Worm probes

Rafi Sadowsky rafi-nanog at meron.openu.ac.il
Tue Sep 18 19:33:35 UTC 2001



Hi David

 Why not use Labrea (developed originally to tarpit CodeRed) ?
<http://www.hackbusters.net/LaBrea/>

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	Rafi

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, David Ulevitch wrote:

>
> Hello Joseph,
>
> Tuesday, September 18, 2001, 11:51:43 AM, you wrote:
>
> JM> Yes. We are seeing it here bigtime.  Does anyone have any apache hacks
> JM> to lessen the impact?  One idea:  Once a probe is sent, the prober's
> JM> IP# is stored in a hash (perhaps in shared memory or a mmap'd file
> JM> that all children can share) and new connections from that IP are no
> JM> longer accepted.
>
> Here's a possibility but I need help with one aspect:
>
> A) create a rule in your apache httpd.conf like this:
>
> <Location /scripts/root.exe>
>     Deny from all
>     ErrorDocument 404 http://www.everydns.net/blockip.php
> </Location>
>
> B) create blockip.php (or use perl or whatever[read: python])
> <?
> $iptables = '/usr/local/sbin/iptables';
> $ip = $REMOTE_ADDR;
> $blockline = $iptables." -A INPUT -s ".$ip." -p all -j DROP;";
> system($blockline);
> ?>
>
> C) the caveat here is that you need to give the webuser (nobody)
> access to iptables.  This can be done in sudo like this:
> nobody    ALL=NOBODY: /usr/local/sbin/iptables
>
> The MAJOR problem is that you have now given your entire web site
> access to iptables.  If you have a machine which has no "users" then
> this may be okay for you however for most of us it is not.  Do any of
> you have a way to call a perl script directly from the httpd.conf
> entry and perhaps pass the REMOTE_ADDR to it?  I know there's a way
> and I'll look for it, but in the meantime -- any ideas?
>
>
> Thanks,
>  David Ulevitch                            mailto:davidu at everydns.net
>
>
>




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