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Wireshark logs from Conficker

April 9th, 2009

We captured some logs from Conficker which illustrate what it does.

The first screen shows the Conficker C variant and its well documented update mechanism through DNS queries.

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Second screens shows some interesting P2P traffic, using the TCP protocol and the Kazaa network.

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The IP sending those packets is located in China, registered under the “CNC Group Chongqing Province Network”.

The latest Conficker variant shows how well the Conficker infected nodes can communicate.

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