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Date:  Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:51:23 -0700
From:  "Ken Marcus - Precision Web Hosting, Inc" <kenlists (at mark) precisionweb.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:16046] Re: Phishing Scams
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
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In-Reply-To:  <C6D78490.16305%webmaster (at mark) muntada.com>
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Abdul Rashid Abdullah" <webmaster (at mark) muntada.com>
To: "coba-e (at mark) bluequartz. org" <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 3:15 AM
Subject: [coba-e:16044] Re: Phishing Scams


> Root owned the files.  I have changed the root password.  It was a 15
> character, 2 Upper, 2 Lower, 2 Special, 2 Number minimum password randomly
> generated.
>
>
> On 9/16/09 1:31 PM, "Michael Stauber" <bq (at mark) solarspeed.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi Rashid,
>>
>>> Any ideas of what I could do to track this down?  The first time I 
>>> chocked
>>> it up to the fact that there some old CGI scripts on the site (Matt 
>>> Wright,
>>> Selena Sol stuff).  The second time now I am concerned because the site
>>> only had php stuff on it.  The only kind of CGI running is the 
>>> OpenWebMail.
>>>  Not sure if there is an exploit there but I couldn't readily see 
>>> anything.
>>
>> Which user owned the phishing files? If it was user "apache" it could 
>> have
>> been that these files came aboard through a vulnerable PHP script.
>>
>> If the files were owned by a user account, then it may be likely that 
>> they
>> were uploaded through FTP through a compromised user account (weak 
>> password
>> that has been guessed).
>


Abdul

If root owned the files then you might need to cmu export, wipe the server, 
then re-import to a fresh server.


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