On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 16:45 -0300, Andres Riancho wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Anirban Banerjee
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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
> 
> If you upgrade to the latest version, you shouldn't have this problem.
> 
Upgraded to a new version, and then tried the backdoor module on another
test site. Unfortunately it seems that all the false positives
resurfaced.
Request

[code]
GET http://www.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com/~nobody/NCC-Shell.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com
Cookie:
7f19c74bba0bc7f134bd61de0cc38776=65a3f7e20e2237ed5acf90f3823d80c6
Accept-encoding: identity
Accept: */*
User-agent: Mozilla/4.0(compatible;xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
 
[/code]

Response

[code]

HTTP/1.1 406 Not Acceptable
date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:26:07 GMT
transfer-encoding: chunked
content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
server: Apache/1.3.41 (Unix) mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4
mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.31
OpenSSL/0.9.7a


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>406 Not Acceptable</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Not Acceptable</H1>
An appropriate representation of the requested
resource /~nobody/NCC-Shell.php could not be found on this server.<P>
<P>Additionally, a 404 Not Found
error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the
request.
<HR>
<ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.41 Server at www.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com Port
80</ADDRESS>
</BODY></HTML>

[/code]

Am I interpreting something incorrectly? any comments :-)

> >>
> >> Stephan Debelle
> >> Digital Marketing Services, Americas
> >> https://dms.unilever.com
> >> 201-894-7180 - NJ
> >> 203-258-9559 - Mobile
> >> 203-581-6010 - Fax
> >>
> >>
> >> -----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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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Andrés Riancho
> >> http://www.bonsai-sec.com/
> >> http://w3af.sourceforge.net/
> >>
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> >
> >
> 
> 
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