Strange connection

[Tomas Larsson]

Interesting reading, to late now for any investigetions though.

The server is down at the moment, will remove the NW-cable tomorrow an
reboot and start to look into it.

With best regards

Tomas Larsson
Sweden

Verus Amicus Est Tamquam Alter Idem

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Gabe Warren
> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 2:16 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Cc: users at httpd.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Strange connection
> 
> 
> Tomas Larsson wrote:
> 
> >Doing a netstat on my server, I find a strange connection.
> >
> >It's a crond-job with Apache as owner, and it seems to go to an 
> >irc-server, called 193.110.95.1:ircd, "carouge.ch.eu.undernet.org", 
> >anyone that knows what this is??
> >  
> >
> Do you have awstats installed?  Check and see if you have any hidden 
> directories in /tmp.  There is an awstats exploit that allows 
> uploads as 
> the apache user.  I found a process running as apache called 
> init.d on 
> one of my servers.  It too was initiaiting connections out to 
> IRC.  The 
> EnergyMech irc bot was uploaded and executed from the 
> /tmp/.bin directory.
> 
> This person has explained in detail his experience.
> 
> http://www.angelar.com/~jeremy/computer/hacked.html
> 
> Maybe this is what happened to you.
> 
> gabe
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