Posts Tagged ‘hack’

Protect Against Shell Script Hacks

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

While browsing through Technorati, I just stumbled on a post about a shell script attack. It seems the poor chap got a shell script uploaded to his server, and the attacker used it to create a bunch of bogus files full of hyperlinks.

The original post has some header information about this particular hack (a modified c100 shell), as well as a link to some search results about the file. I looked through the source code for the shell script and tested it out on my local server – getting some link-filled files is the least that this script could do.
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