[Full-Disclosure] Mystery DNS Changes

Mary Landesman mlande at bellsouth.net
Wed Oct 1 22:12:48 BST 2003


This exploit has been dubbed QHosts-1 Trojan by NAI. Details can be found
at:
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100719.htm

Regards,
Mary Landesman
Antivirus About.com Guide
http://antivirus.about.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hansen, Kevin" <kevin.hansen at thomson.com>
To: <full-disclosure at lists.netsys.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 3:19 PM
Subject: [Full-Disclosure] Mystery DNS Changes


We have seen multiple instances where DHCP enabled workstations have had
their DNS reconfigured to point to two of the three addresses listed below.
Can anyone else confirm this? Incidents.org is reporting an increase in port
53 traffic over the last two days. Are we looking at the precursor to the
next worm?

216.127.92.38
69.57.146.14
69.57.147.175

-KJH




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