[nsp-sec] FW: Storm worm changing DNS resolver settings onvictim system

Florian Weimer fweimer at bfk.de
Thu Mar 13 10:56:55 EDT 2008


* Barry Greene:

>> So blocking DNS requests to non-ISP servers doesn't make that 
>> much sense, but I'm relatively sure it will become standard 
>> industry practice on consumer accounts. 8-/
>
> If you redirect port 53 to your DNS infrastructure - the Miscreants
> counter with changing the ports - you then have a signature to look for
> in Netflow - watching for all DNS patterns which do not match port 53
> exiting your network. 

To my knowledge, the name servers used by Zlob are fairly stable and
on an obscure netblock.  Detection shouldn't be the issue here.

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