[Unbound-users] DNS poisoning - any ideas how this can happen?

[W.C.A. Wijngaards]

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Hi Martin,

On 09/02/15 18:33, Martin Bachmann wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We've run into a dns poisoning issue in our company network since 
> Friday. The issue is being discussed here:
> https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=87491.0 - we use Unbound 
> on a pfSense. A few other users have the same problem:
> 
> - All of a sudden, all host names resolve to a malware host. - It
> stops automatically after some time - There's no arp poisoning
> going on, so it really comes from Unbound on the pfSense

So, unbound comes with a set of commands for unbound-control that
allow you to monitor the runtime settings, and these are exactly meant
to be able to audit the settings in the runtime daemon and if they are
still correct.  unbound-control list_forwards.

You could try to use packet capture of traffic going to 8.8.8.8 and
the responses.   Or you can get unbound to log verbosely (high
verbosity setting), although much slower at level 4 it'll print a
dig-like output for packets received from upstream, so you can see
where the malicious data comes from.

Or just dig @8.8.8.8 from the commandline, that has the same routing
as the pfSense firewall box with unbound on it, and look at the result.

Unbound has DNSSEC capabilities that are meant to protect against
these sorts of things (only for DNSSEC signed domains of course).  You
can easily turn it on with unbound-anchor -a /etc/root.key and putting
auto-trust-anchor-file: "/etc/root.key" in unbound.conf.

Best regards,
   Wouter

> Example:
> 
> While "on":
> 
> $ host omx.ch <http://omx.ch> omx.ch <http://omx.ch> has address
> 195.22.26.248 omx.ch <http://omx.ch> mail is handled by 10
> mx1.csof.net <http://mx1.csof.net>. omx.ch <http://omx.ch> mail is
> handled by 10 mx2.csof.net <http://mx2.csof.net>.
> 
> Normally:
> 
> $host omx.ch <http://omx.ch> omx.ch <http://omx.ch> has address
> 62.48.3.132 omx.ch <http://omx.ch> mail is handled by 10
> mxhost1.omx.ch <http://mxhost1.omx.ch>
> 
> Other wrongly resolved ips lead to sso.mlwr.io
> <http://sso.mlwr.io> (which tries to redirect back to
> xsso.<correcthost.com <http://correcthost.com>>/<someidentifier>)
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> - Martin
> 
> 
> 
> 
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