Re: Need help to detect BOTNET-CNC Palevo bot DNS attack

[Kevin Ross <kevross33 () googlemail com>]

What this sig is catching is queries for a known malicious command and
control domain name. What you need to do is enable logging on your local
DNS server and then search for the domain specific in the signature in
those logs when you get hits to determine who is making them. You could
also redirect the domain to another IP on your network and log who attempts
to connect to that.

Also if your firewall/ips lets you upload your own snort signatures then I
would look at the emergingthreats.net rules in emerging-trojan,
emerging-malware etc for any Palevo sigs (I would recommend running
emergingthreats rules for the additional detection anyway).

The domain you want to look for is butterfly.sinip.es

Regards,
Kevin Ross


On 11 December 2011 16:53, babu dheen <babudheen () yahoo co in> wrote:

>    Dear James,
>
>  Thanks for your response. Actually i have two query on your update.
>
> 1. You mentioned that since data content contains malicious code, this
> siganture fires, but i would like to update you that when this signature
> fires, source and destination IP showing DNS servers only (not infected
> client IP). Do you mean that when infected client makes DNS query to CNC
> botnet URL, DNS query itself contain malicious content?
>
> 2. If you consider any small company network, all internal machines would
> be pointed to company internal DNS server and internal DNS server will be
> pointed to ISP DNS server.
>    So if this signature fires, will we never see true client IP address in
> any network?
>
> 3. Sorry, i am not familiar with snort signatures and hence i am not able
> to understand your query.
>
>  I will be happy if you can provide more details on this.
>
> Regards
> Babu
>
>
>
> --- On *Sun, 11/12/11, James Lay <jlay () slave-tothe-box net>* wrote:
>
>
> From: James Lay <jlay () slave-tothe-box net>
>
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Need help to detect BOTNET-CNC Palevo bot DNS
> attack
> To: "Snort" <snort-users () lists sourceforge net>
> Date: Sunday, 11 December, 2011, 8:08 PM
>
>
>
>  On Dec 11, 2011, at 12:23 AM, babu dheen wrote:
>
>    Dear,
>
>  We are using Astaro Firewall with IPS in pass through mode for last one
> year. We have been noticing  many number of  "BOTNET-CNC Palevo bot DNS
> request for C&C attempt" attack showing in IPS summery report wherein
> source address and destination address showing only DNS server which source
> address is my company internal DNS server and destination is ISP DNS server.
>
> We would like to find out the botnet infected clients which this IPS
> report shows. To help on this, we would like to know from which central
> URLs snort is downloading malware domains in its database so that we can
> refer the common URL against the DNS logs and find out the infected clients
> list.
>
> I need your valuable help and guidelines on this.
>
> Note: As you know, Astaro firewall is using Snort signature for IPS
> functionality.
>
>    *Rule ID*
>  *Rule Nmae*
>  *Group*
>  *Events*
>  *16297*
>  *BOTNET-CNC Palevo bot DNS
> request for C&C attempt*
>  *Server*
>  *1018*
>
>
> Regards
> Babu
>
>
>
>  Look at the rule dude:
>
> alert udp $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET 53 (msg:"BOTNET-CNC Palevo bot
> DNS request for C&C attempt"; flow:to_server;
> content:"butterfly|05|sinip|02|es"; nocase; metadata:impact_flag red,
> policy balanced-ips drop, policy security-ips drop, service dns;
> reference:url,
> www.virustotal.com/analisis/c790a26f38070632759f481a87ed60c1628dea723ad63577cfe373de6b81e0a7-1249566492;
> classtype:trojan-activity; sid:16297; rev:3;)
>
> Looks like it's not concerned with a list, but with data content.  I'd
> turn on DNS logging on your internal server to find out which internal
> machines may be infected.  Hope that helps.
>
> James
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