Re: Port Zero

Harlan Carvey <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.incidents
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> I had in incident yesterday (18 June 2005), where a
> client's Windows box listed almost every possible
> port as open, listening in the same way described
> above. Similiar netstat -an output as above. From my
> experience this isn't normal.
> 
> A few hours later the machine rapidly starting
> sending packets to random addresses on port 443.
> 
> What could this possibly be? Is it a
> virus/backdoor/something malicious?

Well, there is a way to find out.  One tool to use is
Foundstone's fport.exe, but I prefer DiamondCS's
openports.exe.  These tools are used for
process-to-port mapping; ie, determining which
processes on the system are using which port.

If the client's system is/was Windows XP, take a look
at the output of "netstat /?", paying particular
attention to the '-o' and '-b' options.

Harlan


------------------------------------------
Harlan Carvey, CISSP
"Windows Forensics and Incident Recovery"
http://www.windows-ir.com
http://windowsir.blogspot.com
------------------------------------------
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.