Interesting Pattern in Storm Worm

Interesting Pattern in Storm Worm

Plotted above is the used Portrange of a Storm Worm Spambot with private IP. Interesting that it (almost) stops at about Port Number 33.789, very sparse above that... Verified with multiple binaries and by the analysis of a so-called Storm Gateway (supernode) with public IP, here as well sparse data above the mentioned port, while ports between 50000 and 51000 seem to be very dense again. More information and plots on
http://honeyblog.org/archives/196-Interesting-Pattern-in-Storm-Worm-Traffic.html

For these plots, I analyzed the binaries in NetFlow data, converted it to CSV Files and did some data mining on these files with the commercial tool 'SPSS Clementine'