RE: Odd windows ICMP... any ideas what this is?

From: Eugene Borukhovich (eugene.bat_private)
Date: Mon Jun 09 2003 - 19:59:24 PDT

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    Take a look at this. Haven't tested this myself though:
    
    http://www.wfu.edu/~stein/work/icmp.html	
    
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: ted klugman [mailto:tedklugmanat_private]
    > Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 12:05 PM
    > To: incidentsat_private
    > Subject: Odd windows ICMP... any ideas what this is?
    > 
    > Our IDS has been reporting some large ICMP packets on
    > our internal network. Our internal network is a
    > Windows2000 domain -- servers and clients.
    > 
    > - Packet size is always 2090 bytes
    > - Almost always sent from a client or member server to
    > one of the two boxes running Active Directory
    > - The ping payload itself is actually a JPEG of the
    > Microsoft logo. This JPEG can actually be found inside
    > userenv.dll.
    > 
    > I googled for any details, and I see that others have
    > run into this before. However, there were no answers,
    > just questions. See these two links for identical
    > packets:
    > 
    > http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/linux/debian/2002-q4/0658.html
    > 
    >
    http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/debian/security/2002/11/msg00222.ht
    ml
    > 
    > 
    > Anyone else seen these? Any idea what's causing them?
    > Is this 'normal' behavior on a W2K network?
    > 
    > Other than the fact that they are relatively large
    > ICMP packets, they don't appear to be malicious in any
    > way. There is no other malicious traffic seen on our
    > network.
    > 
    > TIA.
    > 
    > -TedK
    > 
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