Archive for April, 2009

Scanning for Conficker's peer to peer

Filed under: Malware, Tools

Hi everybody, With the help of Symantec's Security Intelligence Analysis Team, I've put together a script that'll detect Conficker (.C and up) based on its peer to peer ports. The script is called p2p-conficker.nse, and automatically runs against any Windows system when scripts are being used: nmap --script p2p-conficker,smb-os-discovery,smb-check-vulns \ --script-args=safe=1 -T4 -p445 <host> or [...]

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Permalink Comments (13) Ron Bowes Apr 21, 2009

Updated Conficker detection

Filed under: Malware, NetBIOS/SMB

Morning, all! Last night Fyodor and crew rolled out Nmap 4.85beta7. This was because some folks from the Honeynet Project discovered a false negative (showed no infection where an infection was present), which was then confirmed by Tenable. We decided to be on the safe side, and updated our checks. 4.85 also contains several bugfixes [...]

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Permalink Comments (3) Ron Bowes Apr 2, 2009