DDoS

今天(2014/01/14)发了4个安全公告和2个勘误公告，其中 FreeBSD-SA-14:02.ntpd 是针对 NTP 的这种攻击的因应措施。

攻击的原理是通过发送一个小包（GET_MONLIST），得到大体积的回应。而由于 NTP 使用了 UDP 协议，因此攻击者可以伪造源 IP，从而，通过较小的流量代价，即可利用其他服务器作为杠杆来攻击受害者。

今天发现一台国内的机器流量异常，检查发现这台机器上运行的 DNS 缓存服务被人用作了攻击的放大杠杆，这里简单记一下。

发现流量异常，首先当然是检查服务器上的 TCP 会话，发现了一些不太正常的东西，关闭之后流量减少，但仍然没有回到正常水平。

于是听包。这一听发现一大片：

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07:39:53.271744 IP 158.XX.XX.238.53019 > XX.XX.XX.XX.53: 56854+ [1au] ANY? isc.org. (36)
07:39:53.271772 IP 158.XX.XX.238.53019 > XX.XX.XX.XX.53: 56854+ [1au] ANY? isc.org. (36)
07:39:53.271784 IP 158.XX.XX.238.53019 > XX.XX.XX.XX.53: 56854+ [1au] ANY? isc.org. (36)
07:39:53.271792 IP 158.XX.XX.238.53019 > XX.XX.XX.XX.53: 56854+ [1au] ANY? isc.org. (36)
07:39:53.274225 IP 92.XX.XX.148.31650 > XX.XX.XX.XX.53: 23600+ [1au] ANY? isc.org. (36)
07:39:53.274252 IP 92.XX.XX.148.31650 > XX.XX.XX.XX.53: 23600+ [1au] ANY? isc.org. (36)
07:39:53.274262 IP 92.XX.XX.148.31650 > XX.XX.XX.XX.53: 23600+ [1au] ANY? isc.org. (36)
07:39:53.274270 IP 92.XX.XX.148.31650 > XX.XX.XX.XX.53: 23600+ [1au] ANY? isc.org. (36)
07:39:53.291822 IP 158.XX.XX.238.13616 > XX.XX.XX.XX.53: 56854+ [1au] ANY? isc.org. (36)
07:39:53.291850 IP 158.XX.XX.238.13616 > XX.XX.XX.XX.53: 56854+ [1au] ANY? isc.org. (36)
07:39:53.291860 IP 158.XX.XX.238.13616 > XX.XX.XX.XX.53: 56854+ [1au] ANY? isc.org. (36)
07:39:53.291869 IP 158.XX.XX.238.13616 > XX.XX.XX.XX.53: 56854+ [1au] ANY? isc.org. (36)
07:39:53.291877 IP 92.XX.XX.148.56278 > XX.XX.XX.XX.53: 23600+ [1au] ANY? isc.org. (36)

Apparantly there is some sort of DDoS attack against www.FreeBSDChina.org. What was that? Some internal information told me that it was an intended test against www.freebsdchina.org. We have found some defects in the original website design and that should be corrected soon.

I have plugged a workaround to defeat the DDoS attack, now the load average fall from 70 to 0.65.

I have watched spurious SYN messages and apparantly this has affected beastie.frontfree.net’s networking subsystem, namely, its mail system. The attack is from 203.81.27.11.

Whois indicates 203.81.27.11 is:

I’ve decided to disclose here (to a small group of people) due to the unresponsiveness from the phpBB group, which is the authoritive vendor of phpBB. A official public full disclose of this vulnerablity will be posted to BugTraq someday later.

This is a complex problem. A peer to peer system consists many self-determinating nodes is hard to control, and when it goes crazy, it will be easy to launch a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

Here are some of my thoughts, well, they are not mature and some of them might be misleading, but I will write them here.