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Re: Strange pings from 127.0.0.1


From: "Timothy Schwimer" <tschwimer () hotmail com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 02:26:07 +0000

Not yet. Doesn't sound like you're having the same issue though. Mine is all ICMP traffic, all sourced from the loopback, but destined to several different host IP's. In addition, the source and dest MAC are always the same regardless of the IP's. I'm fairly certain that I've got a compromised host, but with the source IP being a loopback, I've got no way of deducing which host.


From: Murad Talukdar <talukdar_m () subway com>
To: Tim Schwimer <tschwimer () hotmail com>, security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Strange pings from 127.0.0.1
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 09:43:07 +1000

I've been getting this on my router logs saying that the tcp got dropped.
 Source:127.0.0.1, 80, WAN - Destination:210.80.144.150, 1912, LAN -
'Suspicious TCP Data'

Did you work out what it was with the pings? Not sure if it's similar or
not.

Murad Talukdar


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Subject: Re: Strange pings from 127.0.0.1


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> I started seeing the same thing on my DMZ segments this Friday afternoon
at about 4:00pm (figures, huh??). Anyway, I was wondering what you found out
about this. Any insight would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
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> >The networked applications I am responsbile for have been performing
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> >When I tried to run Ethereal on my computer, I found some odd ICMP echo
> >request (ping) packets with a source IP of 127.0.01, to addresses both
> >within our 192.168.1.* network as well as to random Internet addresses.
The
> >source and destination Mac addresses aren't anything I can associate with
a
> >computer on our network (and they're not the real Mac address of my
> >computer), so I think maybe these packets are spoofed? Could this be some
> >sort of virus or DOS attack somewhere within our network? I've haven't
seen
> >anything quite like this mentioned online anywhere.
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> >Thanks, Marc
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