RE: MS IIS 5 server is hacked leaving undeletable folders and files

From: Optrics Engineering - Shaun Sturby, MCSE (Shaun@Optrics.com)
Date: 12/31/02

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    From: "Optrics Engineering - Shaun Sturby, MCSE" <Shaun@Optrics.com>
    To: "'Don Phillipe'" <donphillipe@hotmail.com>, <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
    Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 15:01:07 -0700
    
    

    Hello Don,

    Typical hacker trick. They have used reserved words like com3 and lpt2 to create
    directories that the command interpreter and file manager won't touch because it
    thinks they are really hardware devices and you can't really delete hardware
    with a command. If you don't have the 'security tab' then check to see if your
    drive is formatted fat32. You will only see the 'security' tab if the drive is
    formatted NTFS or supports security.

    Here are a couple of links to get you started.

    How to Remove Files with Reserved Names in Windows XP
    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;315226&

    How to Remove Files with Reserved Names in Windows
    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;120716

    Do be careful and try your command lines out with a 'dir' command first to see
    that what is going to be deleted is what you really want deleted.

    Shaun

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Don Phillipe [mailto:donphillipe@hotmail.com]
    Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 9:55 AM
    To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
    Subject: MS IIS 5 server is hacked leaving undeletable folders and files

    I have a small server I use for my home business and use it mainly for
    anyone who needs to send a large file that will not go through email. I
    have an anonymous UPLOAD FTP account that I open up to receive these. From
    time to time I forget and leave this open (I know this is stupid but I
    thought I could just erase anything that was put there because the small
    drive would fill up real soon). However, I see someone has hacked into my
    server and put a bunch of trash that I cannot delete because when I try to
    delete it, Windows 2K says "cannot find the specified file". I have spent
    2 days researching this and cannot find any reference of how to correct
    this. I did find some reference to looking at the security tab for these
    files but the security tab is missing! I found some tools which are
    supposed to set owners for files and they don't work on these files. Here
    is the log from where the hacker attacked below. Any help would be
    appreciated. I don't want to have to rebuild my server if possible:

    #Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0

    #Version: 1.0

    #Date: 2002-12-30 06:38:21

    #Fields: time c-ip cs-method cs-uri-stem sc-status

    06:38:21 80.11.214.63 [1]USER anonymous 331

    06:38:21 80.11.214.63 [1]PASS anonymous@on.the.net 230

    06:38:24 80.11.214.63 [1]sent
    /upload/com3+/lpt2+/com3+/d/%15%20%d%D_FCT+/f/.GR+/h/aux+/j/%15%20%+by+Lorg%
    d%D+/divx/rpc-acb.043 550

    06:54:31 80.11.214.63 [1]created rpc-acb.043 226

    06:54:32 80.11.214.63 [1]sent
    /upload/com3+/lpt2+/com3+/d/%15%20%d%D_FCT+/f/.GR+/h/aux+/j/%15%20%+by+Lorg%
    d%D+/divx/rpc-acb.044 550

    07:10:38 80.11.214.63 [1]created rpc-acb.044 226
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