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Tracking down outgoing packets

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by leighj, Aug 9, 2005.

  1. leighj

    leighj Well-Known Member

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    I recently had my server compromized. So I secured it by reading a few of the threads
    I have APF running and I'm getting outgoing traffic that's being dropped. HOWEVER I'm not sure how to find out what is doing this.

    I have my logs and all and I can see the traffic (Ip address and all) but I'm not sure which process it's coming from.

    Is there a way to find this out?
     
    #1 leighj, Aug 9, 2005
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    Well, if the port is bound you can see what has it open with:

    netstat -lpn

    You can also use lsof to see what processes might have a port open. Ultimately, you can use tcpdump and monitor all traffic on a particular port, IP address, etc.
     
    #2 chirpy, Aug 10, 2005
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    Thanks I've looked at both of those options but... the program opening the port seems to only open the port intermittantly and from random IP addresses and to random IP addresses... I was hoping there was a tcpdump option that could track the source app of the packets but I know I was dreaming or drunk at the time...
     
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    There is a tool called ngrep which is pretty good at helping track down packets on certain IPs also.
     
    #4 kris1351, Aug 10, 2005
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    I had a search for something that would easily allow you to monitor a port and track back to the app but didn't find anything (I didn't try that hard).

    Something you could do, if you really wanted, is to look at some kind of daemon on the server that listens on that port and once a connection to it is made, it keeps it open and then runs lsof or the like to track back what has that connection open. Just an idea, something like that may already be out there.
     
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    The thing is that it's kinda triggered by something (not by crond i THINK) and then tries to send out traffic on a weird port.

    The only thing I could find out about the port was
    Port number: 50858 (also 50700)
    Common name(s): client-port on Red Hat Linux 9.0, Fedora Core 1, Red Hat Enterprise 3
    Common service(s): client
    Service description(s): Outgoing client connections from systems.
    Common server(s): RPC based services, Windows Messaging Service.
    Common client(s): All client software (SSH, Web clients, etc.)
    Common problem(s): Insecure client software
    Encrypted options: Not applicable
    Secure options: Not applicable
    Firewalling recommendations: Block inbound connections to client ports, allow outgoing connections and returning packets (keep state)
     
    #6 leighj, Aug 10, 2005
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    I think I found something you can use.

    Portwatch counts the number of connections from a single ip to a specific port. This script is useful to see how many request are comming into somthing like apache/ftp/smtp/pop/imap/etc at that point in time from a single ip. Shows both UDP/TCP

    You can download it from :

    http://www.cplicensing.net/files/scripts/portwatch

    Enjoy :)
     
    #7 shashank, Aug 10, 2005
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