RE: 'FrogEater'

From: Gavin Reid (gavreidat_private)
Date: Wed Apr 25 2001 - 09:29:36 PDT

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    Its not a tool but rather a few test files that the "warez dude"
    uploaded probably from various location to test the connectivity between
    your FTP and others. 
    
    
    Gavin Reid
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Incidents Mailing List 
    > [mailto:INCIDENTSat_private] On Behalf Of James W. Abendschan
    > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 1:00 PM
    > To: INCIDENTSat_private
    > Subject: 'FrogEater'
    > 
    > 
    > This is not a security incident as much as it's fingerprints 
    > of warez d00d activity, but I was curious if anyone else has 
    > seen this tool.
    > 
    > I found the following directories in the FTP root of an NT box:
    > 
    > 03-31-01  01:05AM       <DIR>
    > 04-08-01  12:34PM       <DIR>          .tmp
    > 
    > 03-31-01  12:33AM       <DIR>             .FrogEater
    > 03-26-01  05:16AM              1000000 1 Mo
    > 01-02-01  12:05AM              1000000 1.mb.zip
    > 03-30-01  10:26PM              1000000 1000k
    > 03-30-01  11:22PM              1000000 1MB.Test
    > 03-26-01  05:17AM       <DIR>          FrogEater
    > 04-08-01  12:34PM       <DIR>          TAGGED FrogE
    > 
    > This looks much like the result of an automated tool that 
    > checks for anonymous / world-writable FTP directories.  I 
    > assume the 1000000 byte files are attempts to figure out the 
    > link speed and / or
    > disk quotas .. ?  The '.tmp' directory is actually named '.tmp      '.
    > 
    > A google search only turned up one useful link, which is in 
    > turn a link to another "frogeaten" site.
    > 
     
    http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:kotisivu.raketti.net/jari77v/index4
    .htm+frogeater&hl=en
    
    James
    



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