Anybody else seeing a surge in exploit attempts from Iran?

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Jeremy Shelley

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Oct 10, 2012, 7:59:47 AM10/10/12
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Over the past two days our firewalls have seen a huge surge in attacks from IP addresses in Iran (almost 30,000 attempts in the last 24 hours).  The attacker is attempting to exploit port 2623 (LMDP?) or 3009 (PXC-NTFY?).

Is anybody else seeing traffic like this or are we just the lucky target?

This group looks like it's going to be a great resource!

Jeremy

Bugbear

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Oct 10, 2012, 9:22:55 AM10/10/12
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We had about 15,000 packets from 2.185.244.128 destined for source UDP 3009 on October 8th. It stopped and there was no additional traffic to or from that IP so I have not grabbed a capture.

Tim


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Roper Rop

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Apr 9, 2013, 6:48:23 PM4/9/13
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17.172.232.153.5223

Phillip Smith

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Apr 9, 2013, 7:03:55 PM4/9/13
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On 10 April 2013 08:48, Roper Rop <br...@ptsi.net> wrote:

17.172.232.153.5223

A quick whois will tell you 17.0.0.0/8 is registered to Apple. Port 5223 is Apple's Push Notification Services [1]. Perhaps you've added new Apple devices to your network, or existing ones have been upgraded to versions that incorporate APNS?

What you're calling an "attack" is likely just trailing packets from a valid connection. IME Apple are quite chatty with their "closed" connections.


Tom Byrnes

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Apr 10, 2013, 12:45:14 AM4/10/13
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ThreatSTOP’s Check IP shows that this is a clean IP, in the US, that belongs to Apple.

 

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Joel Esler

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Apr 9, 2013, 7:05:02 PM4/9/13
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All of the 17. Block is owned by Apple.  Also port 5223 is jabber. Iirc. Are you using Jabber?  Do you have a Mac?

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Ziots, Edward

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Apr 10, 2013, 7:35:33 AM4/10/13
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Concurr this is defintely Apple in the USA.

 

http://www.geoiptool.com/en/?IP=17.172.232.153

 

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HAREN BHATT

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Apr 10, 2013, 9:04:00 AM4/10/13
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A detailed Who IS - As below:
None of the port are seen open. 

Domain Whois record

Don't have a domain name for which to get a record

Network Whois record

Queried whois.arin.net with "n 17.172.232.153"...

NetRange:       17.0.0.0 - 17.255.255.255
CIDR:           17.0.0.0/8
OriginAS:       
NetName:        APPLE-WWNET
NetHandle:      NET-17-0-0-0-1
Parent:         
NetType:        Direct Assignment
RegDate:        1990-04-16
Updated:        2012-04-02
Ref:            http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-17-0-0-0-1

OrgName:        Apple Inc.
OrgId:          APPLEC-1-Z
Address:        20400 Stevens Creek Blvd., City Center Bldg 3
City:           Cupertino
StateProv:      CA
PostalCode:     95014
Country:        US
RegDate:        2009-12-14
Updated:        2011-03-08
Ref:            http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/APPLEC-1-Z

OrgAbuseHandle: APPLE11-ARIN
OrgAbuseName:   Apple Abuse
OrgAbusePhone:  +1-408-974-7777 
OrgAbuseEmail:  ab...@apple.com
OrgAbuseRef:    http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/APPLE11-ARIN

OrgTechHandle: ZA42-ARIN
OrgTechName:   Apple Computer Inc
OrgTechPhone:  +1-408-974-7777 
OrgTechEmail:  dr...@apple.com
OrgTechRef:    http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/ZA42-ARIN

RTechHandle: ZA42-ARIN
RTechName:   Apple Computer Inc
RTechPhone:  +1-408-974-7777 
RTechEmail:  dr...@apple.com
RTechRef:    http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/ZA42-ARIN

DNS records

DNS query for 153.232.172.17.in-addr.arpa returned an error from the server: NameError

No records to display

Traceroute

Tracing route to 17.172.232.153 [17.172.232.153]...

hop rttrtt rtt  ip addressfully qualified domain name
1 11 1 70.84.211.97 61.d3.5446.static.theplanet.com
2 10 1 70.87.254.5 po101.dsr02.dllstx5.networklayer.com
3 00 0 70.85.127.109 po52.dsr02.dllstx3.networklayer.com
4 10 0 173.192.18.230 ae17.bbr02.eq01.dal03.networklayer.com
5 00 0 4.59.36.93 xe-11-0-3.edge2.dallas3.level3.net
6 2525 25 4.69.145.190 vlan80.csw3.dallas1.level3.net
7 2525 24 4.69.151.158 ae-83-83.ebr3.dallas1.level3.net
8 2424 24 4.69.134.22 ae-7-7.ebr3.atlanta2.level3.net
9 2725 24 4.69.148.242 ae-63-63.ebr1.atlanta2.level3.net
10 2626 26 4.69.200.209 ae-1-10.bar1.charlotte1.level3.net
11 2626 25 4.69.200.218 ae-3-3.car1.charlotte1.level3.net
12 2928 27 4.71.124.62 apple-compu.car1.charlotte1.level3.net
13 ** * 
14* ** 
15 ** * 
16* ** 

Trace aborted

Service scan

FTP - 21 Error: TimedOut
SMTP - 25 Error: TimedOut
HTTP - 80 Error: ConnectionRefused
POP3 - 110 Error: TimedOut
IMAP - 143 Error: TimedOut

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BioChem Admin

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Sep 16, 2013, 3:52:46 PM9/16/13
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We have a large number of them too? 


On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 6:59:47 AM UTC-5, Jeremy Shelley wrote:
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