11 Aug
2003
11 Aug
'03
5:33 p.m.
--On Monday, August 11, 2003 02:26:40 PM -0700 Mike Damm <MikeD@irwinresearch.com> wrote:
The DCOM exploit that is floating around crashes the Windows RPC service when the attacker closes the connection to your system after a successful attack. Best bet is to assume any occurrence of crashing RPC services to be signs of a compromised system until proven otherwise.
That's good advice. Many of the known exploits cause the RPC service to crash after the exploit is successful. I'll point out that not all exploits cause the service failure. So, the absence of an RPC service failure is likewise not an indicator that a vulnerable machine has escaped compromise. Kevin