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AkamaiGhost

From: "Jeremy Junginger" <jj () act com>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 11:40:29 -0700

I have recently stumbled across a webserver that I have not seen very much in
the past, and would like to get some input on the architecture of the
application if any of you have seen it during your penetration testing (feel
free to include archived pen-test/vuln-dev links) .  

The webserver is AkamaiGHost, which, I think stands for Akamai Global Host.
As I understand it, the server is an "internally developed" application that
is designed to serve as a "geographically co-located caching server" for your
website. Basically, they mirror your site on a server at different ISP/POPs
to deliver the content faster from a closer location.  

The host is certainly a Linux machine, as far as IP stack fingerprinting
goes, but ONLY port 80 permitted to the host (at least only TCP port 80, I
have not yet run a UDP scan on the machine)...so it begins... :)

At any rate, I would like to know if any of you have conducted pen-tests
against such a host, and your experiences if you have.  Thanks, and have a
great day.

Oops, almost forgot, the nessus and amap scans were inconclusive (other than
"HTTP is open"), and here is some HTML output from a few requests...nothing
too great...just 400 responses :)

HEAD / HTTP/1.0 yields the following:

HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request
Server: AkamaiGHost
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 132
...
Connection: close


GET /stuff /HTTP/1.0 gets the following response:

HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request
Server: AkamaiGHost
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 136
...
Connection: close

<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>Invalid URL</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Invalid URL</H1>
The requested URL "&#47;stuff", is invalid.<p>
</BODY></HTML>

Thoughts?

-Jeremy




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