Re: Strange Traffic to ports 139 and 137 from a machine with no data

Well I have received a few people all exhibiting this, and say it can
occur from a fresh-install, currently patched, no internet connection.
 I suggest we investigate more, honeypot, full diff, etc. Anyone
interested in helping?

On 3/2/06, LE Backup <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry for the oversimplification, but are you saying this is normal?
>
> Is there anyone from Microsoft that would care to comment on this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> James Friesen, CIO
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephen J. Smoogen [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 12:35 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Strange Traffic to ports 139 and 137 from a
> > machine with no data
> >
> > On 1 Mar 2006 16:33:04 -0000, [email protected]
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Also,
> > >  I ran Procexp (Sysinternals) and tcpview (sysinternals)and
> > th eprocess was 'system process'
> > >
> >
> > Ok I have seen something like this before. In our case we got
> > the following from a box that was a fresh install and patched
> > version of 2003. The systems showed that it was a system
> > process that pops this out. It will open a connection to 137,
> > 139 randomlly between B class addresses (128.1.0.1 ->
> > 191.255.255.255) with the most between 132.0.0.0->138.0.0.0.
> > Setting up a honeypot that would answer to anything on the
> > wire basically got a very standard 137, 139 discovery packet.
> > Once a box on the wire answered, the box would calm down and
> > only peep every now and then. No unknown data was sent from
> > the box other than these packets. Box seemed to need a B
> > class address for this to occur.
> >
> > Microsoft didnt know what could cause this. Reloading the box
> > with the same patch sets would make it go away. I didnt have
> > much to see about this other than the above. [I do not know
> > what registry entries etc were turned on/off.. ]
> >
> >
> > --
> > Stephen J Smoogen.
> > CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
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