RE: Weird Windows logon attempts

From: Terence Runge (Terence.Runge@veritas.com)
Date: 02/24/03

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    From: Terence Runge <Terence.Runge@veritas.com>
To: 'Harry Hoffman' <hhoffman@ip-solutions.net>, incidents@securityfocus.org
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 23:00:50 -0800

    I have seen this pattern on repeat occasions and is indicative of virus
    activity, most recently seen as W32.ELKERN. Take a look at the virus
    protection on the Windows systems, make sure it updated and running. Run a
    full scan while there, it is a good starting point.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Harry Hoffman [mailto:hhoffman@ip-solutions.net]
    Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 4:28 PM
    To: incidents@securityfocus.org
    Subject: Weird Windows logon attempts

    Hi All,

    We have just setup ntsyslog from sourceforge.net. Our security policy is to
    log
    events on failure and we have just started seeing the below events. After
    talking with the users we are pretty sure that they are not attempting to
    access
    the services. And they don't have accounts on that system.

    Has anyone seen this? They are 2k/XP boxes. Does Windows 2k/XP automagically
    try
    to find out what services are accessible?
    Any insight would be great.

    The username has been changed to USERNAME to protect, the hopefully,
    innocent.

    Thanks,
    Harry

    Feb 22 13:27:49 exchange.auckland.ac.nz/exchange.auckland.ac.nz
    security[failure] 681 NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM The logon to account: USERNAME
    by:
    MICROSOFT_AUTHENTICATION_PACKAGE_V1_0 from workstation: G731-220-4 failed.
    The
    error code was: 3221225572
    Feb 22 13:27:49 exchange.auckland.ac.nz/exchange.auckland.ac.nz
    security[failure] 681 NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM The logon to account: USERNAME
    by:
    MICROSOFT_AUTHENTICATION_PACKAGE_V1_0 from workstation: G731-220-4 failed.
    The
    error code was: 3221225572 

    -- 
Harry Hoffman
ITSS Systems Team Leader
University of Auckland
hhoffman@auckland.ac.nz
hhoffman@ip-solutions.net
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