Re: New awstats.pl vulnerability?

[james () zero-internet org uk]

> From analysis on compromised sites I've been receiving abuse messages for at $day_job they're launched from irc bots 
> on compromised servers, mainly cpanel- cpanel is cool for novices but skimps on security out of the box.

Will dig out some signatures when I get into the office.

Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

-----Original Message-----
From: Lamar Spells <lamar.spells () gmail com>
Sender: full-disclosure-bounces () lists grok org uk
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:23:11 
To: Nikolay Kichukov<hijacker () oldum net>
Cc: <full-disclosure () lists grok org uk>
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] New awstats.pl vulnerability?

Here is an update on this:

Over the past week, we have seen the awstats activity continue, but
morph to include other vulnerabilities.  Details of this are at
http://foxtrot7security.blogspot.com/2011/12/attacks-against-awstats-also-includes.html
-- but the summary is that we have seen activity change to include
Local File Inclusion and command injection in phpAlbum and other
components written in PHP.

We started seeing today some activity related to phpthumb and
CVE-2010-1598...  Details of this are at
http://foxtrot7security.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-attempts-to-exploit-old-phpthumb.html

I am really curious as to the motivation of the parties deploying
these types of scans.  I understand that they would like to find
vulnerable systems to compromise... but for what purpose?  Sending
spam?  So far, based on what I am seeing, it looks like they are
compromising systems just to have those systems look for more systems
to compromise.  At this point, I have to assume that they are still in
the construction and building phase...

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Lamar Spells <lamar.spells () gmail com> wrote:
> Here are some additional IPs and some analysis of the IPs in question.
>  Looks like very few of the scanning IPs are running awstats, but many
> are legitimate business running old apache versions.  I am guessing
> they didn't self install an awstats scanner...
>
> http://foxtrot7security.blogspot.com/2011/12/importance-of-patching.html
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Lamar Spells <lamar.spells () gmail com> wrote:
> > Today we are also seeing requests like this one which is looking to
> > exploit CVE-2008-3922:
> >
> > GET /awstatstotals/awstatstotals.php ?
> > sort={${passthru(chr(105).chr(100))}}{${exit()}}
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:17 AM, Nikolay Kichukov <hijacker () oldum net> wrote:
> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > > Hash: SHA1
> > >
> > > Same here, I even tried to notify a bunch of the ISP registrators of the IP address range those originated from.
> > >
> > > - -Nik
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 12/13/2011 07:30 AM, Bruce Ediger wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, Lamar Spells wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > For the past several days, I have been seeing thousands of requests
> > > > > looking for awstats.pl like this one:
> > > >
> > > > Yeah, me too.  They just started up.  I haven't seen any awstats.pl
> > > > requests since 2010-05-18, and now I've gotten batches of them, since
> > > > about 2011-11-22, but heavier since the start of December.
> > > >
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