[nsp-sec] Report of successful WINS (ms09-039) compromise

Michael Sinatra michael at rancid.berkeley.edu
Mon Aug 17 14:03:35 EDT 2009


On 08/17/09 10:45, Mark Boolootian wrote:
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>> We just got a report of two WINS servers at a .edu being compromised via
>> the MS09-039[1] vulnerability over the weekend.
>>
>> The only information I have at this moment is the attacking IP was:
>>
>> 221.214.82.183
> 
> I've got a system that began spewing high rate traffic to 224.0.1.24:42
> last night.  Running netflow shows TCP activity directed to port 42
> of the system just prior to the spew.  The source of the TCP activity 
> in our case was 221.214.82.185.  

We believe we had a machine that was compromised in a similar way a few
days ago.  I'll look for the suspect IP address in netflow.

michael



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