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#177836 15-Aug-2015 18:18

I have a mynetfone number (Melbourne) configured as a second line on my Fritz!Box (with Snap). This is the default outgoing number - so we can have free calls to in-laws living in Melbourne and they can have local calls to us.

I noticed in my invoice this month three calls to Somalia (total $19) but the Fritz!Box call log doesn't show any activities on those dates.

I see the Fritz!Box has inbound port 5060 open. I have asked mynetfone to change our SIP password on the chance it could have been a brute force attempt or something else (a leak?)

Ideas?

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#1367090 15-Aug-2015 18:24

Is mynetfone able to provide a report of the IP addresses that your account has registered from, or the source IPs of these particular calls?

Knowing that would assist you in deciding to focus on further local investigations (if it did come from your local Snap IP) or whether to simply focus on your account security (ie if the calls were from IP space far far away).

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#1367225 15-Aug-2015 22:57

Haven't followed it because I don't have a Fritz but I suspect this will help:

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2433387

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#1367231 15-Aug-2015 23:20

Fritz do an 'internal' port forward of 5060 to the gateway. I have always disabled it by editing the config file but it's all a bit of a screw around for most punters to muck around with. Probably one of the reasons WxC never picked them up as their certified hardware.

Was the password quite basic? Even if there was a brute force attack, with a decent password you should notice the traffic increase (although in reality i guess it would be relatively minimal) before they break the password.

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#1367243 16-Aug-2015 00:14

The Fritz is not accessible from outside my LAN. Sbiddle tested some calls through it but couldn't get anything past. When I mentioned "brute force" I didn't mean against the Fritz but against the mynetfone SIP server itself.

Alternatively, because there are only three calls listed on my mynetfone account I could even raise a billing problem - mynetfone put these three calls on my account but they didn't originate from my device as there are no records of activity on the day listed.

Worst case I can just close my account with mynetfone and that's it.

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#1367270 16-Aug-2015 09:14

might be a long shot - some phone companies include sms and minutes to australia. and i believe Virgin (and Vodafone and maybe Optus) allows generous month "credits" to be used for international calls and sms

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#1367289 16-Aug-2015 09:20

Sorry, what's the relation to outgoing calls to Somalia?

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#1367291 16-Aug-2015 09:21

freitasm: The Fritz is not accessible from outside my LAN. Sbiddle tested some calls through it but couldn't get anything past. When I mentioned "brute force" I didn't mean against the Fritz but against the mynetfone SIP server itself.

Alternatively, because there are only three calls listed on my mynetfone account I could even raise a billing problem - mynetfone put these three calls on my account but they didn't originate from my device as there are no records of activity on the day listed.

Worst case I can just close my account with mynetfone and that's it.

Your Fritz!box SIP proxy is visible on port 5060 on your public IP, but a few very quick tests of trying to route calls via this failed.

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#1367295 16-Aug-2015 09:35

Thanks - and from what I read you can't really close that port. As I said, nothing showing in the logs...

Let's see what mynetfone support says about where the calls came from and if nothing then I will just close that account.

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#1367299 16-Aug-2015 09:43

freitasm: Sorry, what's the relation to outgoing calls to Somalia?

If you closed your account with mynetfone this could be an alternative way of communicating with the in-laws If both parties have the right mobile service in their respective countries?

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#1367313 16-Aug-2015 09:55

Oh, I see. It is convenient but worst case scenario just use Skype to call their landlines.

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#1367932 17-Aug-2015 14:28

Not sure yet how these calls happened but they have now put an international block on my line - which is ok since we only use it inside Australia.

Still interested to know if there is a flaw somewhere on these Fritz - sbiddle couldn't place a call from outside but not say someone knows of a vulnerability and used it.

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