At 10:04 AM 7/20/2001, Mike Najarian wrote:
Has anyone gutted an infected box to determine whether it's going to go for whitehouse.gov www.whitehouse.gov or a hardcoded IP?
While there's incomplete information available in the standard places, it appears to be a hardcoded IP. I, along with many others, have null routed it.... Symantec's site claims the IP address is no longer active at any rate. It *appears* that from xx-20-xxxx through xx-28-xxxx, this thing will attack that IP address... meaning that measures already in place will minimize damage from the portion of the code that attempts to flood 198.137.240.91. Networks where 198.137.240.91 isn't blocked could see network congestion, I suppose, if they host a large number of infected machines. I've seen a claim that if the date is greater than 28, the threads just go into an infinite sleep. From what I can see, I would expect another round of probes to take place starting on 01-August-2001...