Seeing some strange inbound traffic when using OpenVPN

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joel2020
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Seeing some strange inbound traffic when using OpenVPN

Post by joel2020 » Sat Mar 09, 2024 1:04 am

Hello. First post. Hope I'm in the right place.

I was recently looking at my ISP account and noticed they were alleging I was uploading 20GB on some days. I never upload much. So I installed Net limiter to monitor my traffic. Whilst watching I noticed something else strange, which has become more worrying than the 20GB upload.

I see an inbound connection from naj.sk to port 25360-, which I see in OpenVPN's config is used for a management port interface offset?
If I block naj.sk then I get what appears to be the same traffic from another domain. If I block that too, the same thing. Rinse and repeat.

naj.sk appears to be a Swiss women's fashion site. Definitely not a site I'd be using :)

This inbound traffic is a constant 6bps.

using netstat -ab or -ano I see port 25360 used by Thunderbird, or by Firefox, or by Potplayer and also openvpn.exe. There may be other programs, but that's all I've checked so far.

If I disconnect from the VPN this traffic stops. It's only when connected to the VPN that I see this traffic.

Should I be approaching my VPN provider or might this be somehow related to OpenVPN givem that 25360 is OPenVPNs management interface port offset.

naj.sk is in my hosts file, which I guess is why I'm seeing 127.0.0.1 as the local address?

I've tried 2.6.6 and 2.6.9.

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 Proto  Local Address          Foreign Address        State
  TCP    0.0.0.0:135            pipe:0                 LISTENING
  RpcEptMapper
 [svchost.exe]
  TCP    0.0.0.0:445            pipe:0                 LISTENING
 Can not obtain ownership information
  TCP    0.0.0.0:1024           pipe:0                 LISTENING
 Can not obtain ownership information
  TCP    0.0.0.0:5357           pipe:0                 LISTENING
 Can not obtain ownership information
  TCP    0.0.0.0:49664          pipe:0                 LISTENING
 [lsass.exe]
  TCP    0.0.0.0:49665          pipe:0                 LISTENING
 Can not obtain ownership information
  TCP    0.0.0.0:49666          pipe:0                 LISTENING
  EventLog
 [svchost.exe]
  TCP    0.0.0.0:49667          pipe:0                 LISTENING
  Schedule
 [svchost.exe]
  TCP    0.0.0.0:49668          pipe:0                 LISTENING
 [spoolsv.exe]
  TCP    10.8.2.6:139           pipe:0                 LISTENING
 Can not obtain ownership information
  TCP    10.8.2.6:1201          unn-84-17-38-228:https  TIME_WAIT
  TCP    10.8.2.6:1208          unn-84-17-38-228:https  TIME_WAIT
  TCP    10.8.2.6:1259          93:https               ESTABLISHED
 [firefox.exe]
  TCP    127.0.0.1:1025         www:1026               ESTABLISHED
 [thunderbird.exe]
  TCP    127.0.0.1:1026         www:1025               ESTABLISHED
 [thunderbird.exe]
  TCP    127.0.0.1:1058         www:25360              ESTABLISHED
 [openvpn-gui.exe]
  TCP    127.0.0.1:1070         www:1071               ESTABLISHED
 [firefox.exe]
  TCP    127.0.0.1:1071         www:1070               ESTABLISHED
 [firefox.exe]
  TCP    127.0.0.1:1072         www:1073               ESTABLISHED
 [firefox.exe]
  TCP    127.0.0.1:1073         www:1072               ESTABLISHED
 [firefox.exe]
  TCP    127.0.0.1:1074         www:1075               ESTABLISHED
 [firefox.exe]
  TCP    127.0.0.1:1075         www:1074               ESTABLISHED
 [firefox.exe]
  TCP    127.0.0.1:1076         www:1077               ESTABLISHED
 [firefox.exe]
  TCP    127.0.0.1:1077         www:1076               ESTABLISHED
 [firefox.exe]
  TCP    127.0.0.1:1084         www:1085               ESTABLISHED
 [firefox.exe]
  TCP    127.0.0.1:1085         www:1084               ESTABLISHED
 [firefox.exe]
  TCP    127.0.0.1:1267         www:https              SYN_SENT
 [PotPlayerMini64.exe]
  TCP    127.0.0.1:25360        pipe:0                 LISTENING
 [openvpn.exe]
  TCP    127.0.0.1:25360        www:1058               ESTABLISHED
 [openvpn.exe]
  TCP    127.0.0.1:52307        www:1258               TIME_WAIT
  TCP    192.168.1.2:139        pipe:0                 LISTENING
 Can not obtain ownership information
  TCP    192.168.1.2:1057       SERVER:microsoft-ds    ESTABLISHED
 Can not obtain ownership information
  TCP    192.168.1.2:1199       SERVER:http            TIME_WAIT
  TCP    192.168.1.2:1202       SERVER:http            TIME_WAIT
  TCP    192.168.1.2:1203       SERVER:http            TIME_WAIT
  TCP    192.168.1.2:1204       SERVER:microsoft-ds    ESTABLISHED
 Can not obtain ownership information
  TCP    [::]:135               Tanya-PC:0             LISTENING
  RpcEptMapper
 [svchost.exe]
  TCP    [::]:445               Tanya-PC:0             LISTENING
 Can not obtain ownership information
  TCP    [::]:1024              Tanya-PC:0             LISTENING
 Can not obtain ownership information
  TCP    [::]:5357              Tanya-PC:0             LISTENING
 Can not obtain ownership information
  TCP    [::]:49664             Tanya-PC:0             LISTENING
 [lsass.exe]
  TCP    [::]:49665             Tanya-PC:0             LISTENING
 Can not obtain ownership information
  TCP    [::]:49666             Tanya-PC:0             LISTENING
  EventLog
 [svchost.exe]
  TCP    [::]:49667             Tanya-PC:0             LISTENING
  Schedule
 [svchost.exe]
  TCP    [::]:49668             Tanya-PC:0             LISTENING
 [spoolsv.exe]
  UDP    0.0.0.0:3702           *:*
  FDResPub
 [svchost.exe]
  UDP    0.0.0.0:3702           *:*
  FDResPub
 [svchost.exe]
  UDP    0.0.0.0:5353           *:*
  Dnscache
 [svchost.exe]
  UDP    0.0.0.0:49664          *:*
  FDResPub
 [svchost.exe]
  UDP    0.0.0.0:53020          *:*
 [openvpn.exe]
  UDP    10.8.2.6:137           *:*
 Can not obtain ownership information
  UDP    10.8.2.6:138           *:*
 Can not obtain ownership information
  UDP    192.168.1.2:137        *:*
 Can not obtain ownership information
  UDP    192.168.1.2:138        *:*
 Can not obtain ownership information
  UDP    [::]:3702              *:*
  FDResPub
 [svchost.exe]
  UDP    [::]:3702              *:*
  FDResPub
 [svchost.exe]
  UDP    [::]:49665             *:*
  FDResPub
 [svchost.exe]
 
Would appreciate your thoughts on the matter.

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