Re: Trojan ?

  • From: "Jim Harrison" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 21:13:13 -0700

Hi Wayne,

Bear in mind that any traffic in the FW log came from someone behind the ISA.
Since you're concerned about SMTP-like traffic, the WEB logs will be of little 
use, except possibly to assist in narrowing down the culprit as most trojan'ed 
boxes are rarely "single-purposed".
Most traffic originating at the ISA itself is not logged as it uses packet 
filters, which do not log "allow" traffic by default.

 Jim Harrison
 MCP(NT4, W2K), A+, Network+, PCG
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Wayne Small 
  To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] 
  Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 2:15 PM
  Subject: [isalist] Re: Trojan ?


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  Jim,

  As a test we have disabled the SMTP service on the server - therefore the 
only thing making calls outbound to port 25 is the trojan itself.  We're 
getting someone onsite this morning to look at the issue better as it only came 
to us at 4:30pm yesterday afternoon.  In the ISA WEB & FW logs, there appears 
to be no suspicious activity - except for a number of connections being sent 
out to port 25.

  Really strange.

  Regards, 
  Wayne Small   MCSE+I,  MCSE 2000 
  Technical Director 
  Correct Solutions Pty Ltd 
    
  Check out www.correct.com.au for more information on Correct Solutions 

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Jim Harrison [mailto:jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
    Sent: Tuesday, 17 September 2002 2:15 AM
    To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
    Subject: [isalist] Re: Trojan ?


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    Take a look at the ISA WEB and FW logs to determine where these requests 
may be originating from.
    Since you have SBS2K, you probably also have Exch2K installed and running, 
which might explain the dest-TCP-25 connections.

     Jim Harrison
     MCP(NT4, W2K), A+, Network+, PCG
     http://isaserver.org/pages/author_index.asp?aut=3
     http://isatools.org
     Read the books!

      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Wayne Small 
      To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] 
      Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 5:05 AM
      Subject: [isalist] Trojan ?


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      Today I have inherited a new site that appears to have a trojan running 
in it.  They have large amounts of internet traffic - basically the volume in 
and out varies by only a few megabytes (as part of 900MB in 24hrs).  We have 
checked the server and found via netstat, a large number of connections from 
the servers local port 1080 to a range of dynamic ports on a subnet of remote 
machines.  In addition we have found a large number of connections from the 
servers dynamic ports to a number of remote mail systems on port 25 (i.e. 
hotmail etc).  The server is an SBS server and has the standard filters to 
prevent inbound access to all ports other than 25.  Specifically there is no 
filter that allows access to port 1080 from the internet.  I suspect some 
trojan (either on the server or an internal workstation) is making a connection 
using port 1080 outbound and using this to relay mail most likely spam back out 
to the internet.  The server has current AV software and as such I would think 
is virus free.  Task Manager does not show any unusual services running.

      I have stopped the SOCKs4 Application filter and the connections to the 
internet on port 1080 and 25 also stops.  I have also noted a brief conneciton 
to port 80 of a specific IP address on the internet - I assume the trojan is 
"phoning home".

      Anyone else seen activity like this that can provide more information?

      Regards, 
      Wayne Small   MCSE+I,  MCSE 2000 
      Technical Director 
      Correct Solutions Pty Ltd 
        
      Check out www.correct.com.au for more information on Correct Solutions 

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