[Esd-l] I don't like the looks of this one

John D. Hardin jhardin at impsec.org
Tue Oct 30 06:58:01 PST 2001


On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Brett Glass wrote:

> What sort of attack is this?
> 
> --Brett
> 
> Trapped excessively long header:
> Subject: -tgnlogontgnlogondesktopsampledesktopdesktopgics_mapdesktoptgnlogongics_mapgics_maptgnlogontgnlogontgnlogondesktopdesktopgics_maptgn-doc-downloadgics_maptgn-doc-downloadtgnlogontgn-doc-downloadsamplesampletgn-doc-downloadgics_mapsampledesktopgics_maptgnlmx.lariat.org.tgnlogon
> 
> STATUS: Header truncated.

That looks like the BO-autorun-email-attack portion of Nimda.

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