full-disclosure - ftp worm ?

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From: nick at virus-l.demon.co.uk (Nick FitzGerald)
Subject: ftp worm ?

Robert Perriero <perrieror1@...l.montclair.edu> wrote:

> I would be willing to bet that this is a modified "pub scanner". Similar 
> to the apache exploit posted, it appears as if it attempts to connect to 
> machines using known user accounts and passwords. It probably isn't a 
> worm, but rather someone behind a keyboard attempting to find a place to 
> store warez.

Your knowledge of pubstro is a tad out of date.  Many pubstro kits 
have, for ages, included various kinds of vulnerability scanners.  More 
recently (like at least 18 months ago?) semi-automatic "find the next 
victim" features were also being added to some pubstro kit, culminating 
in at least some fully automated, self-spreading pubstro agents.

In most people's mind, that makes them worms...

I agree that the detects could be evidence of such scanning.

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Nick FitzGerald
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