Re: scans for root.exe

[Jacek Lipkowski <sq5bpf () acid ch pw edu pl>]

On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, David Pick wrote:

> These are attempts to use the "backdoor" left behind by the third
> main variant of the CodeRed worm. What command are they trying to
> execute? (should be passed as parameters to the query) or are they
> just looking to see if it's there at all?

don't assume root.exe is code red specific, i've seen cmd.exe copied to
the scripts directory named root.exe in one box that was probably hacked
using the double-unicode-decode bug (or whatever it's called). this was a
few months ago.

root.exe just seems to be a popular name...

jacek



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