[nsp] Possible Attack????

MPuras at solunet.com MPuras at solunet.com
Thu Dec 26 18:51:40 EST 2002


Hi all.  I was wondering if someone can share some light on a wierd issues
that I am seeing.  This perhaps maybe an attack from an internal or infected
host within the network or simply a malfunctioning NIC.  Basically, I have a
Cisco 3662 with 2 Satellite links.  I noticed that the main WAN link
(1.544mb) was bursting outbound to sometimes 20mb.  I noticed a lot of
output drops and the links started to flap and as a result BGP sessions
starting going down causing huge problems.  Once I was able to get the BGP
under control, I enabled Netflow on the inbound interface (FE0/1) to see
what type of traffic could be causing this issue and this is when I noticed
the below:


Here is the output of the Netflow:

cisco_3600_one#show ip cache flow 
IP packet size distribution (4096357 total packets):
   1-32   64   96  128  160  192  224  256  288  320  352  384  416  448
480
   .753 .167 .017 .005 .001 .002 .001 .001 .001 .001 .000 .000 .000 .000
.000

    512  544  576 1024 1536 2048 2560 3072 3584 4096 4608
   .000 .001 .008 .005 .027 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000

IP Flow Switching Cache, 278544 bytes
  978 active, 3118 inactive, 121929 added
  2503952 ager polls, 0 flow alloc failures
  last clearing of statistics never
Protocol         Total    Flows   Packets Bytes  Packets Active(Sec)
Idle(Sec)
--------         Flows     /Sec     /Flow  /Pkt     /Sec     /Flow     /Flow
TCP-Telnet          41      0.0        50    40      0.0      31.3      14.4
TCP-FTP             87      0.0         7    65      0.0      17.0      12.1
TCP-FTPD            27      0.0       135   211      0.0      83.0       3.5
TCP-WWW          43121      0.3         8   335      2.8       3.6       2.7
TCP-SMTP          1137      0.0         6   173      0.0       9.8       9.7
TCP-BGP              1      0.0       673    68      0.0    1796.8       3.6
TCP-Frag             2      0.0         1    40      0.0       0.0      15.5
TCP-other        33285      0.2        14   246      3.7      24.0      10.3
UDP-DNS           6005      0.0         1    73      0.0       1.3      15.4
UDP-NTP             10      0.0         1    76      0.0       0.0      15.4
UDP-other        13772      0.1         6    78      0.7       1.2      15.5
ICMP              2904      0.0         3    72      0.0      19.1      15.4
IP-other         20559      0.1       148    20     24.5       6.8      15.4
Total:          120951      0.9        33    76     32.2       9.9       9.4

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SrcIf         SrcIPaddress    DstIf         DstIPaddress    Pr SrcP DstP
Pkts
Fa0/1         127.0.0.124     Se1/2.500     108.122.0.0     00 0000 0000
285 
Fa0/1         127.0.0.125     Se1/2.500     108.122.0.0     00 0000 0000
38 
Fa0/1         127.0.0.122     Se1/2.500     108.122.0.0     00 0000 0000
35 
Fa0/1         127.0.0.123     Se1/2.500     108.122.0.0     00 0000 0000
296 
Fa0/1         127.0.0.120     Se1/2.500     108.122.0.0     00 0000 0000
33 
Fa0/1         127.0.0.121     Se1/2.500     108.122.0.0     00 0000 0000
36 
Fa0/1         127.0.0.118     Se1/2.500     108.122.0.0     00 0000 0000
52 
Fa0/1         127.0.0.116     Se1/2.500     108.122.0.0     00 0000 0000
189 
Fa0/1         127.0.0.117     Se1/2.500     108.122.0.0     00 0000 0000
277 
Fa0/1         127.0.0.114     Se1/2.500     108.122.0.0     00 0000 0000
32 
Fa0/1         127.0.0.115     Se1/2.500     108.122.0.0     00 0000 0000
215 
Fa0/1         127.0.0.112     Se1/2.500     108.122.0.0     00 0000 0000
177 
Fa0/1         127.0.0.113     Se1/2.500     108.122.0.0     00 0000 0000
80 
Fa0/1         127.0.0.110     Se1/2.500     108.122.0.0     00 0000 0000
234 
Fa0/1         127.0.0.111     Se1/2.500     108.122.0.0     00 0000 0000
279 
Fa0/1         127.0.0.108     Se1/2.500     108.122.0.0     00 0000 0000
171 
Fa0/1         127.0.0.109     Se1/2.500     108.122.0.0     00 0000 0000
139 
Fa0/1         127.0.0.106     Se1/2.500     108.122.0.0     00 0000 0000
151 
Fa0/1         127.0.0.107     Se1/2.500     108.122.0.0     00 0000 0000
57 
Fa0/1         127.0.0.104     Se1/2.500     108.122.0.0     00 0000 0000
67 
Fa0/1         127.0.0.105     Se1/2.500     108.122.0.0     00 0000 0000
34 
Fa0/1         127.0.0.102     Se1/2.500     108.122.0.0     00 0000 0000
272 
Fa0/1         127.0.0.103     Se1/2.500     108.122.0.0     00 0000 0000
144 
Fa0/1         127.0.0.100     Se1/2.500     108.122.0.0     00 0000 0000
88 
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The list goes on and on showing 127.x.x.x.  If you notice that the incoming
interface is my Fast Ethernet interface but the incoming source address is a
127.x.x.x.  It is going out my WAN link (the same one that has been peaking
to ~20MB) destined to a boggus Network.  The protocol is boggus as well.  


I enabled an access-list to block this 127.x.x.x address inbound from my FE
interface and that has seem to take care of the spikes but the problem is
still present.  Anyone have any ideas what this could be?????




Thanks, 

Mario Puras 
SoluNet Technical Support
Mailto: mpuras@solunet.com
Direct: (321) 309-1410  
888.449.5766 (USA) / 888.SOLUNET (Canada) 



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