[Emerging-Sigs] ET DROP Known Bot C&C Server Traffic --> 216.8.177.23

Arthur Boos Jr boos at cpd.ufrgs.br
Fri Jul 11 17:22:47 EDT 2008


Hi Andre,

    I used procexp, autoruns and tcpview (very nice tools from
ex-sysinternals) and fport, but I couldn't find anything suspicious. :/

    Thanks.

Arthur
UFRGS - BR
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Andre Ludwig escreveu:
> You can use process explorer (from ms) to look at the ports used by each 
> binary, see if something stands out on that machine.
> 
> Andre
> 
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Arthur Boos Jr <boos at cpd.ufrgs.br 
> <mailto:boos at cpd.ufrgs.br>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello,
> 
>        Thanks for the answers!  Yes, I run a few more AV online,
>     but nothing was detected. With tons of domains resolving to
>     that IP, it's possible trigger the rule just loading a malitious
>     page. I've found one, when I was googling. Usually, a infected
>     computer try to conect to a C&C server at a regular basis,
>     am I right ? But the mostly of my systems triggered that sid just
>     once (or twice, in one ocasion), so there isn't much traffic
>     to see. Perhaps monitoring the DNS queries I can find something
>     interesting... Any other ideas ?
> 
>     PS: Nice that whitelist solution!
> 
>        Regards,
> 
>     Arthur
>     UFRGS - BR
>     Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
> 
>     Philipp Bescht escreveu:
>      > Apart from freenode ips, there are also other big irc networks
>      > included, for example:
>      >
>      > tux at notebook ~ $ for i in `dig +short irc.undernet.org
>     <http://irc.undernet.org>`; do if
>      > [ "$(grep $i emerging-botcc.rules)" ]; then if [ ! "$(grep $i
>      > emerging-botcc.excluded)" ]; then echo "$i"; fi; fi; done
>      > 64.18.128.86 <http://64.18.128.86>
>      > 66.186.59.50 <http://66.186.59.50>
>      > 69.16.172.40 <http://69.16.172.40>
>      > 161.53.178.240 <http://161.53.178.240>
>      > 193.109.122.67 <http://193.109.122.67>
>      > 195.47.220.2 <http://195.47.220.2>
>      > 208.83.20.130 <http://208.83.20.130>
>      > 217.168.95.245 <http://217.168.95.245>
>      > 38.114.116.5 <http://38.114.116.5>
>      >
>      > Same for dal.net <http://dal.net>, quakenet and others.
>      > Sorry, just found out about the .excluded file. Wonder why i havent
>      > seen it before :D
>      >
>      > Regards,
>      > Philipp
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:45:24 -0400
>      > Matt Jonkman <jonkman at jonkmans.com <mailto:jonkman at jonkmans.com>>
>     wrote:
>      >
>      >> Added those, thanks Philipp.
>      >>
>      >> Matt
>      >>
>      >> Philipp Bescht wrote:
>      >>> Hi Matt,
>      >>>
>      >>> Regarding the False Positives on freenode servers:
>      >>>
>      >>> philipp at desktop ~/et-rules $ for i in `dig +short
>      >>> irc.freenode.org <http://irc.freenode.org>`; do l=$(grep $i
>     emerging-botcc.rules); if
>      >>> [[ $l ]]; then echo `echo $l | cut -d ';' -f 5` $i; fi; done | sort
>      >>> sid:2404000 130.239.18.172 <http://130.239.18.172>
>      >>> sid:2404000 140.211.166.3 <http://140.211.166.3>
>      >>> sid:2404000 154.35.200.44 <http://154.35.200.44>
>      >>> sid:2404002 204.11.244.21 <http://204.11.244.21>
>      >>> sid:2404003 207.158.1.150 <http://207.158.1.150>
>      >>> sid:2404004 209.177.146.34 <http://209.177.146.34>
>      >>> sid:2404006 216.155.130.130 <http://216.155.130.130>
>      >>> sid:2404008 64.161.254.20 <http://64.161.254.20>
>      >>> sid:2404020 89.16.176.16 <http://89.16.176.16>
>      >>>
>      >>>
>      >>> Regards,
>      >>> Philipp
>      >>>
>      >>>
>      >>>
>      >>> On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:46:51 -0400
>      >>> Matt Jonkman <jonkman at jonkmans.com
>     <mailto:jonkman at jonkmans.com>> wrote:
>      >>>
>      >>>> Ya, we do auto update that from shadowserver. I was trying to
>      >>>> whitelist the freenode servers. If anyone happens to notice one in
>      >>>> there I haven't whitelisted please let me know.
>      >>>>
>      >>>> But ya, this is definitely a bad IP.
>      >>>>
>      >>>> Matt
>      >>>>
>      >>>> Philipp Bescht wrote:
>      >>>>> Hello Arthur,
>      >>>>>
>      >>>>> I am getting false positives on this sid too, mostly because of
>      >>>>> irc traffic to irc.freenode.org <http://irc.freenode.org>. I
>     think this list is being
>      >>>>> automatically compiled from the shadowserver archives, so if
>     there
>      >>>>> is a botnet c&c channel on freenode for example, the whole IP is
>      >>>>> being considered 'dangerous'.
>      >>>>>
>      >>>>> But when looking at the list of domains resolving to the IP you
>      >>>>> mentioned, there definetly is something suspicious about that:
>      >>>>> http://www.robtex.com/ip/216.8.177.23.html
>      >>>>>
>      >>>>> I would take a closer look at the system(s) on your network
>      >>>>> causing this traffic :)
>      >>>>>
>      >>>>> Regards,
>      >>>>> Philipp
>      >>>>>
>      >>>>>
>      >>>>>
>      >>>>> On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:27:26 -0300
>      >>>>> Arthur Boos Jr <boos at cpd.ufrgs.br <mailto:boos at cpd.ufrgs.br>>
>     wrote:
>      >>>>>
>      >>>>>> Hello,
>      >>>>>>
>      >>>>>>    Since some weeks ago, we started getting many hits on rule
>      >>>>>> "ET DROP Known Bot C&C Server Traffic (group 7)" (SID 2404006),
>      >>>>>> with traffic going to 216.8.177.23 <http://216.8.177.23>
>     (ports 25, 80 and 443).
>      >>>>>> The related packet is:
>      >>>>>>
>      >>>>>> 07/01/08-20:56:55.976724 XXX.XXX.XX.XX:2561 ->
>     216.8.177.23:80 <http://216.8.177.23:80>
>      >>>>>> TCP TTL:127 TOS:0x0 ID:35416 IpLen:20 DgmLen:48 DF
>      >>>>>> ******S* Seq: 0x74043F2B  Ack: 0x0  Win: 0xFFFF  TcpLen: 28
>      >>>>>> TCP Options (4) => MSS: 1460 NOP NOP SackOK
>      >>>>>>
>      >>>>>>    I run some antivirus online on a few machines, but I could
>      >>>>>> not detect any bot infection. Has anyone got false positives
>      >>>>>> on events hiting that rule ?
>      >>>>>>
>      >>>>>>    Thanks,
>      >>>>>>
>      >>>>>> Arthur
>      >>>>>> UFRGS - BR
>      >>>>>> Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
>      >>>>>>
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