Re: Increasing ICMP Echo Requests

From: Logan Rogers-Follis - TNTNetworx.net (loganat_private)
Date: Tue Aug 19 2003 - 12:34:29 PDT

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    My company had this virus (an unprotected computer - now secured - let 
    it in), and within 10 min. it had sent 6MB worth of ICMP out of our 
    network and it was totally messing up our 1.5MB SDSL line and ruining 
    our VPN.  I used the Norton tool and fix them all, but I do know this 
    thing is horrible (I just iwsh every company had a AV on there mail 
    server - that would help stop some of this).
    
    Logan
    
    Bruce Martins wrote:
    
    >As I think this has already been posted here that it would seem that
    >this may be part of the new so called "good" worm if that in fact really
    >is one, which seems to patch the machine once infected and removes any
    >traces of the previous worm as well as itself on January 1, 2004, this
    >does create a lot of traffic as it does search for other vulnerable
    >machines, is this a good or bad thing ? Did the writer of this do it to
    >help remove the infection and spread of the previous worm or some other
    >hidden agenda ? 
    >
    >Mcafee link
    >http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=nachi
    >
    >Symantec Link
    >http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.welchia.worm
    >.html
    > 
    >
    >
    >Bruce Martins
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    >
    >-----Original Message-----
    >From: Kevin Patz [mailto:jambo_catat_private] 
    >Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 4:46 PM
    >To: incidentsat_private
    >
    >In-Reply-To: <3F411CBC.2020203at_private>
    >
    >Upon reading of this, I enabled logging of ping 
    >
    >requests on my firewall.  So far I've only seen three 
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    >with len=92:
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    >
    >24.64.90.16 (Shaw Communcations)
    >
    >24.60.234.130 (Comcast, formerly attbi)
    >
    >24.61.246.103 (Comcast, formerly attbi)
    >
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    >
    >My IP is on Comcast, formerly attbi, on a 24.62 IP 
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    >range.  I also have some pings with len=60 but they 
    >
    >look more like "normal" ICMP echo requests.
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    >>Ken,
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    >>We're seeing the same ICMP pattern.
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    >>Is this from the blaster? We are looking into
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    >filtering ICMP echo 
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    >>request on our external routers.
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    >>Here is a snip from our IDS,
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    >>[**] [1:483:2] ICMP PING CyberKit 2.2 Windows [**]
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    >>[Classification: Misc activity] [Priority: 3]
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    >>[Xref => http://www.whitehats.com/info/IDS154]
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    >>Event ID: 179333     Event Reference: 0
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    >>08/18/03-18:27:28.386411 65.83.120.72 -> xx.xx.xx.xx
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    >>ICMP TTL:118 TOS:0x0 ID:21399 IpLen:20 DgmLen:92
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    >>Type:8  Code:0  ID:2   Seq:61261  ECHO
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    >>Thanks
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    >>Daniel Williams
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