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Date:  Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:35:08 +0000
From:  Gustavo Silva <pseudo (at mark) zbronx.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:16151] Re: ftp hacked
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <4B0146FC.5090302 (at mark) zbronx.com>
In-Reply-To:  <59B9F251EC04442D8990B9ECE58E05AD@TikKlikPC11>
References:  <C724D903.D7F0%colin (at mark) mainline.co.uk> <59B9F251EC04442D8990B9ECE58E05AD (at mark) TikKlikPC11>
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Hello Stefan,

Just to let you know one of our customers had like 10 sites on one of 
our servers, and all his sites were attacked by some 3rd party that only 
wanted to post malware on the Index files, and we traced it down to this:

http://www.bitdefender.com/VIRUS-1000383-en--Trojan.PWS.Tupai.A.html

The customer had this virus that affects IE running on his computer and 
the passwords were being stolen from his Filezilla app (virus also 
steals from a lot more different FTP clients and then it submits that 
info to a zombie distributed network that uses that data in order to 
connect to the target sites and perform some changes that will allow 
either direct or indirect manipulation of the site's contents).

The attacks were constant (like 1 access every 2 seconds) and from 
different IP's all the time.

We blocked the initial hammering, by only allowing FTP access to our 
national Internet providers IP ranges.

But we discovered that some infected PCs, part of that zombie 
distributed network, were also in our country, so a few logins would slip.

We found it very odd that only these customers sites were being attacked 
and that no matter we changed passwords it kept happening again.

Eventually we heard about the virus and we managed to get a removal tool 
for the customer and allas, that was it...



I hope this helps you out.. If its anything else, i would love to hear a 
reply If you manage to track it down.

Cheers!

Gustavo




Steffan escreveu:
> Hello,
>
> I have a cleint with sites on 3 different servers
> Now several sites ware hacked
> One person/ or script uploaden a .htaccess en random php file in every
> directory
>
> The client had random passwords
> His ftp program has 50 + ftp sites on it
> But the only sites that are heacked are sites on my servers
>
> It was normal ftp logins but could there be anything i can check on the
> servers to see if the problem is here ?
>
> Thanxs
>
> Steffan
>
>
>
>