Re: Unusual entry in Apache logs

On May 30, 2008, at 1:59 PM, Rob Thomas wrote:

> Hi, Neil.
>
> > 125.224.192.192 - - [29/May/2008:09:15:34 -0500] "\x05\x01" 501  
> > 3100 "-" "-"
>
> This IP has been sending spam since at least 2008-04-24 15:34:38  
> UTC. It's also been scanning for the typical proxy ports lately  
> (most recently 2008-05-29 02:34:16 UTC), e.g. TCP 8080, TCP 3128,  
> TCP 1080, and TCP 80.  I suspect this is what it was doing when it  
> visited your server.  Possibly it's a bot.


It's almost definitely looking for a proxy server - a SOCKS 5 connect  
attempt will start with the characters 0x05 0x01, followed by a 0x00  
which I believe Apache interprets as the end of the request.

   The SOCKS request is formed as follows:

        +----+-----+-------+------+----------+----------+
        |VER | CMD |  RSV  | ATYP | DST.ADDR | DST.PORT |
        +----+-----+-------+------+----------+----------+
        | 1  |  1  | X'00' |  1   | Variable |    2     |
        +----+-----+-------+------+----------+----------+

     Where:

          o  VER    protocol version: X'05'
          o  CMD
             o  CONNECT X'01'
-- Kevin