has my 10.1-RELEASE system been compromised

Joseph Mingrone jrm at ftfl.ca
Wed Feb 25 20:05:03 UTC 2015


Jung-uk Kim <jkim at FreeBSD.org> writes:

> On 02/25/2015 14:41, Joseph Mingrone wrote:
>> This morning when I arrived at work I had this email from my 
>> university's IT department (via email.it) informing me that my host
>> was infected and spreading a worm.
>> 
>> "Based on the logs fingerprints seems that your server is infected
>> by the following worm: Net-Worm.PHP.Mongiko.a"
>> 
>> my ip here - - [23/Feb/2015:14:53:37 +0100] "POST 
>> /?cmd=info&key=f8184c819717b6815a8b8037e91c59ef&ip=212.97.34.7
>> HTTP/1.1" 200 429 "-" "Net- Worm.PHP.Mongiko.a"
>> 
>> Despite the surprising name, I don't see any evidence that it's
>> related to php.  I did remove php, because I don't really need it.
>> I've included my /etc/rc.conf below.  pkg audit doesn't show any 
>> vulnerabilities.  Searching for Worm.PHP.Mongiko doesn't show
>> much. I've run chkrootkit, netstat/sockstat and I don't see
>> anything suspicious and I plan to finally put some reasonable
>> firewall rules on this host.
>> 
>> Do you have any suggestions?  Should I include any other
>> information here?
> ...
>
> I found this:
>
> http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/82273/what-is-net-worm-php-mongiko-trying-to-do
>
> Jung-uk Kim

Yeah, I saw that as well.  I wouldn't be concerned if this was hitting
my web server, but the key difference here is that my IP is the
apparently the source in this case.

Joseph


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