Re: Odd identd behavior

Mike Owen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.incidents
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 11/14/05, Christopher E. Cramer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Mike,
>
> This looks like the output from an FTP server.  If I had to guess, I would
> say that this looks like someone compromised a machine and installed a
> warez ftp server on the identd port.
>
> -c
>
> --
> Christopher E. Cramer, Ph.D.
> University Information Technology Security Officer
> Duke University,  Office of Information Technology
> 334 Blackwell St., Suite 2106, Durham, NC 27701
> PH: 919-660-7003  FAX: 919-668-2953  CELL: 919-210-0528
>


You're right, it does look like that. I didn't even think that it
might be a standard service running on a different port.

I don't own these machines, so I don't really want to connect to these
servers to find out if it really is ftp. It does seem likely that they
are warez servers.


Thanks,
Mike
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