RE: "Code Red" worm questions

["Marc Maiffret" <marc () eeye com>]

We know the worm can "deface" the website of servers it infects. We are
still looking into the exact thing that makes it do so. It will be in our
full analysis.

Signed,
Marc Maiffret
Chief Hacking Officer
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|-----Original Message-----
|From: Johannes B. Ullrich [mailto:jullrich () euclidian com]
|Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 12:11 PM
|To: Marc Maiffret
|Cc: w1re p4ir; incidents () securityfocus com
|Subject: RE: "Code Red" worm questions
|
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|
|I just checked a number of the potential 'Red Alert' victims I got at
|DShield.org. None of them appear to be defaced. Are there multiple
|variations? Is there a special url that's used for the defaced page?
|
|
|On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Marc Maiffret wrote:
|
|> It has a jump location that works on all win2k sp versions (have
|only tested
|> English, but from other research we think the worm only tries to attack
|> English anyways). NT4 it just looks to crash it but we are not done with
|> testing yet.
|>
|> It works very well and uses a lot of the new overflow techniques
|which allow
|> it to execute code more often then crashing IIS web servers.
|>
|> Signed,
|> Marc Maiffret
|> Chief Hacking Officer
|> eEye Digital Security
|> T.949.349.9062
|> F.949.349.9538
|> http://eEye.com/Retina - Network Security Scanner
|> http://eEye.com/Iris - Network Traffic Analyzer
|> http://eEye.com/SecureIIS - Stop known and unknown IIS vulnerabilities
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|> |-----Original Message-----
|> |From: w1re p4ir [mailto:w1rep4ir () disinfo net]
|> |Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 8:44 AM
|> |To: incidents () securityfocus com
|> |Subject: "Code Red" worm questions
|> |
|> |
|> |I've read practically everything about this worm that has been
|> |released. But there are a few questions that I have. First off, I
|> |know the first exploit was written by hsj and it used the offsets
|> |for the japanesse version of IIS. Now in this new worm, has the
|> |code been modified with US (or other) offsets to attack english
|> |versions? I have already had a call regarding a possible "break in
|> |attempt." with very little other information. I would like to be
|> |able to them either they are vulnerable to this worm or not. Thank you,
|> |w1re
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