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Message-ID: <1103650458.5021.72.camel@visse.cbn>
From: ppatters at cbnco.com (Pamela Patterson)
Subject: Possible apache2/php 4.3.9 worm

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 10:32, Alex Schultz wrote:
> Some of the sites I administer were alledgedly hit by a worm last night.
> It overwrote all .php/.html files that were owner writable and owned by
> apache.  The worm put the following html in place of what was there:
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> 
>  <HTML>
>  <HEAD> 
>  <TITLE>This site is defaced!!!</TITLE> 
>  </HEAD>
> <BODY bgcolor="#000000" text="#FF0000"> 
> <H1>This site is defaced!!!</H1> 
> <HR> 
> <ADDRESS><b>NeverEverNoSanity WebWorm generation 17.</b></ADDRESS> 
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
> 
> We were running apache 2.0.52 and php 4.3.9. Have any of you encounted
> this before?  Also is there anything I should be aware of such as a
> possible binary that may have been dropped?  Could this have been
> accomplised by the upload path traversal vulnerability?  Google returns
> nothing.

It seems to be a worm exploiting a recent hole in PhPBB.

http://groups.google.ca/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&threadm=nrWdna_Pae7yNlrcRVn-gw%40comcast.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26selm%3DnrWdna_Pae7yNlrcRVn-gw%2540comcast.com

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Pamela Patterson, B.Eng, GCFA
Senior Systems Administrator
Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited
http://www.cbnco.com
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