocus.com/BlackHat-incidents
    > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    > 
    > 
    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    > Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training Europe, May 12-15 in Amsterdam, the
    > world's premier event for IT and network security experts. The two-day
    > Training features 6 hand-on courses on May 12-13 taught by professionals. 
    > The two-day Briefings on May 14-15 features 24 top speakers with no vendor
    > sales pitches. Deadline for the best rates is April 25. Register today to
    > ensure your place. http://www.securityfocus.com/BlackHat-incidents
    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    > 
    
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training Europe, May 12-15 in Amsterdam, the 
    world's premier event for IT and network security experts.  The two-day 
    Training features 6 hand-on courses on May 12-13 taught by professionals.  
    The two-day Briefings on May 14-15 features 24 top speakers with no vendor 
    sales pitches.  Deadline for the best rates is April 25.  Register today to 
    ensure your place. http://www.securityfocus.com/BlackHat-incidents 
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Thu May 01 2003 - 20:26:30 PDT