drone armies C&C report - June/2005

Mon Jul 4 11:17:09 UTC 2005

Below is a periodic public report from the drone armies / botnets
research and mitigation mailing list.
For this report it should be noted that we base our analysis on the data
we have accumulated from various sources.

According to our incomplete analysis of information we have thus far, we
now publish our regular reports, with some additional statistics.

We changed our report this month to reflect past data, and try to 
ascertain from our own experience response rates to botnet reports.

This month we would once again like to commend Staminus and Internap, 
who continually surprise us with their immediate response to our 
reports. The numbers speak for themselves.

A couple of other notable ISP's we rarely mention (because they were 
never a problem) are AOL and Comcast. Comcast has been with us since the 
start and has shown nothing but seriousness. AOL are continuously ahead 
of the curve, which is something I personally am close to adoring.

The most impressive turn-about change in behavior though came from 
ThePlanet, who investigate and eliminate any botnet C&C they encounter 
in record time up to the point where they no longer appear in our 
monthly reports - where they used to have a revered seat at the top.

The report summary includes a Percent Resolved Column in order to 
recognize the mitigation efforts of the AS Responsible Parties. The 
Opens Unresolved column represents the number of unique C&C which 
reported as open to the survey's connection attempts and which have 
neither been investigated nor cleared by the Responsible Party (to the 
extent of our knowledge). The Mapping count may include multiple names 
mapping to a single IP within an AS. We count each mapping count as a 
unique C&C.

AS responsible Parties ranked by top Opens Unresolved

Responsible Party               Mapping    Opens        Percent 

                                 Count      Unresolved   Resolved
SERVER4YOU - Server4You Inc.    49         37           24
UNITEDCOLO-AS Autonomous Syste  44         36           18
SAGONET-TPA - Sago Networks     80         32           60
MFNX MFN - Metromedia Fiber Ne  61         28           54
NOC - Network Operations Cente  39         27           31
AS13680 Hostway Corporation Ta  22         22            0
FDCSERVERS - FDCservers.net LL  42         19           55
NEBRIX-CA - Nebrix Communicati  33         16           52
ASN-NA-MSG-01 - Managed Soluti  31         14           55
LAMBDANET-AS European Backbone  15         14            7
INFOLINK-MIA-US - Infolink Inf  28         13           54
LYCOS-EUROPE Lycos Europe GmbH  17         13           24

Historical Report ranked by past suspect C&Cs mapping into the AS:

Responsible Party               Mapping    Opens        Percent 

                                 Count      Unresolved   Resolved
SAGONET-TPA - Sago Networks     80         32           60
MFNX MFN - Metromedia Fiber Ne  61         28           54
STAMINUS-COMM - Staminus Commu  56          0           100
INTERNAP-BLOCK-4 - Internap Ne  54          0           100
INTERNAP-BLK - Internap Networ  52          0           100
SERVER4YOU - Server4You Inc.    49         37           24
UNITEDCOLO-AS Autonomous Syste  44         36           18
FDCSERVERS - FDCservers.net LL  42         19           55
NOC - Network Operations Cente  39         27           31
KIXS-AS-KR Korea Telecom        33          8           76
NEBRIX-CA - Nebrix Communicati  33         16           52
ASN-NA-MSG-01 - Managed Soluti  31         14           55

* We would gladly like to establish a trusted relationship with
   these and any organizations to help them in the future.

* By previous requests here is an explanation of what "ASN" is, by Joe
   St Sauver:
   http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joe/one-pager-asn.pdf

The Trojan horses most used in botnets:

1. Korgobot.
2. SpyBot.
3. Optix Pro.
4. rBot.
5. Other SpyBot variants and strains (AgoBot, PhatBot, actual SDbots,
    etc.).

This report is unchanged.

Credit for gathering the data and compiling the statistics from our 
group efforts should go to the Statistics Project lead:
Prof. Randal Vaughn <Randy_Vaughn at baylor.edu>

-- 
Gadi Evron,
Israeli Government CERT Manager,
Tehila, Ministry of Finance.

gadi at CERT.gov.il
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