RTP Traffic to 1.1.1.1

Feb 3, 2010

I was reading RIPE Labs’ very interesting post called Pollution in 1/8. The article talks about traffic being sent to the 1/8 address space, which has recently been temporarily allocated. One part of the article caught my eye:

“We found that almost 60% of the UDP packets are sent towards the IP address 1.1.1.1 on port 15206 which makes up the largest amount of packets seen by our RRC. Most of these packets start their data section with 0x80, continue with seemingly random data and are padded to 172 bytes with an (again seemingly random) 2 byte value. Some sources (http://www.proxyblind.org/trojan.shtml) list the port as being used by a trojan called “KiLo”, however information about it seem sparse.”

I think I have an answer to that. Its not a trojan. On the SIP front we’ve been seeing some INVITE scans which start an RTP stream to IP 1.1.1.1 and port 15206. In fact RTP streams start with 0x80. Enough talk, lets take a look at a sample SIP message from these INVITE scans:

INVITE sip:011442083327467@re.pl.ac.ed SIP/2.0
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 83.142.202.195:3058;branch=ca4b60ae7ba821fREPLACEDjrgrg;rport
From: <sip:sip@83.142.202.195>;tag=Za4b60aeREPLACED
To: <sip:011442083327467@re.pl.ac.ed>
Contact: <sip:sip@83.142.202.195>
Call-ID: 213948958-00227506489-384748@83.142.202.195
CSeq: 102 INVITE
User-Agent: Asterisk PBX
Max-Forwards: 70
Allow: INVITE, ACK, CANCEL, OPTIONS, BYE, REFER, SUBSCRIBE, NOTIFY
Supported: replaces
Content-Type: application/sdp
Content-Length: 503

v=0
o=sip 2147483647 1 IN IP4 1.1.1.1
s=sip
c=IN IP4 1.1.1.1
t=0 0
m=audio 15206 RTP/AVP 10 4 3 0 8 112 5 7 18 111 101
a=rtpmap:10 L16/8000
a=rtpmap:4 G723/8000
a=fmtp:4 annexa=no
a=rtpmap:3 GSM/8000
a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000
a=rtpmap:8 PCMA/8000
a=rtpmap:112 AAL2-G726-32/8000
a=rtpmap:5 DVI4/8000
a=rtpmap:7 LPC/8000
a=rtpmap:18 G729/8000
a=fmtp:18 annexb=no
a=rtpmap:111 G726-32/8000
a=rtpmap:101 telephone-event/8000
a=fmtp:101 0-16
a=silenceSupp:off - - - -
a=ptime:20
a=sendrecv

So what does this mean? According to the article, almost 60% of the traffic being sent to 1.1.1.1 consists of these RTP streams. The majority of the traffic is sent to 1.1.1.1 and is UDP traffic, meaning that the majority of Internet traffic being sent to the 1.1.1/24 is in fact RTP traffic generated by these scans.

The impression that I’m getting is that there’s a lot of such INVITE scanning going on, and a large number of SIP entities on the Internet are responding to these scans by starting an RTP stream.

Sjur posted his analysis of this on his blog too.