How the Chicom got my IP address???

How the Chicom got my IP address???

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How the Chicom got my IP address??? Lito Lipad 06-05-2008
Posted by Lito Lipad on June 5, 2008, 7:08 pm
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Everytime I look at my NAS ftp flog, I see all this Chicom IP's. How
in hell they get into my IP address? I got 400 recorded attempts to
login as Administrator.

Jun 5 10:26:33 vsftpd: [Administrator] FAIL LOGIN: Client
`222.169.224.114`
Jun 5 10:26:34 vsftpd: [Administrator] FAIL LOGIN: Client
`222.169.224.114`
Jun 5 10:26:34 vsftpd: [Administrator] FAIL LOGIN: Client
`222.169.224.114`
...
Jun 5 10:27:01 vsftpd: [Administrator] FAIL LOGIN: Client
`222.169.224.114`

It look like they're running a program because humanoid can't do 400
login attempts in 30 seconds.

I wonder if some embedded Trojan Dragon embedded in my Linksys router
or in my NAS box.

Posted by Doug McIntyre on June 5, 2008, 7:37 pm
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>Everytime I look at my NAS ftp flog, I see all this Chicom IP's. How
>in hell they get into my IP address? I got 400 recorded attempts to
>login as Administrator.

The scripts go through and try to log into *every IP address* as
Administrator and common stupid passwords. Its not you they are after,
they are just looking for open places they can go in in general.

If they didn't get the ocassional hit that let them in, they wouldn't bother..

But people are lazy/stupid/whatever and put stupid easy passwords up
on common services listening wide open on the Net.


Posted by Lito Lipad on June 6, 2008, 4:05 am
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> >Everytime I look at my NAS ftp flog, I see all this Chicom IP's. =A0How
> >in hell they get into my IP address? =A0I got 400 recorded attempts to
> >login as Administrator.
>
> The scripts go through and try to log into *every IP address* as
> Administrator and common stupid passwords. Its not you they are after,
> they are just looking for open places they can go in in general.
>
> If they didn't get the ocassional hit that let them in, they wouldn't both=
er..
>
> But people are lazy/stupid/whatever and put stupid easy passwords up
> on common services listening wide open on the Net.

My NAS running Linux OS as firmware o 'Administrator' is not even a
valid username. It is set up in my router as virtual FTP server
instead of DMZ.

Posted by bz on June 6, 2008, 4:55 am
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893a4c6c0563@a70g2000hsh.googlegroups.com:

>> >Everytime I look at my NAS ftp flog, I see all this Chicom IP's.  How
>> >in hell they get into my IP address?  I got 400 recorded attempts to
>> >login as Administrator.
>>
>> The scripts go through and try to log into *every IP address* as
>> Administrator and common stupid passwords. Its not you they are after,
>> they are just looking for open places they can go in in general.
>>
>> If they didn't get the ocassional hit that let them in, they wouldn't both
> er..
>>
>> But people are lazy/stupid/whatever and put stupid easy passwords up
>> on common services listening wide open on the Net.
>
> My NAS running Linux OS as firmware o 'Administrator' is not even a
> valid username. It is set up in my router as virtual FTP server
> instead of DMZ.
>

There are scripts running, trying to break into machines all the time.
On one of my mail servers [a linux machine], I run a script in the hosts.deny
file
that sends me an e-mail every time someone unauthorized tries to SSH into my
machine.

If they try more than twice, I look up their ISP and forward a copy of the
message to them.

About 10% of the time I get back a 'thankyou, we checked the machine and it
was infected with ...'


----------------
#
# hosts.deny This file describes the names of the hosts which are
# *not* allowed to use the local INET services, as decided
# by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server.
#
# The portmap line is redundant, but it is left to remind you that
# the new secure portmap uses hosts.deny and hosts.allow. In particular
# you should know that NFS uses portmap!

ALL: ALL: spawn ( \
echo -e "Unauthorized access attempt(s) made upon our machine(s)\n\
by %c. \n\
Probable compromised machine, scanning for vulnerable machines to subvert.\n\
\n\
Suspect machines should be removed from the network and checked.\n\
Most have been virus/worm/trojan infected or hacked/rooted/zombied.\n\
\n\
You may get lucky and catch a hacker.\n\
\n\
sig line1\n\
sig line2\n\
\n\
\n\
TCP Wrappers\: Connection Refused\n\
By\: $(uname -n)\n\
Process\: %d (pid %p)\n\
User\: %u\n\
Host\: %c\n\
Date\: $(date)\n\
Add 5 hours to CDT, 6 hours to CST to get GMT \n\
\n\
Trace Route to OFFENDING Machine \n\
" > host.deny.temp.txt ; /usr/sbin/traceroute %c >> host.deny.temp.txt ; \
/bin/echo -e "\n from log file "                  >> host.deny.temp.txt ; \
/bin/grep %h /var/log/secure                          >> host.deny.temp.txt ; \
/bin/echo -e "\n from log file "                  >> host.deny.temp.txt ; \
/bin/grep %h /var/log/messages                          >> host.deny.temp.txt ; \
/bin/echo -e "\n from log file "                  >> host.deny.temp.txt ; \
/usr/bin/tail -5 /var/log/messages                  >> host.deny.temp.txt ; \
/usr/bin/tail -5 /var/log/secure                  >> host.deny.temp.txt ; \
/bin/netstat -aven                                 >> host.deny.temp.txt ; \
/bin/mail -s "Hack attempt(s) by %u@%h upon $(uname -n)" root \
< host.deny.temp.txt ; rm host.deny.temp.txt )&
------------------------------






--
bz         

please pardon my infinite ignorance, the set-of-things-I-do-not-know is an
infinite set.

bz+csm@ch100-5.chem.lsu.edu remove ch100-5 to avoid spam trap

Posted by Moe Trin on June 6, 2008, 4:06 pm
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On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.security.misc, in article
Lipad wrote:

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>>>Everytime I look at my NAS ftp flog, I see all this Chicom IP's. <A0>How
>>>in hell they get into my IP address? <A0>I got 400 recorded attempts to
>>>login as Administrator.

If you don't want people from country $FOO attempting to connect to your
system, WHY ARE YOU ALLOWING CONNECTIONS FROM THAT BLOCK OF ADDRESSES?
Do you someday plan on visiting Jilin province (the Chinese "state"
just North of Korea), and will need to connect to your system from
there? Until you do, block 222.168.0.0/15. A better solution is to
block ALL except the addresses/ranges you _need_ access from. (My
firewall allows connections through from a /22 and two /24s "outside"
because I can't see any reason to allow connections from you or anyone
else that I haven't approved in advance, and I really don't expect
authorized users to be connecting from Korea, Kenya, Kuwait or
Kazakhstan or a lot of other places either.)

>> The scripts go through and try to log into *every IP address* as
>> Administrator and common stupid passwords. Its not you they are after,
>> they are just looking for open places they can go in in general.

And they also try 'root' in addition to 'Administrator', so it's not
just a windoze thing.

>> If they didn't get the occasional hit that let them in, they wouldn't
>> bother..
>>
>> But people are lazy/stupid/whatever and put stupid easy passwords up
>> on common services listening wide open on the Net.

You may recall that the 'Deloder' worm had great success in March 2003
trying just 86 "passwords" such as

"" 1234567 a ihavenopass pwd
0 12345678 aaa login qwer
000000 123456789 abc love root
007 123abc abcd mypass123 server
1 123asd admin mypc sex

(that first one is an empty string - no password at all).

>My NAS running Linux OS as firmware o 'Administrator' is not even a
>valid username. It is set up in my router as virtual FTP server
>instead of DMZ.

So give them time and continued access, and they'll eventually start
trying other usernames like 'root' or 'toor' or a lot more. And the
reason you think everyone in the world should have access to your
system is what exactly?

Old guy

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