On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 08:33 -0400, Debelle, Stephan wrote:
> For what it is worth I did also notice some false positive using the same 
> pluggin, in fact it showed that it found so many backdoors when it was not 
> the case. 
> 
On a lighter note, when I ran this plugin against a test site I nearly
had a heart attack, every possible backdoor was reported as
active..whew! :D
> 
> Stephan Debelle
> Digital Marketing Services, Americas
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andres Riancho
> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 9:51 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [W3af-users] w3af newbie question
> 
> Anirban,
> 
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Anirban Banerjee <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >         I am a w3af newbie. I have searched for an answer to my 
> > question but have not found something spot on and hence this mail.
> >
> > I ran a scan against a site and this is what came up among other things.
> >
> > A web backdoor was found at:
> > http://www.xxxxxxxxxxx.com/php-backdoor.php ; this could indicate that 
> > your server was hacked. The vulnerability was found in the request 
> > with id 326.
> >
> > URL : http://www.xxxxxxxxxxx.com/php-backdoor.php
> >
> > I have checked the server and have not found any file like this, I 
> > have used search engines to see if they picked up anything and they 
> > didn't. I have tried the URL and got 404 errors. Should I use netcat 
> > to connect or something? I have looked at the output-http.txt file and 
> > located Request/Response 326 and see a 404 error there. Any advice 
> > would be greatly appreciated :)
> 
> Seems to be a false positive, w3af fails to detect 404 error messages 
> sometimes.
> 
> > Thanks :-)
> >
> >
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