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Message-ID: <4E129B8A.7090506@digitaloffense.net>
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:05:14 -0500
From: HD Moore <hdm@...italoffense.net>
To: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
CC: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, scarybeasts@...il.com
Subject: Re: vsftpd download backdoored
On 7/5/2011 12:02 AM, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 08:21:12AM +0400, Solar Designer wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 11:04:00PM -0500, HD Moore wrote:
>>> This copy is backdoored and has mtime Feb-15-2011. Chris didn't reply
>>> when I asked him for a copy from his master (old/vsftpd-2.3.4.tar.gz).
>>>
>>> http://download.polytechnic.edu.na/pub2/vsftpd/vsftpd-2.3.4.tar.gz
>>
>> This is very helpful, thank you! How did you find it?
>>
>> So, I failed to get this server to give me ctime (looked at HTTP headers
>> and also tried several FTP commands), and the mtime is Feb 15. We could
>> ask the server admins for the ctime.
>
> I think I got the equivalent of the ctime by listing the mtime for ".".
> It is Jul 01 22:35. Not sure what timezone, though. Some analysis of
> other timestamps on that server suggests UTC-1, but Wikipedia says UTC+1
> or +2 for Namibia.
>
> So it appears that the backdoor was introduced between June 30 14:15 UTC
> and July 1 23:35 UTC (probably before 21:35, though).
Thanks Alexander! I will update references accordingly, nice call on the
o's, ill continue digging there, would love to unmask this asshat
through included env :)
-HD
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