RE: Possible Intrusion Attempt?

From: Brad Webb (BWebbat_private)
Date: Mon May 26 2003 - 19:05:01 PDT

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    We're seeing the same phenomenon here using ISA with NTLM authentication for
    clients. Certain spams pop up authentication windows, with our domain and a
    username that does not exists.
    
    Unfortunately I don't have an example stored, but I remember that checking
    the HTML source reveals a few IMG SRC's and a *lot* of unrecognised HTML
    <>tags, mostly gibberish.
    
    I can understand how the IMG SRC would pop an auth window if the resource
    was protected on the remote server, but as to why it uses the format of
    (OurDomain\unknownUsername), I have no idea. I'm sure it cannot be an auth
    request from our own ISA server, as all other Net access works fine on said
    client using IE's NTLM token.
    
    
    Regards,
     
    Brad Webb
    IT Administrator
    AJB Publishing
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    -----Original Message-----
    From: FWAdmin [mailto:FWAdminat_private] 
    Sent: Tuesday, 27 May 2003 12:03 AM
    To: 'Matt LaFelero'; incidentsat_private
    Subject: RE: Possible Intrusion Attempt?
    
    
    A few of our users have received the same thing. We also use MS Proxy 2.0,
    but they get popups for authentication with some weird user name in the user
    ID box. The text of the message is as follows:
    
    <B>Subject:</B> are you tired of 
    being single? ut qw pydxve j<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Loading please wait... <A 
    href="http://www.beowolfhost.com/1/index.html?a=MTEyfDI="><IMG 
    src="http://beowolfhost.com/4/amateur_match_400x300_01.jpg" NOSEND="1"><A>rr
    vs 
    sv h qacvntnzzf adcyf nxsci qvi hane o lopp qcnazyh bk gzsdh ic uxjuz u qwx
    h t 
    </A><BR>
    
    The e-mail didn't trigger authentication with me, and all it downloaded was
    an image. Depending on a user's proxy settings, this message may or may not
    prompt for authentication.
    
    Did you get a look at what the login screen was for? Ours was a login prompt
    for our proxy cluster, not the remote web site.
    
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