[34768] in bugtraq
Re: Will the Sasser worm become the next Blaster?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Damian Menscher)
Mon May 3 12:50:28 2004
Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 17:54:03 -0500 (CDT)
From: Damian Menscher <menscher@uiuc.edu>
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Gadi Evron <ge linuxbox org> wrote:
> if you simply port scan for Sasser you get many false positives, as
> that port (5554) is also used by Oracle. If you get "200 OK" as a
> reply though in the first packet, it's Sasser.
Another false positive is IRIX boxes which listen to port 5554/tcp for
esp-httpd (their "Embedded Support Partner"). From the default
/etc/inetd.conf:
sgi-esphttp stream tcp wait root /usr/etc/esphttpd esphttpd -u300
To cut down on false positives, I tried scanning for BOTH 5554/tcp AND
9996/tcp. Unfortunately we found that very few (about 2%) of the
infected machines had both ports open. Another 1% had only port
9996/tcp open. The remaining 97% had only 5554 open.
Damian Menscher
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