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One of our readers have reported that he has seen a broadcast traffic to udp/137 . He suspected that the traffic cause a denial of service to some of his systems. If you have seen such traffic and you would like to share some packets we would appreciate that.
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Basil 56 Posts ISC Handler |
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Apr 1st 2014 4 years ago |
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This might be pointing out the obvious to this crowd, but normally udp port 137 is NetBIOS name service. It is on by default on all windows systems, not 100% sure about windows server 2012. So everybody has this type of traffic unless you manually disable netbios on the network interfaces. Yes, I know that malware can communicate over this protocol and port.
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Anonymous |
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Apr 3rd 2014 4 years ago |
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Indeed, this may simply be a netbios scan. Using auxiliary/scanner/netbios/nbname_probe in metasploit produces lots of traffic on udp/137. I assume nbname queries could be broadcast for hostname discovery.
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red0green 4 Posts |
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Dec 4th 2015 2 years ago |
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