FWIW, this is from an IP squatting operation I came across in recent weeks. I encounter these things regularly in the course of working with BGP data - probably others do too. Usually I look up the ASN or prefix and often it has already been added to someone's spam source list. When I see that, I assume the "system is working" and move on.
In this case, starting late Jun, we have seen IP address ranges from around the
world (most ranges are unused, sometimes hijacked space) announced by one of
two (formerly unused) ASNs and routed through another formerly unused ASN,
57756, then on to Anders (AS39792) and out to the Internet in the following
form:
... 39792 57756 {3.721, 43239} prefix
The prefixes are only routed for an hour or two before it moves on to the next
range of IP address space. Not sure if this is for spam or something else.
Either way, it is probably associated with something bad. Earlier this month I
reached out to a contact at Anders in Russia and gave him some details about
what was happening. I didn't get a response, but within a couple of days the
routing (mostly) shifted from Anders to through Petersburg Internet Network
(AS44050). I have no idea if this was due to my email. The day it moved to PIN
I sent similar emails to addresses I could find at PIN, but haven't seen any
response. Now the these routes take one of two forms:
... 39792 57756 {3.721, 43239} prefix
Or
... 44050 57756 {3.721, 43239} prefix
This is mostly routed through Cogent (AS174), but Anders (AS39792) also has a
lot of peers. I would advise that people treat any route coming through AS57756
is probably bad. AS57756 doesn't originate anything and hasn't since 28-Jun
when it very briefly hijacked some NZ space.
Also, Pierre-Antoine Vervier from Symantec gave a good talk at NANOG in Feb
about IP squatting for spam generation. Pierre and I have since compared notes
on this topic.
-Doug Madory
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tarun Dua" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 12:55:25 PM
> Subject: Prefix hijacking, how to prevent and fix currently
>
> AS Number 43239
> AS Name SPETSENERGO-AS SpetsEnergo Ltd.
>
> Has started hijacking our IPv4 prefix, while this prefix was NOT in
> production, it worries us that it was this easy for someone to hijack
> it.
>
> http://bgp.he.net/AS43239#_prefixes
>
> 103.20.212.0/22 <- This belongs to us.
>
> 103.238.232.0/22 KNS Techno Integrators Pvt. Ltd.
> 193.43.33.0/24 hydrocontrol S.C.R.L.
> 193.56.146.0/24 TRAPIL - Societe des Transports Petroliers par Pipeline
>
> Where do we complain to get this fixed.
>
> -Tarun
> AS132420
>
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