Similar to Yee Ching's diary on Thursday, I noticed an oddity in the Dshield data last weekend (which I had hoped to discuss in a diary on Wednesday, but life got in the way) and thought it was worth asking around to see if anyone knows what is going on. As soon as I saw it, I reconfigured my honeypots to try to capture the traffic, but wasn't able to. I'm always very interested when I see some of the legacy ports and protocols pop up. In this case, port 37 is the time protocol which operates on both TCP and UDP and is one of the many services that frequently ran on the low ports of Unix machines I administered back in the 1980s and 1990s. In recent years, most operating systems have disabled these services since they only seemed to be used for DDoS purposes. On Thursday, I took another look at the graph.
So, I'm not sure what to make of it, especially without any packets. If any of you managed to capture any of this traffic last weekend and early this past week and care to share, we'd love to have a look. Otherwise, if you have any insight into what was going on, please share below or via our contact form. I'm always very curious about these traffic oddities. --------------- |
Jim 423 Posts ISC Handler Jun 5th 2021 |
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