No, no they didn’t. At least not from what my investigation finds. Just wanted to put out there another example of a False Positive in the DHS/US-CERT JAR that I talk about in this article, Grizzly Steppe: Lighting up Like A Christmas Tree
IP address: 66.196.116.112
NSLookup output:
$ nslookup 66.196.116.112
Server: 192.168.1.1
Address: 192.168.1.1#53Non-authoritative answer:
112.116.196.66.in-addr.arpa name = pr.comet.vip.bf1.yahoo.com.
WHOIS output can be found here: Inktomi whois
Inktomi was aquired by Yahoo back in 2002.
Now, this 66.196.116.112 IP address is resolved via: comet.yahoo[.]com
This looks to be a service utilized by Yahoo mail.
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