My firewall keeps reporting intrusion attempts described as "DCE endpoint resolution." What's going
My firewall keeps reporting intrusion attempts described as "DCE endpoint resolution." What's going on? The intrusion even seems to be coming from my own ISP on TCP port 135!
Port 135 is registered as "epmap - DCE endpoint resolution" and can be enumerated by connecting on port 135 and doing the appropriate queries. Mostly used by Microsoft for RPC locator service, it can be used to lookup what ports other services are running on Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) services on the remote host. An attacker may use this fact to gain more knowledge about the remote host. Trojans are a common example that exploits this vulnerability.
The solution: filter incoming traffic to this port. If possible, this port should NOT be opened except in certain circumstances where you are protected by another firewall (e.g. in a corporate DMZ situation).
