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Re: Sanity worm defaces websites using php bug

From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 23:50:30 +0200


Dan Hollis wrote:

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:

These people don't waste much time when a new exploit
found, do they? Geez.
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2004-12-21

Its exploiting a bug in old versions of phpbb, it's not using the recentphp exploit.


-Dan

It isn't very blatant about it either. I allow myself to quote *only*the following from the source to help you make sure it is the actualworm that got you or your users.


It is written in perl.

Size: 4.87 KB (4,996 bytes).

MD5: 4ad08373aaa7c96ad8ab4b93df4fd4a0

Safe source (HTML generation only) sample:

....
    my $s = q{<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>This site is defaced!!!</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY bgcolor="#000000" text="#FF0000">
<H1>This site is defaced!!!</H1>
<HR>
....

        Gadi.

Current thread:

Sanity worm defaces websites using php bug Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Dec 21)
- Re: Sanity worm defaces websites using php bug Dan Hollis (Dec 21)
  - Re: Sanity worm defaces websites using php bug cw (Dec 21)
    - Re: Sanity worm defaces websites using php bug Dave Dennis (Dec 21)
    - Re: Sanity worm defaces websites using php bug Gadi Evron (Dec 21)
    - Re: Sanity worm defaces websites using php bug Paul G (Dec 21)
  - Re: Sanity worm defaces websites using php bug Gadi Evron (Dec 21)
- Re: Sanity worm defaces websites using php bug Gadi Evron (Dec 22)
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