Re: Question on IIS servers and reverse lookup

From: Miroslaw Slawek Chorazy (mchorazy_at_depaul.edu)
Date: 03/10/05

  • Next message: Maxime Ducharme: "Re: Question on IIS servers and reverse lookup" 
    Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:58:37 -0600
To: <mducharme@cybergeneration.com>, <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>

    Do you have Security Audit turned on and see Failure Events of the Logon/Logoff type timestamped at the same time when IIS tries to send the NetBIOS Name Resolution (UDP:137) packet?

    Maybe these are authentication attempts against your IIS Server coming from the Internet and the IIS Server is sending a packet to destination asking for Domain Name?

    slawek
     

    >>> "Maxime Ducharme" <mducharme@cybergeneration.com> 3/9/2005 16:41 >>>

    Hi to the list

    We are running a new iptables firewall with
    restrictives policies.

    I just noticed that sometimes (between 1 an 4 packets per
    weeks), our IIS 5.0 server try to send NetBIOS name
    query on foreign IPs.

    Here is a hex dump of that packet :

    11:44:56.495348 x.x.x.x.netbios-ns > 211.40.x.y.netbios-ns: NBT UDP
    PACKET(137): QUERY; REQUEST; UNICAST
    0x0000 4500 004e b2bf 0000 8011 ff8f XXXX XXXX E..N.........hR.
    0x0010 d328 913c 0089 0089 003a 6ff0 c7ee 0000 .(.<.....:o.....
    0x0020 0001 0000 0000 0000 2043 4b41 4141 4141 .........CKAAAAA
    0x0030 4141 4141 4141 4141 4141 4141 4141 4141 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
    0x0040 4141 4141 4141 4141 4100 0021 0001 AAAAAAAAA..!..

    x.x.x.x is our server (i replaced hex dump with XXXX XXXX too)

    Source : our server
    Proto : UDP
    Source port : 137
    Dest : foreign server
    Dest port : 137

    I'd like to identify the source of these packets.

    One thing that comes in mind is :
    Would it be related to the option in IIS "reverse
    lookup host" to log hostnames in the log file ?

    I remember that nslookup() function of NT kernel
    uses netbios if DNS doesnt reply anything
    (correct me if i'm wrong).

    There is not other inbound port than 80 opened.
    Opened outbound ports are packets related to a already
    opened connection on port 80 and DNS queries to our
    servers. The server itself cannot open a connection
    on Internet.

    Since this server is hosting ASP & ASP.NET services,
    I agree it would be possible to get access via
    some crafted URLs or webapp attacks, but we didnt
    see anything else than these packets.

    Someone may enlighten me ?

    Thanks in advance

    Maxime Ducharme
    Programmeur / Spécialiste en sécurité réseau

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