Re: CIAC TECH BULLETIN: 04-001 Remote Detection of the Mydoom.A Worm

From: Tedd Riggs (T_Riggs_at_MSN)
Date: 02/02/04


Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 06:25:54 -0800

I think they are both valid, the one direct from the site is the
"mass-mailing" version I believe as its Marked:
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.6.2

and Davids is I beleive the direct mailing version.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
 Version: PGP for Business Security 5.5.2

However, its been years since I did much with PGP, so I could be way off
also...
Tedd

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"Bill Sanderson" <Bill_Sanderson@msn.com.plugh.org> wrote in message
news:ue9KU2S6DHA.2560@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Help me out.
>
> Just when I thought I understood how to verify PGP-signed messages, I get
> this result with this one:
>
> *** PGP Signature Status: bad
> *** Signer: CIAC <ciac@llnl.gov>
> *** Signed: 1/30/2004 7:33:10 PM
> *** Verified: 2/1/2004 8:19:37 PM
> *** BEGIN PGP VERIFIED MESSAGE ***
>
> (What am I doing wrong?)
>
> I've obtained the key from:
> http://www.ciac.org/ciac/index.html (upper right corner)
> and it shows as both valid and trusted in my keyring.
>
> I've been able to verify the last CERT advisory, so I thought I was
> beginning to know what I was doing, but.....
>
> (and this isn't really addressed to David Lipman--but to all those here
who
> can help us out in understanding how to properly verify such a post)
>
> "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
> news:eHb7K%23R6DHA.2908@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > From:  CIAC Mail User [SMTP:ciac@ciac.org]
> > To:  tech-bulletin-list@rum.llnl.gov
> > Cc:
> >
> > Subject:  CIAC TECH BULLETIN: 04-001 Remote Detection of the Mydoom.A
Worm
> > Sent:  1/30/2004 7:33 PM
> > Importance:  Normal
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- 
> >
> >            __________________________________________________________
> >
> >                       The U.S. Department of Energy
> >                   Computer Incident Advisory Capability
> >                           ___  __ __    _     ___
> >                          /       |     /_\   /
> >                          \___  __|__  /   \  \___
> >             __________________________________________________________
> >
> >                              TECHNICAL BULLETIN
> >
> >                     Remote Detection of the MyDoom.A Worm
> >
> > January 31, 2004 00:00 GMT                   Number CIACTech04-001
> > _____________________________________________________________
> > PROBLEM:       Before systems containing the MyDoom.A worm can be
cleaned,
> >               they must be detected. As running a scanner on each system
> >               can be difficult and time consuming, a method of remote
> > scanning
> >               for infected machines is needed.
> > PLATFORM:      Doomkill.vbs runs on a Windows platform. Nmap can run on
> > many
> >               platforms.
> > ABSTRACT:      The Mydoom worm is probably the fastest growing worm so
> > far.
> >               The only way to stop it is to detect the infected systems
> > and
> >               clean them up. Unfortunately, running a scanner on each
> > system
> >               is difficult and time consuming so a method of remote
> >              detection is preferable. In this paper, two members of the
> > FIRST
> >               community (www.first.org) have made available remote
> > scanners
> >               for detecting Mydoom.A. The first is a configuration file
> > for
> >               the nmap scanner (www.insecure.org) which uses its
> >               application detection capability to detect Mydoom.A
running
> > on port 3127.
> >               The second is a vbscript program that uses WMI to detect
the
> >               linkages between Mydoom and .dll files on the system.
> > ________________________________________________________
> > LINKS:
> > CIAC BULLETIN:  http://www.ciac.org/ciac/techbull/CIACTech04-001.shtml
> > OTHER LINKS:     Doomkill.zip:
> >                     http://www.ciac.org/ciac/techbull/doomkill.zip
> > _________________________________________________________
> >
> > _________________________________________________________
> >                The Computer Incident Advisory Capability
> >                           ___  __ __    _     ___
> >                          /       |     / \   /
> >                          \___  __|__  /___\  \___
> > __________________________________________________________
> > The U.S. Department of Energy's Computer Incident Response Team
> > Lawrence Livermore National Lab P.O. Box 808, L-303 Livermore, CA 94551
> > CIAC Phone: 925-422-8193, Fax: 925-423-8002   E-mail: ciac@llnl.gov
> > __________________________________________________________
> >
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- 
> > Version: PGP for Business Security 5.5.2
> >
> > iQCVAwUBQBr3xrnzJzdsy3QZAQF74AP/YT393n78DL+Fe7rvY6B3qALrmAznstr1
> > xIDTeCdnKmgMHZ/OZZSbadBo4QjFQRv92uDilHbcApYxeSVNgYDsMR/CIFiy+gt9
> > 2IDb3jxAnbQOfnwI7WNVsI3ofEQnqS65ssXc9kg2X/qhib1o2b1j8cvdCrn/dFsm
> > tfGPPUa4+oE=
> > =oPlR
> > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- 
> >
> > CIAC LIST: 12
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>


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