No matter how well a web server is configured, it is useless if it’s not properly secured. It’s a famous saying, ‘a chain is as strong as its weakest link’. As a system admin you have to address all vulnerabilities of your server. Since one single untreated vulnerability will be exploited by an attacker and … Read more
This again new malware which we call cryptonight, what we haven’t seen before. It’s downloads executable Linux program and hides that http daemon in background, which is difficult find process list at first glance. Manual remove process You can search if there running process httpd, which start cryptonight parameter: ps aux | grep cryptonight Then … Read more
Here in this tutorial we are talking about the basics of the steps required when securing Web server. Hacking is regularly performed by automated scripts written to scour the Internet in an attempt to exploit known website security issues in software. Here are 8 basic tips to help keep your server safe secure and online. … Read more
New web shell (PHOENIX SHELL), what we have not seen this this before. This is typical webshell, except there are a lot of extra features: Upload Command Execute Mass Deface cPanel crack CGI Telnet WordPress auto Deface Fake root Etc … In the action Final words Use Malware Expert – Signatures detect this Web shell … Read more
If your business has a website, you may be familiar with the mod_security module for Apache Web servers. ModSecurity is a firewall module for Apache servers that blocks malicious programs, scripts and injections, helping to keep your website more secure. Occasionally, you might need to bypass the module filters to accommodate a testing environment or … Read more
ModSecurity is an open source, cross-platform web application firewall (WAF) that can be deployed to secure web servers like apache, IIS and Nginx. Modsecurity works on powerful language of rules and its API allows monitoring of HTTP(S) that is coming in and out of your web server, to keep your web applications up and running … Read more
Today we found Java based malware. If attacker found File Upload vulnerability on the server, then it upload manual.php based malware, which trying load load_all.jar to server and running it background. Manual.php $out = shell_exec(“java -version 2>&1”); preg_match(“/version\s+\”1\.(\d+)\./”,$out,$matches); $ver = 0; if($matches)$ver = (int)$matches[1]; This manual.php uses lot off shell_exec function, but if you have … Read more
A web shell or backdoor shell is a script written in the supported language of a target web server to be uploaded to enable remote access and administration of the machine. Shells are able to infect servers that may not necessary be internet-facing, servers for hosting of internal resources are also subject to web shell … Read more