Port 5000 increase due to two worms: Bobax and Kibuv
Two very different worms are currently responsible for the rapid increase in
port 5000 scans. The first, 'Bobax', uses port 5000 to identify Windows XP
systems. Windows XP uses port 5000 (TCP) for 'Universal Plug and Play (UPnP)'. By
default, UPnP is enabled. The second worm, 'Kibuv', will use an old vulnerability
in Windows XP's UPnP implementation to exploit systems. This vulnerability was one
of the first discovered in Windows XP and patches have been available.
Bobax
Joe Stewart (LURHQ Corp.) compiled an analysis of this worm:
http://www.lurhq.com/bobax.html
. Short summary for the inpatient:
Installs an HTTP listener on a random port ( 2000-62000). This HTTP server
is used to deliver the trojan to infected systems.
Scans port 5000 (tcp). If port 5000 responds, the LSASS exploit will be used
to compromise the host and download the trojan from the infecting system's http server
Contacts one of a number of web servers to notify them of the successful
infection
Kibuv.B
Kibuv.B will start and FTP server on port 7955. Any username / password combination will work. The FTP server will always send a copy of the worm,
regardless of the file requested. This is similar to other malware ftp serves.
Kibuv.B uses 7 different mechanisms to spread:
Messenger Service Buffer Overrun
IIS 5.0 WebDav vulnerability
UPnP Buffer Overflow
RPC DCOM Buffer Overflow
LSASS vulnerability
backdoors created by Weird and Beagle
Sasser FTP server overflow
<P>
The IRC server used to control Kibuv.B infected systems is no longer accepting
connections.
<P>
Kibuv will open a backdoor on port 420 (tcp).
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More details: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.kibuv.b.html
Summary/Impact
None of the vulnerabilities used by these two worms is new. Unpatched systems are likely infected with other worms and do as such not provide a significant new threat. So far, we only count about 500,000 infected systems with either worm, which is just about on the same level as Sasser and Blaster.
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Johannes Ullrich, jullrich_AT_sans.org
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