[Systems] Hacked content detected on http://www.sugarlabs.org/

Sam P. sam at sam.today
Wed Oct 14 02:54:11 EDT 2015


Ok, so changed the new static site to hide all of the todos and stuff:
http://www.sam.today/

When you all are ok I'll deploy it if you want.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Sam P. <sam at sam.today> wrote:

> Yeah, its pretty close to ready.  I can probably hide the todos and change
> some of the links so it will be OK?  CCing for Walter's opinion
>
> On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 7:50 am Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
>
>> How about replacing this old and insecure website?
>>
>> If the new one isn't ready yet, we could temporarily serve a minimalistic
>> page with the SL logo and a few links to the main resources. A bit like the
>> Google home page...
>>
>> On October 13, 2015 4:26:37 PM EDT, Samuel Cantero <scanterog at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I just recently erase all the unwanted images and the malicious php
>>> files for www.slo.
>>>
>>> The injected URLs [f*or ex:
>>> sugarlabs.org/index.php/cheap-canadian-viagra/
>>> <http://sugarlabs.org/index.php/cheap-canadian-viagra/> or
>>> sugarlabs.org/index.php/viagra <http://sugarlabs.org/index.php/viagra>*]
>>> are not working anymore. Those URLs were generated with the head.php
>>> script. The complete decoded code can be found here:
>>> http://www.fpaste.org/278824/.
>>>
>>> Also, the b374k-shell webshell is not working anymore. For the curious,
>>> it looked like this: http://snag.gy/BmcA1.jpg
>>>
>>
>>> I've found similar php files in walterbender.org the other day. I
>>> replaced the wh ole site for an uncompromised one.
>>>
>>
>>> Anyway, we still have to find how they did that and how can we protect
>>> our server from this kind of exploit. It is not easy though. It can be a
>>> security vulnerability on wordpress, some plugin or a permission problem.
>>>
>>> Still pending to follow the CERT intruder detection checklist.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 7:18 AM, Sam P. <sam at sam.today> wrote:
>>>
>> I was just running ls -lsah on the root of www.slo, and it told me:
>>>>
>>>> * Th e spam (head.php) was last modified on Jun 23 13:56.  I assume
>>>> this is the creation date too.
>>>>
>>> * head.php is owned by www-data.  I assume this means that it came from
>>>> php or apache?
>>>> * index.php was modified 1 minute after head.php.  It has a command to
>>>> "include("head.php");"
>>>> * every directory was modified within 2 minutes after the spam
>>>> creation, including .git
>>>>     * eg. css/comnon.php base64 or something encoded php.  Looks a
>>>> different style to head.php, no use of regex, but IDK.  It is a php
>>>> webshell named b374k-shell version 2.8.
>>>>     * eg. assets/fs-login.php encoded php that is decoded using a
>>>> regex.  Prompts for a passoword, but no identifying stuff
>>>>     * There are also files called fedit.php Iicense.php (starting with
>>>> cap. i) lndex.php (lower case L)
>>>>
>>>> Some files came before head.php, see
>>>> http://www.fpaste.org/278658/47310741/
>>>>
>>>> Also, reviewing Walter's repo, I can't find a clean copy of the
>>>> website, see https://github.com/walterbender/www-sugarlabs/issues/11
>>>>  So hum, cleaning this will be fun!
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Sam
>>>>
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Samuel Cantero <scanterog at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I can't continue working on this today. Tomorrow I will try to search
>>>>> related files. We can erase the suspicious files now but if we do not find
>>>>> the root cause, it will happen again.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks James. I will google for it.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 10:27 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Sadly, I've done PHP.  There were PHP vulnerabilities that can lead
>>>>>> to site compromise if the www directory was writable by the apache
>>>>>> processes that run PHP.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Follow the CERT intruder detection checklist if you can.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 13/10/2015, at 12:01 PM, Samuel Cantero wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> > Also, I've found the followings php files with suspicious code:
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > /srv/www-sugarlabs/www/images/favicons/class.wp-date.php
>>>>>> > /srv/www-sugarlabs/www/old/fedit.php
>>>>>> > /srv/www-sugarlabs/www/old/Iicense.php
>>>>>> > /srv/www-sugarlabs/www/scripts/fs-login.php
>>>>>> > /srv/www-sugarlabs/www/xsl/fs-login.php
>>>>>> > /srv/www-sugarlabs/www/.git/lndex.php
>>>>>> > /srv/www-sugarlabs/www/cache/fedit.php
>>>>>> > /srv/www-sugarlabs/www/cache/Iicense.php
>>>>>> > /srv/www-sugarlabs/www/.cache.php
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > In addition, some gzipped base64 encoded php using some hexadecimal
>>>>>> character codes. This "fancy" code is executed via preg_replace with the e
>>>>>> modifier.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > /srv/www-sugarlabs/www/images/Iicense.php
>>>>>> > /srv/www-sugarlabs/www/press/Iicense.php
>>>>>> > /srv/www-sugarlabs/www/xml/fedit.php
>>>>>> > /srv/www-sugarlabs/www/head.php
>>>>>> > /srv/www-sugarlabs/www/static/lndex.php
>>>>>> > /srv/www-sugarlabs/www/assets/fs-login.php
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > An expert in PHP here?
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > This is just Sugar Labs web site. Maybe we have a lot of them in
>>>>>> the entire /srv directory. I have to look for it.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Regards,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 9:03 PM, Samuel Cantero <
>>>>>> scanterog at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> > Google is right. Our site has been hacked.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > One example: http://www.sugarlabs.org/images/
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > There is a URL inyection:
>>>>>> http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php/cialis-10mg/
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I will try to find all URLs not belonging to our site and the root
>>>>>> cause.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Regards,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Bernie Innocenti <
>>>>>> bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
>>>>>> > Maybe all we need to do is click the reconsideration request link
>>>>>> and see what happens.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Feel free to take control of the domain if you want to see the
>>>>>> Google webmaster console.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > On October 12, 2015 3:11:53 PM EDT, "Ignacio Rodríguez" <
>>>>>> nachoel01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> > Is that updated?
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I remember to see some spam in sugarlabs.org (but it was Fixed).
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > AS the email says, can we rfetch as Google?  I mean, the tool for
>>>>>> that-
>>>>>> > Greetings,
>>>>>> > Ignacio
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > 2015-10-12 16:02 GMT, Sebastian Silva <sebastian at fuentelibre.org>:
>>>>>> >  I did a very quick look on the pages reported, and can't find
>>>>>> anything
>>>>>> >  suspicious with them.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >  On 12/10/15 10:52, Samuel Cantero wrote:
>>>>>> >  I can check this later (in 8 hours). I am away from my laptop now.
>>>>>> If
>>>>>> >  someone has found something please share the info.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >  Regards,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >  On Monday, 12 October 2015, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > <mailto:
>>>>>> > bernie at codewiz.org>> wrote:
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      Can someone look into this to see if our ancient website
>>>>>> really is
>>>>>> >      serving "hacked" content?
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      *From:* Google Search Console Team <sc-noreply at google.com
>>>>>> >      <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sc-noreply at google.com');>>
>>>>>> >      *Sent:* October 6, 2015 5:47:40 PM EDT
>>>>>> >      *To:* bernie.codewiz at gmail.com
>>>>>> >      <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','bernie.codewiz at gmail.com');>
>>>>>> >      *Subject:* Hacked content detected on
>>>>>> http://www.sugarlabs.org/
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      Message type: [WNC-633200]
>>>>>> >      Search Console
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      Hacked content detected on http://www.sugarlabs.org/
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      To: Webmaster of http://www.sugarlabs.org/,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      Google has detected that your site has been hacked by a third
>>>>>> >      party who created
>>>>>> > malicious content on some of your pages. This
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      critical issue utilizes your site’s reputation to show
>>>>>> potential
>>>>>> >      visitors unexpected or harmful content on your site or in
>>>>>> search
>>>>>> >      results. It also lowers the quality of results for Google
>>>>>> Search
>>>>>> >      users. Therefore, we have applied a manual action to your site
>>>>>> >      that will warn users of hacked content when your site appears
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> >      search results. To remove this warning, clean up the hacked
>>>>>> >      content, and file a reconsideration request. After we determine
>>>>>> >      that your site no longer has hacked content, we will remove
>>>>>> this
>>>>>> >      manual action.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      Following are some example URLs where we found pages that have
>>>>>> >      been compromised. Review them to gain a better sense of where
>>>>>> this
>>>>>> >      hacked content appears. The list is not exhaustive.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      http://git.sugarlabs.org/python-xkb/mainline/commits/35bdff6
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/publiclab/meetings
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/2015-06-07
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >          Here’s how to fix this problem:
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      1
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      Check Security Issues for details of the hack
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      Use the examples provided in the Security Issues report of
>>>>>> Search
>>>>>> >      Console to get an initial sample of hacked pages.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      Security Issues
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >  <
>>>>>> https://www.google.com/appserve/mkt/p/kVgkGZKCN3DzN06od04KKAtZ0MELd5xT3j6zpU-JXhXWycXm6bg2W2xxZcBHQshGY9Dbo6BoOE6t4b1qxyCKXO2Q-JbiMgnsBSipGOHR246wqlLQhLLeM2-Pn6UVjijAxh4IQbS8msvmyuCEhUM7SaaWo_iSJfqhdrGgwaX47_mqJlPAYaytPzxHn_TzI8idMH-b6vmj470TW8hQl-j2jruE55uGYSy_3fwvNKAOjSLNHJ11QWPMjSaVMX4IpasNLfbmYxP5PZW_0mGwbkoWtSMNVe3Mq7WU
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      2
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      Look for other compromised pages or files on your site
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      Be sure to check your entire site, including the homepage, for
>>>>>> any
>>>>>> >      unfamiliar content that could have been added. The malicious
>>>>>> code
>>>>>> >      might be placed in HTML, JavaScript, or other files on your
>>>>>> site.
>>>>>> >      It can also be hidden in places you might overlook, such as
>>>>>> server
>>>>>> >      configuration files (e.g. .htaccess file) or other dynamic
>>>>>> >      scripting pages (e.g. PHP, JSP). It’s important to be thorough
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> >      your investigation.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      3
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      Use the Fetch as Google tool to isolate the malicious content
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      Because some pages can appear one way to a user and another
>>>>>> way to
>>>>>> >      Google crawlers, you can use the Fetch as Google tool to reveal
>>>>>> >      some kinds of hacking. Enter URLs from your site in the tool to
>>>>>> >      see the pages as Google sees them. If the page has hidden
>>>>>> hacked
>>>>>> >      content, the tool can reveal that content.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      Fetch as Google
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >  <
>>>>>> https://www.google.com/appserve/mkt/p/I3Dm05ZvmwWJtGtmHNGyYK86h2nzUYGDM-1dIVEnmSHrHs0N84tDyBfUA5iDb72j6B-yiwNg-OrBO0P0PQbrU3v8R5tcVAdzYMv3OpcObaRWw6HuB_hF_vBUQ0wZEYtCIbe16MSxBLicOuFq6SP20C3-AbQorJKlU227T3AeC21nVaTf-KFMOvGO-OFQMdU8_Rthc-UT-ZB7e9_xKK8fusESgfkMAlFFnhedw1Mmy6z-7H7n_sA47L5Kf5TfpXQWf4tNFKZzfwYoKnY8NFJkNqyEOVpVQkAX
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      4
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      Remove all malicious content
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      You can also contact your hosting provider and ask them for
>>>>>> >      assistance. If you’re having trouble identifying and removing
>>>>>> all
>>>>>> >      the content on your site that is compromised, consider
>>>>>> restoring
>>>>>> >      an older backed-up
>>>>>> > version of your site.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      5
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      Secure your site from any future attacks
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      Identify and fix vulnerabilities that caused your site to be
>>>>>> >      compromised. Change passwords for administrative accounts.
>>>>>> >      Consider contacting your hosting service to get help with the
>>>>>> issue.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      6
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      Submit a reconsideration request
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      Once you fix your site, file for reconsideration to remove this
>>>>>> >      manual action. Include any details or documentation that can
>>>>>> help
>>>>>> >      us understand the changes made to your site.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      Reconsideration Request
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >  <
>>>>>> https://www.google.com/appserve/mkt/p/mkMChrLY5uOSnnaQ5gbTAFDfGwF9b6RURLy_mBu1favZezzi13VSZPX07YO4eT4qaxKtQQFbGwR5lgEHDrnmLOaVzvClgPw3zw4P5NW1tQCDpPfXWL3li5UfVcsWLvABq0-kSdP0RwG3S-icgEz1HOe4fAssqjSSFWSwdgGpDcsqBZK8h8zWXqgHmAnfU3-a93zxp54EiQASOsPPnMSvqx8oBIco-F5o-Ro4Da3xmZU6HpjdwyGPq_PYyPJ1utqx1VNivc0ptczU9Ga6kc6x_HzwsjXAtvwTwFDuzAqE
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >            Need more help?
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      •  Read our guide for hacked sites
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >  <
>>>>>> https://www.google.com/appserve/mkt/p/IV-1opuTX8iamyLtoalATOnDHD7nAlmgL8CVzxJazsopWNGnaydlADoMVjEnxX6PPmcoakoeoAI_pi9Fr94XUsVcDgZ_5t0jCV4eFMo3ehPi0RqjmdUphK8AeWrRaiNuPE-G8mLJo_0ZxqlIaNYBxdHxDhw9idMBli6GQxEjRhkJdZHPB7crjABDHO7pW3yIGDi2MuVI09y1bKc7QlGI6OTxGFTLmpQsLxGTCflqCA==
>>>>>> >.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      •  Learn how to use the Fetch as Google
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >  <
>>>>>> https://www.google.com/appserve/mkt/p/9Ir-Bt-67WRNvKE9owMrZLp8oZJ1HImuPu4xcaEPRb0JtnzPu6aTmg2CUheZmi-tuwqORJVIvjiPKkndT4yNd0YpPysKDsWv32eQNwCtJ4If7XJl13TyrO9HotNhwd7K9lpUYNvbMjVNl7nYSBHZ7AP4nWHNjelPl4jlZIRAMWdMtDDlsvyDT79bBAs83a7NjBY2D8FnVFd5b7MV3B4prCLse477PGMw_ADsoybItKdyR1bpPjsQ288=
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      tool in our Help Center.
>>>>>> >      •  Learn more about reconsideration requests
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >  <
>>>>>> https://www.google.com/appserve/mkt/p/aQ8PKvfwLMXzVU_Y2JKYswOlSi_DMZlgJxl_1pKoECDrfGb2bMv7ktikhnlpXYFo5pFod5pV_5MID2lXxPnG8JXg2IT2QK4EEHFK5CKy_jEld6vmacZzTy5qkLiQ_KXYEpR3IHJRXl_5bAzuInboteGdP3kowTaHbH0k5_KGdQ-7x_7Uc9S6ZuON2GRJgf_l7VBFlCpYx63dthhREfGl3aJAmrrd5B12fcQXpUS-XivElQ5E4tuW7TZJ6-2t
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >      in our Help Center.
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>>>>>> >
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