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| Subject: | RE: [Snort-users] SA login failed..... |
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| Date: | Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:12:33 -0500 |
You're seeing this as a response, check the source IP for mssql accessible from the internet... Joel -----Original Message----- From: snort-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:snort-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Joe Matusiewicz Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:01 AM To: Jeff Heckart; snort-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Snort-users] SA login failed..... At 09:45 AM 3/29/2005, Jeff Heckart wrote: I am getting quite a few unusual alerts, and am confused with what I am seeing. The payload of the packet is: 04 01 00 3B 00 00 01 00 AA 27 00 18 48 00 00 01 ...;....*'..H... 0E 1B 00 4C 6F 67 69 6E 20 66 61 69 6C 65 64 20 ...Login failed 66 6F 72 20 75 73 65 72 20 27 73 61 27 2E 00 00 for user 'sa'... 00 00 FD 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ..}........ The strange thing is that the source is: x.x.x.x:1433 (our network) This looks like your MS sql server responding to someone's unsuccessful login attempt. There was a problem with MS sql a while back where the sql server set up the admin account (sa) with NO password. A worm was written to exploit it and this could be it. -- Joe
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