As far as I know, they are not trying to download your cmd.exe, but
rather trying to exploit an unpatched IIS to *run* cmd.exe and give them
a shell; I don't know what they'd do if you actually returned some
file.exe but it is an interesting idea.  It is likely not the response
they are hoping for, though, so I think it would not qualify as a
tarpit/honeypot/etc, which I find more interesting.  For instance, you
could stage up some vanilla win2k system -- maybe if you had what looked
like installers for expensive programs laying around on it (but were
actually one terabyte of 1's, self-extracting) then your plan could
work.  I would want any trojan .exe to collect some info about where it
is running, and maybe try to send out the info to a centralized source.

Fun ideas, however.  As far as your logs "filling up with junk", I think
that is pretty darn important to log, and you might want to consider
either turning off httpd, or else adding some firewall rules to deny
most connections if this is a problem for you  = )  For instance, I run
snort in addition, so for every one of these IIS exploit-attempts, I see
the apache log as well as the snort alert log.  Handy, IMHO.

Regards,

   Ben


On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 00:34:48 -0500
Linux Rocks ! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

| ....
| you can run host or dig on the IP if you're
| ohh.. Im pretty sure they are users from the same ISP. 
| .....
| 
| hmmm... interesting.. I like this idea... might be fun :) it got me
| thinking of what to send them... I was thinking a file full of 1's in
| a self extracting exe would be fun. If their program executes this
| file to test it, what might happen if it extracts a file of ohh say a
| few terrabytes of 1's ? how small will a compressed file of 1's be ?
| 
| I suppose i could be really malicious and send them a trojan... 
| 
| or possibly theres something even more horrific that others might
| suggest?
| 
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