Off Topic - Can someone help?

[Martin.Hepworth]

Yeah, could be compromised php script that installed a root kit. Could be lots of things...

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Martin Hepworth
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> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Hugo van der Kooij
> Sent: 03 January 2008 06:29
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Off Topic - Can someone help?
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> ajos1 at onion.demon.co.uk wrote:
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> > I think I have a safe-ish system... (ie) not an open relay and so on...
> but TONIGHT all of a sudden something/someone is "suposably" able to
> relay.
>
> You are broken in to in some manner. Unless you take the system offline
> you will be sending spam and are to be held accountable.
>
> > Jan  3 01:28:50 www sendmail[5955]: m031SgPv005955:
> from=<dwkscy at yahoo.com>, size=1658, class=0, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<MESUDDUFSUEWDFVOVABXGNCN at yahoo.com>, bodytype=8BITMIME, proto=SMTP,
> daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
>
> Your SMTP client lives localy.
>
> > Jan  3 01:49:36 www sendmail[8581]: m031mFpI008581:
> from=<okorfhzoaiadke at yahoo.com>, size=6253, class=0, nrcpts=51,
> msgid=<CYSGRANINJSFZUJCWXBWXXN at yahoo.com>, bodytype=8BITMIME, proto=SMTP,
> daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
>
> And agaim.
>
> So you need to take the system offline and start forensics on the unit.
> As it is you should not trust ANYTHING on that machine. So anything you
> use to investigate needs to be started from a ReadOnly medium and not
> the system itself.
>
> I would start with the usual suspects like an SSH break in, ....
>
> Hugo.
>
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> 	>>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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