Re: More /sumthin

From: Philipp Hug (securityfocusat_private)
Date: Wed Feb 26 2003 - 06:23:17 PST

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    I found the root of all evil ;-)
    
    the /sumthin tool is attached. I got it from an "owned" server.
    
    Philipp
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Sverre H. Huseby" <shhat_private>
    To: <incidentsat_private>
    Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 9:52 AM
    Subject: More /sumthin, maybe
    
    
    > I got a couple of E-mails from a guy that _may_ have more info on the
    > /sumthin case.  One of his servers was "owned", and he _thinks_ the
    > /sumthin request was the start of the attack.  His E-mails follow:
    >
    >     ==================================================================
    >
    >     I got hit with the same thing.  /sumthin is exactly what everyone
    >     thinks it is - a probe.  Someone used my version info to exploit a
    >     bug in SSL.  I still don't know what the bugs are yet, but it's
    >     really evident.  From there, he looged in as my webserver, and
    >     totally F$%^&D my server.  He set up some kind of irc server, and
    >     compromised so much of my server I'm having to rebuild from the
    >     ground up.  He redirected the root .bash_history to /dev/nul and
    >     redirected the mail logs and he set up an account called tcp so he
    >     could log in through ssh.  Most of the services were shut down
    >     (that's how I figured something was up - I couldn't get my mail).
    >
    >     even though he did wipe the root history, he forgot to wipe
    >     wwwrun's history, it's too long to post, but it will be up for a
    >     short while at http://XXX [Sverre sais: URL removed.  log file
    >     attached.]
    >
    >     He also replaced bash and set the default runlevel to halt, so
    >     when I restarted the system just stopped (what a pisser).
    >
    >     When I went back and grepped all the logs, the /sumthin only shows
    >     up in the logs of one domain (despite the fact we host around [N])
    >     and starts sometime around mid October as everyone else has
    >     noticed.
    >
    >     ==================================================================
    >
    >     I found things like this in /tmp and /var/tmp:
    >
    >     drwxr-xr-x   3 wwwrun   nogroup       153 Jan 26 04:10 a
    >     -rw-r--r--   1 wwwrun   nogroup     14138 Jan  4 20:32 a.tgz
    >     -rw-r--r--   1 wwwrun   nogroup     14138 Jan  4 20:32 a.tgz.1
    >     -rw-r--r--   1 wwwrun   nogroup     14138 Jan  4 20:32 a.tgz.2
    >     -rwxr-xr-x   1 wwwrun   nogroup     19577 Nov 28 15:55 alarmd
    >     drwxr-xr-x   5 wwwrun   nogroup       635 Dec 22 17:00 orbit-root
    >     drwxr-xr-x   9 wwwrun   nogroup       553 Jan 12 09:52 psybnc
    >     -rw-r--r--   1 wwwrun   nogroup    596571 Oct 17 23:19 psybnc.tar.gz
    >
    >     after that I did a find / -user wwwrun and found a bunch of stuff
    >     and then discovered several other uids involved.
    >
    >     ==================================================================
    >
    > The attached shell history file shows what appears to be a manual
    > attacker downloading and installing several files using wget.  Some of
    > the files are no longer available, but the few I managed to download
    > seem to be either related to IRC (server and bot), or to Linux local
    > exploits.  (I only spent a couple of minutes downloading and glancing
    > at the files.)
    >
    >
    > Sverre.
    >
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