Re: [users@httpd] Please help... apache hacked?

[Dave Henderson]

Ricardo Kleemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Thanks Max.

> A first look shows that the script "bots.txt" currently available targets
> vulnerable installation of "Joomla" and "Mambo". There are some
> vulnerabilities reported for the included phpBB and an extension called
> perForms.

But how in the first place, is apache even downloading the bots.txt, and
then, running it? Is it running in-memory, since it's not anywhere in the
filesystem ?

And what commands can be run on port 80 to do the download/run of the
script?

>
> The bot seems to join a specific IRC-chan waiting for commands and looking
> for new vulnerable installations via google-searches.
>
> Perhaps you want to replace any wget-binaries with a shell script logging
> environment and command-line switches to identify the document used to
> retrieve the script.
>
>> PLEASE HELP...
>>
>
> You should stop your Apache! :D
>
> .max
>
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Just my two cents (which are probably wrong :) ), but have your checked any cron jobs that may be running?

Dave