I think MS08-67 just stops propagation from remote machines (or it should ?) 
but you can get infected straightly from the malware.
 
GuidoElia
HELPPC
 

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Da: Rankin, James R [mailto:[email protected]] 
Inviato: giovedì 24 febbraio 2011 7.59
A: NT System Admin Issues
Oggetto: Re: Conficker


I am looking at deploying SCOM ACS when I finish the xenapp stuff, so that 
should help track the lockouts


Typed frustratingly slowly on my BlackBerry® wireless device

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From: Greg Olson <[email protected]> 
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:24:15 +0000
To: NT System Admin Issues<[email protected]>
ReplyTo: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Conficker


I can confirm that it does exactly this as it was trying to login with AD 
service accounts from a laptop that we're created one off for a Linux server). 
We got hit with it again last week on two machines, but luckily we we're 
running account lockout software that tracks lockouts real-time and it was 
really easy to trace it down to the two machines quickly and take them off-line 
before they got to others. Both machines had the latest and greatest MS patches 
and Vipre defs as well which is sad panda.

If you don't have something watching your ad for lockouts they have a free 30 
day trial that I'd highly recommend if you're going through a Conficker 
outbreak. It's fully functional and will get you a picture of what machines are 
doing the work really quickly. On a normal day we would have a few (maybe 4-5 
lockouts) but one conficker machine would cause 30-40 in a few minutes. Times 
that but a ton of infected machines and uggh.

http://www.netwrix.com/account_lockout_examiner.html

 

Good luck!

-Greg 

 

 

From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 10:54 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Conficker

 

I'm sorry for what you are going through - but that's impressive if true.

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On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:52 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote:

It is locking out unique userids that haven't logged on to the machines in 
question, ever. I can only assume it must be querying the directory in some way.

 

On 23 February 2011 18:50, Micheal Espinola Jr <[email protected]> 
wrote:

It attempts to brute-force common accounts with common passwords as a method of 
authentication in order to spread. Are you seeing something that you would 
consider /unique/ to your domain?


I wasnt aware that it would try to attack unique accounts based on locallly 
chached information, but it certainly wouldnt be a far stretch for what 
downadup can otherwise do.

 

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On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:26 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote:

Right, for my sins I appear to be stuck in the middle of a Conficker outbreak. 
I'm not here to advise about security, but five minutes into outbreak and the 
glaring hole of Autoplay being enabled is clearly how this thing is 
propagating, and they've been told. Fools - they are in the process of learning 
the hard way.

I avoided Conficker in my last few roles thanks to good security practices, 
there's one question I can't work out from the Conficker write-ups though. How 
does this thing get it's list of accounts to attack? We have accounts locking 
out right left and centre, but they are clearly not just accounts that have 
previously logged on to the local machine. Does anyone know if this little 
beastie queries Active Directory in some way?

TIA,



JRR

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