Notfred: Hacker detective.

Pr0Hawk

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Well comming back from taking my finals today, i strolled to my site to check how many hits I got. When I got there it was a big white page that said someone hacked me. picture here So I quickly went, FSCK!!!! So I opened up my index.php and I nothing was changed there so I knew this guy just fscked around with our php programed CP. I knew he used the upload script the mess with my site, but how he did it was not clear to me.

So I opened up AIM+ and found Notfred online. He seemed to be as intrigued as I was in this situation and he quickly lent a helping hand to solve this cybercrime. Notfred never did any hax0ring until today. Through my log files It was clear that he used the upload script to upload a series of files that were helpful to him gaining more access. Pic of what he uploaded first
He ran that script to see what version of PHP I had installed and then wrote a seiries of his own scripts to find out more information.

Through me and Notfred's investigation we can conclude these series of events
- He was browsing through his anime forum when he found a site where people were using to upload their avatars (my site, since I had a very simple upload script)
- He then uploaded that phpversion file to see what version of php I had and where my path roots were.
- He then fondled himself as he got aroused at his hacking attempt
- Through that file he found out that my cp was in the directory ADMIN and he got a list of all the files
- he found config.php which had the database user/pass in it and ran this.
- Using that, this is what came up, SCREENSHOT
- He then got access to the admin folder and deleted the sitehtml for my site replacing it with a stupid OMG I HACKED YOUR SITE KTHX txt message. You think kiddies could be more creative!

Anyways not much harm was done. No files were deleted except some html which I have backed up on my computer. Just beware for a crazy swedish hacker who likes DELETED you know the urlname.

Thanks to notfred for his accomplishment today in being a hacker detective. Thats all.


 

notfred

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Originally posted by: acidvoodoo
so, was it notfred who hacked you

Only after someone else hacked him first. I had to hack him to discover the exploit that the other guy used.
 

CurtCold

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"He then fondled himself as he got aroused at his hacking attempt"

So did Bill Clinton hack your site?

;)
 

lilFajita

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Originally posted by: Pr0Hawk

- He then fondled himself as he got aroused at his hacking attempt
:Q

er, how did you figure that out!?!?! :confused: good job anyway, notfred! :)
 

notfred

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Also - anyone writing PHP (or any other web scripting language) should be careful, and test your script for security problems. Otherwise your site might end up looking like prohawk's.
 

ProviaFan

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Pr0Hawk, the book "PHP and MySQL Web Development" (what I'm learning from right now, though I'm only on chapter 4) has some chapters on security. If you're doing the PHP yourself, you might want to check out this book. It is quite easy to find if you know where to look. ;)
 

Notfred is the man - pic hosting, working for the Dept. of Nat. Resources, owns a Mustang, hot GF - Notfred, you are the coolest.
 

notfred

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Originally posted by: guapo337
i used to think of notfred as a disgruntled computer geek only topped by red dawn (mainly because of his dry sarcasm at times).

Wow, I didn't know I came off THAT badly.
 

Hoober

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Originally posted by: notfred
Originally posted by: guapo337
i used to think of notfred as a disgruntled computer geek only topped by red dawn (mainly because of his dry sarcasm at times).

Wow, I didn't know I came off THAT badly.

Only most of the time. ;)