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Re: Router / Protocol Problem

  • From: Sam Stickland
  • Date: Thu Sep 07 11:05:38 2006 
Hi John,

John Kristoff wrote:

On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 07:27:16 -0400
"Mike Walter" <[email protected]> wrote:


Sep  7 06:50:20.697 EST: %SEC-6-IPACCESSLOGP: list 166 denied tcp
69.50.222.8(25) -> 69.4.74.14(2421), 4 packets

[...]
I'm not very familiar with NBAR or how to use it for CodeRed, but this
first rule:


access-list 166 deny   ip any any dscp 1 log

Seems dubious.  So I'm not not sure what sets the codepoint to 000001
by default, but apparently CodeRed does?  Nevertheless, this seems like
a very weak basis for determining whether something is malicious.
It's his NBAR config lower down that sets the dscp value:

class-map match-any http-hacks
match protocol http url "*default.ida*"
match protocol http url "*cmd.exe*"
match protocol http url "*root.exe*"

policy-map mark-inbound-http-hacks
class http-hacks
set ip dscp 1


So, there's probably two things that could happen here: One, NBAR is incorrectly identifying the SMTP traffic as code red, or two, the SMTP traffic is already marked with dscp 1. If you've using these values internally in your own network then they should be reset on all externally received traffic.

Sam