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Re: odd scans?


From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz () csh rit edu>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 15:13:02 -0400

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 10:16:20AM -0700, Scott, Michael R. wrote:

Anyone recognize this or have a clue what they're looking for (covert
channel, root shell) or what tool is responsible?  The source and dest ports
are almost as randomly distributed across the high range as the location of
the source IPs are across the globe, but notice that the same two ack
numbers repeat across all the source IPs.

Someone trying to brute-force reset a TCP connection by guessing?

-- 
 - mdz

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