Into.the.Void.

For those who read my previous post, “Epic fail from a hosting company involving bad customer support and a critical security issue”
During the week some manager of the hosting company contacted the guy renting the servers and offered a free RAM upgrade for one server and a 60% monthly discount for 2 of the servers.

Not bad at all regarding the owner of the servers, but still I have many security related concerns about the hosting company

Filed by kargig at 23:55 under Linux
Tags: hosting, Linux, security
2 Comments | 7,103 views

That’s why I love ossec:

OSSEC HIDS Notification.
2009 Oct 06 17:45:17

Received From: XXXX->rootcheck
Rule: 510 fired (level 7) -> "Host-based anomaly detection event (rootcheck)."
Portion of the log(s):

Rootkit 'Suspicious' detected by the presence of file '/var/www/vhosts/YYYY.com/httpdocs/album_mod/..  /.../.log'.

 --END OF NOTIFICATION

OSSEC HIDS Notification.
2009 Oct 06 17:45:17

Received From: XXXX->rootcheck
Rule: 510 fired (level 7) -> "Host-based anomaly detection event (rootcheck)."
Portion of the log(s):

Rootkit 'Suspicious' detected by the presence of file '/var/www/vhosts/YYYY.com/httpdocs/language/lang_english/     /... /.log'.

 --END OF NOTIFICATION

OSSEC HIDS Notification.
2009 Oct 06 17:45:17

Received From: XXXX->rootcheck
Rule: 510 fired (level 7) -> "Host-based anomaly detection event (rootcheck)."
Portion of the log(s):

Rootkit 'Suspicious' detected by the presence of file '/var/www/vhosts/YYYY.com/httpdocs/language/     /... /.log'.

 --END OF NOTIFICATION

Just found this by copying some files for a client from his previous hosting company to one of the hosting servers of a company I work for.

There were actually 2 different sets of files.
The first one contained a tool that “hides” a process, called: “XH (XHide) process faker”, and the second one contained an iroffer executable.

Files:
i)xh-files.tar.gz
Listing:
.log/
.log/.crond/
.log/.crond/xh
.log/week~
.log/week

ii)iroffer-files.tar.gz
Listing:
.--/
.--/imd.pid
.--/imd.state.tmp
.--/imd.state
.--/linux

Mind the . (dot) of the directories containing the files.

Filed by kargig at 22:01 under Linux
Tags: iroffer, Linux, ossec, process hider, rootkit, security, vulnerability
2 Comments | 10,138 views

To cut the story as short as possible let’s say that someone rents some dedicated servers somewhere in a big hosting company. I occasionally do some administrative tasks for him.
A server stopped responding and was unbootable on October 1st, one disk had crashed, then the hosting company did a huge mistake, I notified them about it and then they did another even bigger mistake (security issue) on the next day, October 2nd. I re-notified them about it…
So you can either read the whole story or if you are only interested on the security issue, skip the first day and go straight to October 2nd.

Some details, the server had 2 disks, sda with the OS (Debian 4.0) with Plesk control panel and sdb which had some backup files.

October 1st 2009:
10:10 I got a telephone call to help on that server because it looked dead and it couldn’t even be rebooted from the hosting’s company control panel.
10:15 I contacted the company’s support by email and notified them of the problem.
(more…)

Filed by kargig at 13:29 under Linux
Tags: compromise, customer support, debian, fail, hard disk, Linux, lsattr, password, plesk, rootkit, security, shv4, shv5, trojan, ttyload, ttymon, vulnerability
6 Comments | 20,478 views