Re: [despammed] Bogus DNS traffic

From: whiplash (whiplash_at_despammed.com)
Date: 10/24/03

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    Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 00:49:01 +0200
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    David Gillett wrote:
    > I'm seeing random UDP packets to port 53 of random
    > internal IP addresses. The source IP addresses are
    > external, all over the map, although the one example
    > I've gotten a good capture of bore the source MAC
    > address of an internal server. (Whatever is spoofing
    > the IP address *could* be spoofing the MAC address, but
    > that would still indicate an origin inside our network....)

    As reported elsewhere (see
    http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/intrusions/2003/10/msg00168.html )
    the origin of this malformed dns traffic could be a sort of trojan/worm
    named kx.exe.
    I just grabbed a copy of it following the procedure described in the
    link reported above.

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