Re: How to determine which PHP-script allows spamming?

[Andre Yelistratov <andre () sundale net>]

I would write simple perl wrapper around /usr/sbin/sendmail. It should 
distinguish between calling scripts and count speed of calls. If the 
script overwhelms certain threshold - put the letter at some spool for 
further analysis.

Rainer Duffner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a big problem. Some customer probably got installed a PHP-script 
> that allows to send-out mails with no trace to the original domain it 
> belongs to (we had this before, were pollvote.php was used to install 
> some kind of web-shell - but it was easily detectable which domain it was).
>
> The problem is that I have close to 10000 domains  on my cluster.
> I tried to correlate httpd-logs with the maillogs, but it didn't lead to 
> anything useful.
> I'm currently grep'ing the whole content for some of the email-addresses 
> used, but I'm pessimistic - it may be that the spammer loads even that 
> list from remote - and it takes a lot of time to grep 400 GB.
>
>
> What options do I have?
> Can Snort detect this?
>
> (The webserver uses qmail as MTA)
>
>
>
> cheers,
> Rainer