RE: DoS "Probing" on one of our hosts

From: Harlan Carvey (keydet89at_private)
Date: Mon Jun 30 2003 - 10:14:27 PDT

  • Next message: Stone, Alexander: "RE: DoS "Probing" on one of our hosts"

    > To me, that pattern sounds a lot more like someone's
    > hacked a server and set up a warez site.  
    
    This could very well be, particularly if there is an
    FTP server floating around on the connection.
    
    > See if you can put a sniffer on the outbound
    > connection (Sniffer is my commercial favorite) to
    > find the endpoints. 
    
    Sniffer isn't needed to find the endpoints...only
    netstat on the local box.  
    
    > There are lots of reasons your
    > IDS isn't raising alarms: the system that was hacked
    > was already an FTP server, or if your IDS isn't
    > monitoring common protocols from servers, or the IDS
    > system doesn't see the traffic going to the hacked
    > system, et al.
    
    Well, not so much that the IDS didn't see it, but the
    IDS didn't have a signature for the traffic that it
    did see...
    
    Harlan
    
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