Hostile probe recording

Mon Mar 2 05:16:22 UTC 2009

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On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Lou Katz <lou at metron.com> wrote:

> I happen to have some non-standard applications running on port 80
> on one of my machines. From time to time I get log messages noting
> improper syntax (for my app) of the form:
>
> 'GET /roundcube/CHANGELOG HTTP/1.1'                     200.19.191.98
> 'GET /mail/CHANGELOG HTTP/1.1'                          200.19.191.98
> 'GET /webmail/CHANGELOG HTTP/1.1'                       200.19.191.98
> 'GET /roundcubemail/CHANGELOG HTTP/1.1'                 200.19.191.98
> 'GET /rcmail/CHANGELOG HTTP/1.1'                        200.19.191.98
> 'GET //CHANGELOG HTTP/1.1'                              200.19.191.98
> 'GET /rc/CHANGELOG HTTP/1.1'                            200.19.191.98
> 'GET /email/CHANGELOG HTTP/1.1'                         200.19.191.98
> 'GET /mail2/CHANGELOG HTTP/1.1'                         200.19.191.98
> 'GET /Webmail/CHANGELOG HTTP/1.1'                       200.19.191.98
> 'GET /components/com_roundcube/CHANGELOG HTTP/1.1'      200.19.191.98
> 'GET /squirrelmail/CHANGELOG HTTP/1.1'                  200.19.191.98
> 'GET /vhcs2/tools/webmail/CHANGELOG HTTP/1.1'           200.19.191.98
> 'GET /round/CHANGELOG HTTP/1.1'                         200.19.191.98
>
> (200.19.191.98 is the IP address of the attacking machine, not me)
>
>
> Is this sort of information of use to anyone here?
> Is the above an old vulnerability - since I don't run
>  whatever it is probing for, I have not paid much attention to these.
>

Interesting.

It looks like someone probing for a RoundCube Webmail vulnerability:

http://www.h-online.com/security/RoundCube-vulnerability-allows-injection-o
f-arbitrary-scripting-code--/news/112330

The interesting thing about the source is that it appears to be originating
from a Brazilian High Performce Computing Facility:

AS      | IP               | AS Name
1916    | 200.19.191.98    | Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa

200.19.191.98 -PTR-> oros.cenapadne.br

See also:

http://cenapadne.br/

Maybe a compromised host? Who knows.

- - ferg

p.s. You can always toss these types of things over on the funsec mailing
list:

https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec

There folks over on funsec which can handle reports of this nature, and
actually engage the appropriate parties in Brazil...

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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