isprime DOS in progress
Phil Rosenthal
pr at isprime.com
Fri Jan 23 18:11:32 UTC 2009
Just a friendly notice, the attack against 66.230.128.15/66.230.160.1
seems to have stopped for now.
-Phil
On Jan 22, 2009, at 6:01 AM, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Graeme Fowler <graeme at graemef.net> writes:
>
>> I've been seeing a lot of noise from the latter two addresses after
>> switching on query logging (and finishing an application of Team
>> Cymru's
>> excellent template) so I decided to DROP traffic from the addresses
>> (with source port != 53) at the hosts in question.
>>
>> Well, blow me down if they didn't completely stop talking to me. Four
>> dropped packets each, and they've gone away.
>>
>> Something smells "not quite right" here - if the traffic is
>> spoofed, and
>> my "Refused" responses have been flying right back to the *real* IP
>> addresses, how are the spoofing hosts to know that I'm dropping the
>> traffic?
>
> Did you filter *only* 66.230.128.15/66.230.160.1, or are you dropping
> traffic from other sources too? Looks like some of the other source
> addresses are controlled by the DOSers. Possibly used to detect
> filters?
>
> These clients may look similar to the DOS attack, but there are subtle
> differences:
>
> Jan 18 05:08:33 canardo named[32046]: client 211.72.249.201#29656:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 18 05:08:33 canardo named[32046]: client 211.72.249.201#29656:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 18 05:08:34 canardo named[32046]: client 211.72.249.201#29656:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 18 05:47:00 canardo named[32046]: client 211.72.249.201#29662:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 18 05:47:01 canardo named[32046]: client 211.72.249.201#29662:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 18 05:47:01 canardo named[32046]: client 211.72.249.201#29662:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 18 06:25:22 canardo named[32046]: client 211.72.249.201#29664:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 18 06:25:22 canardo named[32046]: client 211.72.249.201#29664:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 18 06:25:23 canardo named[32046]: client 211.72.249.201#29664:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 18 07:03:41 canardo named[32046]: client 211.72.249.201#29667:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 18 07:03:41 canardo named[32046]: client 211.72.249.201#29667:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 18 07:03:42 canardo named[32046]: client 211.72.249.201#29667:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 18 07:42:08 canardo named[32046]: client 211.72.249.201#29670:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 18 07:42:09 canardo named[32046]: client 211.72.249.201#29670:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 18 07:42:09 canardo named[32046]: client 211.72.249.201#29670:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 18 08:20:29 canardo named[32046]: client 211.72.249.201#29673:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 18 08:20:29 canardo named[32046]: client 211.72.249.201#29673:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 18 08:20:30 canardo named[32046]: client 211.72.249.201#29673:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 18 08:58:50 canardo named[32046]: client 211.72.249.201#29678:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 18 08:58:51 canardo named[32046]: client 211.72.249.201#29678:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 18 08:58:51 canardo named[32046]: client 211.72.249.201#29678:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 18 09:37:12 canardo named[32046]: client 211.72.249.201#29679:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 18 09:37:12 canardo named[32046]: client 211.72.249.201#29679:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 18 09:37:13 canardo named[32046]: client 211.72.249.201#29679:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
>
> Jan 20 07:02:51 canardo named[32046]: client 213.61.92.192#46716:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 20 07:02:51 canardo named[32046]: client 213.61.92.192#46716:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 20 07:02:51 canardo named[32046]: client 213.61.92.192#46716:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 20 07:41:21 canardo named[32046]: client 213.61.92.192#46752:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 20 07:41:21 canardo named[32046]: client 213.61.92.192#46752:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 20 07:41:21 canardo named[32046]: client 213.61.92.192#46752:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 20 08:19:46 canardo named[32046]: client 213.61.92.192#46785:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 20 08:19:46 canardo named[32046]: client 213.61.92.192#46785:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 20 08:19:46 canardo named[32046]: client 213.61.92.192#46785:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 20 08:58:12 canardo named[32046]: client 213.61.92.192#46808:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 20 08:58:12 canardo named[32046]: client 213.61.92.192#46808:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 20 08:58:12 canardo named[32046]: client 213.61.92.192#46808:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 20 09:36:34 canardo named[32046]: client 213.61.92.192#46833:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 20 09:36:34 canardo named[32046]: client 213.61.92.192#46833:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 20 09:36:34 canardo named[32046]: client 213.61.92.192#46833:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 20 10:14:58 canardo named[32046]: client 213.61.92.192#46858:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 20 10:14:58 canardo named[32046]: client 213.61.92.192#46858:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 20 10:14:58 canardo named[32046]: client 213.61.92.192#46858:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
>
> Jan 22 06:27:28 canardo named[32046]: client 66.238.93.161#34373:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 22 06:27:28 canardo named[32046]: client 66.238.93.161#34373:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 22 06:27:28 canardo named[32046]: client 66.238.93.161#34373:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 22 07:05:55 canardo named[32046]: client 66.238.93.161#34420:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 22 07:05:55 canardo named[32046]: client 66.238.93.161#34420:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 22 07:05:55 canardo named[32046]: client 66.238.93.161#34420:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 22 07:44:20 canardo named[32046]: client 66.238.93.161#34473:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 22 07:44:20 canardo named[32046]: client 66.238.93.161#34473:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 22 07:44:21 canardo named[32046]: client 66.238.93.161#34473:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 22 08:22:38 canardo named[32046]: client 66.238.93.161#34503:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 22 08:22:38 canardo named[32046]: client 66.238.93.161#34503:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 22 08:22:38 canardo named[32046]: client 66.238.93.161#34503:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 22 09:00:56 canardo named[32046]: client 66.238.93.161#34540:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 22 09:00:56 canardo named[32046]: client 66.238.93.161#34540:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 22 09:00:56 canardo named[32046]: client 66.238.93.161#34540:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 22 09:39:20 canardo named[32046]: client 66.238.93.161#34574:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 22 09:39:21 canardo named[32046]: client 66.238.93.161#34574:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 22 09:39:21 canardo named[32046]: client 66.238.93.161#34574:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
>
>
> Notice the pattern:
> 3 probes every 38 minutes
> Each probe from the same source port
> Source port increases slowly and steadily
>
> This looks like some application actually waiting for a response. The
> slow source port change is probably an indication that this client
> only
> tests a small number of DNS servers. I guess that this client is
> either
> one of the many bots used to send the spoofed requests, or maybe a bot
> not allowed to spoof its source and therefore used for other
> purposes. In any case, I assume that other DNS servers may see such
> control sessions coming from other addresses.
>
> These 3 clients started probing my DNS server almost simultaneously
> on January 8th:
>
>
> Jan 8 19:33:52 canardo named[26496]: client 213.61.92.192#31195:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 8 19:33:52 canardo named[26496]: client 213.61.92.192#31195:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 8 19:33:52 canardo named[26496]: client 213.61.92.192#31195:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 8 19:36:29 canardo named[26496]: client 66.238.93.161#11299:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 8 19:36:29 canardo named[26496]: client 66.238.93.161#11299:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 8 19:36:30 canardo named[26496]: client 66.238.93.161#11299:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 8 19:37:47 canardo named[26496]: client 211.72.249.201#29112:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 8 19:37:47 canardo named[26496]: client 211.72.249.201#29112:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
> Jan 8 19:37:47 canardo named[26496]: client 211.72.249.201#29112:
> view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied
>
> Maybe preparing for the attack on ISPrime? I didn't start receiving
> spoofed requests from 66.230.128.15/66.230.160.1 before January 20th
>
>
> I just tried filtering the probing addresses. This made the probing
> stop immediately after dropping a set of 3 probes. But the spoofed
> requests continuted at the same rate as before, so this does not
> support
> my theory.
>
> However, I believe it would be too much of a coincidence if there
> isn't
> some connection between the probing and the DOS attack. It would be
> interesting to hear if others see similar probing.
>
>
>
> Bjørn
>
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