More on Protocol 47 denys

Following up on yesterday's diary on an increase in Protocol 47 traffic. Thanks to everyone who sent the ISC PCAPs and more information.

Current speculation is the Protocol 47 uptick is backscatter from a DDOS containing GRE traffic and using random source IPs.

While all of the packets appear to be IPv4 packets encapsulated in GRE, there are two flavors of packets involved. The smaller packets are consistently 66 bytes long and contain no data.

The larger packets vary in size, but are typically in the high 500's of bytes and contain 512 bytes of data. The data appears to be random.

While the sources show IPs from over 50 countries, about 55% of the source IPs in my data were from Taiwan, presumably these IPs are the primary attack targets.

Top 10 Sources by Country

Country	%
Taiwan	55.10%
United States	9.17%
Brazil	4.85%
Israel	3.22%
Romania	2.66%
Mexico	2.57%
Bulgaria	2.33%
Spain	2.19%
Uruguay	2.01%
China	1.89%

The majority of those were from IPs associated with Chungwa Telecom (HINET-NET), the largest ISP/Carrier in Taiwan.

Top 20 Sources by IP

source_address	Country
61.216.174.203	Taiwan	HINET-NET
220.128.119.155	Taiwan	HINET-NET
118.150.129.110	Taiwan	CHIEF-AS-AP
108.34.140.241	USA	VIS-BLOCK
122.116.118.57	Taiwan	HINET-NET
77.238.70.76	Bulgaria	FIBER1BG
59.125.241.196	Taiwan	HINET-NET
79.121.32.210	Hungary	VIDANET-AS
59.126.160.210	Taiwan	HINET-NET
114.34.6.239	Taiwan	HINET-NET
143.208.145.62	Brazil	Duarte & Dias Eletroeletronicos Ltda ME
1.34.143.67	Taiwan	HINET-NET
125.227.61.121	Taiwan	HINET-NET
191.243.115.113	Brazil	Nettel Telecomunicações Ltda
182.155.224.35	Taiwan	VEETIME-TW-AP
91.213.187.157	Ukraine	BIOSCOMP-AS
175.182.238.168	Taiwan	SEEDNET
61.63.178.186	Taiwan	SAVECOM-TW
95.42.116.59	Bulgaria	BTC-AS BULGARIA
24.249.56.149	USA	ASN-CXA-ALL-CCI-22773-RDC

However I can find no indication of an ongoing DDOS against Taiwan or Chungwa Telecom.

So while we have gotten further into the mystery, we still don't have the whole picture. Anybody have any ideas, or further information? If so, please contact us.

UPDATE 1919 UTC: Someone pointed out that there has been another, if smaller uptick against other protocols as well. My data shows that Protocols 132 and 255 are showing some traffic as well.

-- Rick Wanner MSISE - rwanner at isc dot sans dot edu - http://namedeplume.blogspot.com/ - Twitter:namedeplume (Protected)

Rick