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Any one get IPS alert "MALWARE-OTHER Windows Management Instrumentation manipulation attempt" ?

We have been getting these email alerts to our network team from our main Sophos UTM since Tuesday morning. 

  

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Message........: MALWARE-OTHER Windows Management Instrumentation manipulation attempt

Details........: https://www.snort.org/search?query=49570

Packet dropped.: yes

Classification.: A Network Trojan was Detected IP protocol....: 6 (TCP)

Source IP address: <SophosEndpointProtection-IP> Source port: 80 (http) Destination IP address: <Sophos-UTM-IP>  Destination port: 64218

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HA Status          : HA MASTER (node id: 2)

System Uptime      : 0 days 0 hours 18 minutes

System Load        : 4.05

System Version     : Sophos UTM 9.604-2

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(2) The IPS log shows following summary

@12:18:34 action="drop" reason="MALWARE-OTHER Windows Management Instrumentation manipulation attempt" srcip="23.32.80.135" srcport="80" sid="49570" class="A Network Trojan was Detected"

@12:19:04 action="drop" reason="MALWARE-OTHER Windows Management Instrumentation manipulation attempt" srcip="23.76.197.134" srcport="80" sid="49570" class="A Network Trojan was Detected"

@12:19:35 action="drop" reason="MALWARE-OTHER Windows Management Instrumentation manipulation attempt" srcip="184.25.98.243" srcport="80" sid="49570" class="A Network Trojan was Detected"

 

(3) Since it is outbound on port 80, our 'WebProtection' shows this following sample summary...

12:19:04 method="GET" dstip="23.76.197.134" statuscode="200" cached="0" url="d1.sophosupd.com/.../1ab6fc7acbfce20ac8782ae88318a252x000.dat"

12:19:34 method="GET" dstip="23.32.80.135"  statuscode="200" cached="0"  url="http://d1.sophosupd.com/update/1ab6fc7acbfce20ac8782ae88318a252x000.dat"

12:20:04 method="GET" dstip="184.25.98.243" statuscode="200" cached="1" url="http://dci.sophosupd.com/update/3/25/325420ec2b9d8646efcfea111f80f01f.dat"

 

(4) The IPS log does not shows any detailed other that the SNORT# 49570 .   Googling around found this link...

https://snort.org/rule_docs/1-49570

 

 

Any suggestions?   We are getting 30-40 email alerts every hour.

 

Thanks,

Bob Gausman



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