RE: Pls. help identify strange service listening on TCP port 25

From: Joshua Vince (joshv@bcgsys.com)
Date: Fri Aug 15 2003 - 16:55:19 EDT


That's SMTP, but w/ the Cisco PIX fixup protocol protecting it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Sayer [mailto:msayer@neocomm.com.au]
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 11:05 PM
To: pen-test@securityfocus.com
Subject: Pls. help identify strange service listening on TCP port 25

Howdy folks -

No - it's not SMTP - at least nothing I have ever seen before. When
connecting to TCP port 25 I get the following banner:

220
***0*******************************************2************************
*200***0********0**0

On subsquent connections, I get slightly different banners:

220
***0*******************************************2************************
*200***2********0**0

or

220
***0*******************************************2************************
*200***2*20*02**0**0

or

220
***0*******************************************2************************
*200***2*20*****0**0

If I enter more than 1 character of text and press ENTER, I get the
error message:

500 web03: unknown command.

If I enter a single character and press ENTER, I get no response and the
service becomes un-responsive to any further interaction.

Looks like FTP return codes - 220 being service ready, and 500 being
command not found - but it doesn't seem to want to talk back to me via
FTP protocol.

I think it's very rude.

It's running on a Win2k server with IIS5 installed.

Any ideas as to what this might be?

Cheers,

Mark.

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