Re: ssh login attempts...new scan tool? ->MyDoom

Timothy Chase <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.intrusions
Message-ID <[email protected]>
SANS - MyDoom Details, ssh password brute forcing.
Handlers Diary July 28th 2004
Updated July 29th 2004 04:22 UTC (Handler: Johannes Ullrich)
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10907420~mode=flat

P.S.   What's with today's spike of TCP on 539?

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 16:45:54 -0700 (PDT), phuck face
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Sup folks,
> 
> i've been watching my firewall logs a lot lately (home
> cable link) and have had a *large* increase of hosts
> attempting to login via ssh as users:
> 
> guest
> admin
> test
> root   <-----yeah, that's what got my attention.
> 
> It appears to be automated as the same illegal users
> keep showing up then, 3 login attempts on "root". Ssh
> connections are coming in from various remote ports,
> but none below the 1024 mark.
> 
> A gentle poking back generally shows linux hosts of
> the 2.4.x or 2.5.x variety and *__ALL__* of them using
> *old* versions of OpenSSH.
> 
> They are mostly from kornet.net (which i see on the
> blocklist) and vsnl.net.in (india) and france although
> i did get one from kanren.net (Kansas edu net), but i
> called their NOC already.
> 
> Um, the interesting part is an IRC server running on
> the normal 6667 port giving this response to a telnet
> on that port:
> 
> :4W13e7l8c9o12m6e[email protected] NOTICE *
> :psyBNC2.3BETA
> 
> So, i googled psyBNC2.3BETA and found
> http://www.psychoid.lam3rz.de/ at the top of the list.
> i'm reading into it more. The "lam3rz" part is kind of
> a give away about what i'll find.
> 
> Has anyone else noticed this new, automated poking
> about on ssh with these login attempts?
> 
> What's the story here and are these boxes getting
> popped due to the old OpenSSH versions they are running?
> 
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