It's a linux box running apache and while not DOS level - we are
seeing 100's of these a day. They're all doing a get on the same
non-existent pdf file, and they all redirect to some random porn site
- sometimes the same one, sometimes different ones.


On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> how many is "a bunch"? DoS level? I saw that conficker attacked the
> University of Utah is why I ask
>
> that 324 is an http code? if so it's just an apache error talking
> about header length which is not useful in itself
>
> Are the requests all coming from the same system?
>
> what OS is the server?
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Deanna Schneider
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Okay, our server admin is seeing a bunch of redirects in our logs. Of
>> course, these are logs for the entire server, but because the initial
>> get is for something that we used to have on the server, he's wanting
>> us to figure out how it's happening. Any pointers? This is the sort of
>> stuff he's seeing (Identifying info changed to protect the innocent)
>>
>> IP ADDRESS - - [14/Apr/2009:00:42:40 -0500] "GET "A-NON-EXISTENT (BUT
>> USED TO EXIST) URL HERE" HTTP/1.1" 301 324 "Nasty spammy URL HERE"
>> "\xef\xbb\xbfMozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
>> rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6"
>>
>> I've done a grep for uses of cflocation in conjunction with form or
>> url variables, but haven't found anything that I think could be the
>> culprit...other thoughts?
>>
>> The requests are coming from an IP in England...if that's any help at all.
>>
>> -Deanna
>>
>>
>
> 

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