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RE: strange http get requests in apache access logs
From: Christine Kronberg <seeker () shalla de>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:39:32 +0200 (CEST)
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Henry Troup wrote:
On 10/13/06, rowland onobrauche <rowland.onobrauche () legendplc com Im getting logs such as"GET http://www.escorts-etc.com/cgi-bin/ftop100/rankem.cgi?id=gagvault HTTP/1.0" 200 147 " http://www.gagvault.com/linkspage.html" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"In some of my httpd access logs, even though this type of site is not existant on the server. Anyone seen this before??Some mis-configured Apache servers will act as an open proxy; that appears to be what this request is. Given that it's logged as a 200 OK, I'd say that you have that!
Careful. The "200" is an indicator, but nothing more. My servers answer the same way, but without acting as proxy. What they deliver is the top index.html. For any such attempt. And the servers are not specially tweaked. @orginal poster: What is the size of your top default page?
Since it looks like a hit counter - "rankem.cgi" - someone is using your bandwidth to pad their click rates.
Might be. Although that rankem.cgi page was not there when the orginal mail came over incidents. It is available now, though. Another explanation might be that it is an attempt of referrer spamming - given the content of the site.
Better check your configurations!
Better check the answers of the server first. ;-) Cheers, Christine Kronberg. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This List Sponsored by: Black HatAttend the Black Hat Briefings & Training USA, July 29-August 3 in Las Vegas. World renowned security experts reveal tomorrow's threats today. Free of vendor pitches, the Briefings are designed to be pragmatic regardless of your security environment. Featuring 36 hands-on training courses and 10 conference tracks, networking opportunities with over 2,500 delegates from 40+ nations.
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