Bizarre connections from and to a FC7 unattended

Thomas TS ttsoares at cristhom.com.br
Mon Jul 23 17:53:35 UTC 2007


This is a FC7 full updated.
The system is running with no user logged in.
Just some default daemons and services:

# netstat -apn | grep LIST | grep tcp

tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:8000                
0.0.0.0:*                  LISTEN      2580/nasd
tcp        0      0 192.168.122.1:53            
0.0.0.0:*                  LISTEN      2834/dnsmasq
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:821                       
0.0.0.0:*                  LISTEN      2335/rpc.statd
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:631                   
0.0.0.0:*                  LISTEN      2525/cupsd
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:25                     
0.0.0.0:*                  LISTEN      2559/sendmail: acce
tcp        0      0 :::111                                 
:::*                           LISTEN      2301/rpcbind
tcp        0      0 :::22                                   
:::*                           LISTEN      2539/sshd


This box is behind a NAT and from the gateway one can look the 
connections to/from the FC7 system.

After some time monitoring with iptraf several - for me - strange 
connections appears...

┌ TCP Connections (Source Host:Port) ───────────── Packets ─── Bytes ─── 
Flags ──── Iface ─────┐
│┌192.168.1.254:42977                                                    
=     695           45740     --A-                  eth2       │
│└192.168.1.129:22                                            
               =     575           96948     -PA-                
eth2       │
│┌193.28.235.40:80                                                
           =       0               0            ----                  
eth2       │
│└192.168.1.129:45869                                                    
=       4             240          S---                 eth2       │
│┌192.168.1.129:44799                                                    
=       8             565          --A-                 eth2       │
│└131.252.208.96:80                                                
        =       7            2730    CLOSED             eth2       │
│┌193.140.100.100:21                                            
          =       0               0             ----                 
eth2       │
│└192.168.1.129:55991                                                    
=       1              46       RESET               eth2       │
│┌192.168.1.129:56462                                                    
=       0               0            ----                  eth2       │
│└64.90.181.77:55979                                                   
   >       1              52           --A-                 eth2       │
│┌192.168.1.129:22                                                     
     =      49            6668     CLOSED           eth2       │
│└192.168.1.254:36544                                                    
=      64            7008     CLOSED           eth2       │
│┌192.168.1.129:44507                                                    
=       9             641          --A-                 eth2       │
│└209.132.176.120:80                                                  
    =       9            4689     CLOSED            eth2       │

Some are obviously acceptable, as 209.132.176.120  
admin.fedora.redhat.com  but a lot ones are to places very strange !!!

I am already blocking all to/from

198.82.161.0/24
193.28.235.0/24
147.102.222.0/24
131.252.208.0/24

because could not figure out why and witch program was doing a lot of 
uploads from my system to hosts at IPs at those class B and C nets...

Am i to paranoid ?




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