TFTP Honey Pot Results

41 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 18 comments

jrockway 2 hours ago |

I like the prompt injection attempt on the footer:

This reminds me of Slashdot commenters back in the day that tried to include words like "bomb" in their signatures in the hopes of flagging some government system. I am glad that people haven't gotten tired of this sort of tomfoolery and have adapted it for a modern world :)

nyrikki 22 minutes ago | |

I almost got kicked off an early ISP for

     echo “+++ATH0” > ~/.plan

On the shell host they provided, it would reliably hang up lots of modems if someone ‘fingered’ you back in the day. You could do it in busy IRC channels well onto the 2000’s and still see some people drop off line.

Scoundreller 14 minutes ago | | |

Similarly some AV software would “listen” to your IRC comms to check for c&c indicators which meant you could paste it into a channel and a pile of people would disconnect (and you’d be quickly banned).

forty 1 hour ago | |

If I'm not mistaken, it's not a prompt injection attempt, but a training data pollution, in order to prepare for a prompt injection later :) great idea

jrockway 1 hour ago | | |

You're right. Fable 5 did not enjoy this question, but no doubt future models will.

Bender 32 minutes ago | |

Not sure if it counts but I point many DNS records to 169.254.169.254 so that skiddies will scan the cloud init management interface of their VPS in hopes to draw attention. The result was the skiddies on Amazon AWS and DigitalOcean filtered my domains from their scan target lists.

sscaryterry 25 minutes ago | |

Bobby Tables 2.0

vivi_ 3 hours ago |

I love investigating internet background radiation, this is interesting research. I've definitely seen spa504g.cfg (IP Phone) and spa112.cfg (Cisco analog terminal adapter) before; you should actually serve these a proper config file and spin up a disposable SIP server so you can (potentially) call them on the phone, send them a fax or even better ATDT ;)

Though, come to think of it these requests are more likely from credential harvesting bots as most ITSP's provision their CPE with a <macaddr>.cfg or similar.

racnid 1 hour ago | |

The 00000000000.cfg stuck out to me too, because that's the default/base config name for polycom phones.

ceving 1 hour ago |

Most evil is China: https://github.com/ceving/hostile/blob/main/TOP20.md

bashtoni 2 hours ago |

I can't be the only one smiling at the mention of file_id.diz

UI_at_80x24 2 hours ago | |

Man, besides being slow; I really miss those days.

I could say I was "into computers" and it meant something. Eternal September ruined it.

BigTTYGothGF 1 hour ago | | |

You just need more esoteric hobbies.

cyanydeez 2 hours ago | | |

Eternal september is more of a concept than a real thing; you had to have seen that by now; almost everything gets ruined when there's no discriminating force.

nubinetwork 3 hours ago |

50 packets a day is peanuts, I think the lowest ranking service group that I track is printers, and even that's around ~200 unique ips per day.

stackghost 3 hours ago | |

>peanuts

No kidding. I have a few personal services running on Internet-facing servers and they get hammered 24/7.

One of my projects is written in Rails and I had left the server on the default verbosity during development. It accumulated several GB of systemd/journald logs in a matter of weeks.

50 packets a day sounds like a dream.

blcknight 2 hours ago |

I know tftp is still in wide use, I wonder if there's things out there looking for stuff that's less common like NNTP, finger servers, etc