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Security Incidents: Re: Source of Recent Distributed Pings

Re: Source of Recent Distributed Pings

From: Joe Stewart <jstewart_at_LURHQ.COM>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:42:10 -0500

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On Wednesday 20 December 2000 10:59, you wrote:
> I know this is a little bit old now, but I have had this rule in my
> ruleset (custom based on the 09262k ruleset) for a week or so and it does
> not differentiate properly. I assume there must be some other product out
> there doing the same type of thing... perhaps somebody with some more
> snort knowledge would like to come up with a rule for this one? ;)
>
> Name: magic.cybercon.com
> Address: 64.37.65.194
>
> =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
> [**] PING *NIX Type [**]
> 12/20-10:53:28.400588 64.37.65.194 -> 63.87.101.XX
> ICMP TTL:55 TOS:0x0 ID:40914
> ID:15885 Seq:56770 ECHO
> 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 ................
> 18 19 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 ........ !"#$%&'
> 28 29 2A 2B 2C 2D 2E 2F 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 ()*+,-./01234567
> 38 39 3A 3B 3C 3D 3E 3F 89:;<=>?
>
> =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+

It looks like Speedera may have tweaked their software to send out a smaller
payload in the pings. In any case, just lose the "depth: 100;" part of the
old sig and it should work fine:

alert ICMP any any -> any any (msg:"PING Speedera"; content: "|3839 3a3b 3c3d
3e3f|"; itype: 8; )

- -Joe

- --
Joe Stewart
Information Security Analyst
LURHQ Corporation
jstewart_at_lurhq.com
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Received on Dec 20 2000

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