full-disclosure - Re: Know Your Enemy: Tracking Botnets (ThorstenHolz)

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From: thorsten.holz at mmweg.rwth-aachen.de (Thorsten Holz)
Subject: Re: Know Your Enemy: Tracking Botnets
	(ThorstenHolz)

Egoist wrote:

> VKve> Have to admit, for such a lame tool as agobot, it's certainly 
> nailed a lot VKve> of systems. ;)
> 
> Lot of systems? Where you get that statistic ? How do u analyze that?
> 
One possible way to estimate this is taking a look at logfiles: For
example, Agobot performs a speed test on startup. One of the domains for
this test is www.belwue.de. So if you are in the lucky position and are
admin for this domain, just take a look how often this speed test is
performed (HTTP POST of file with size of 1MB). In Mai 2004, about
300,000 IP addresses could be identified per _day_ in this way. Even if
you take doubles into account, I would say that it nailed a lot of
systems :-)

Reference: 12th DFN-CERT Workshop (http://www.dfn-cert.de/events/ws/2005)

Cheers,
   Thorsten