F19: Is this an httpd attack attempt?

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wolfgang.rupprecht at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 03:21:09 UTC 2014


lee <lee at yun.yagibdah.de> writes:
> Could someone please explain why/how this may be considered as an attack
> or at least as something bad?  Someone requesting an URL from a web
> server that doesn´t serve this URL --- or doesn´t serve the specified
> domain at all --- could be caused by incorrect responses from name
> servers, couldn´t it?
>
> What is it in particular that would distinguish the request in question
> from others?

This is not an attack, but someone fishing for information.  I
understand that apache in some modes give you the first configured vhost
when encountering a query like that.   Someone wanted to see if there
was something juicy lying around.  The server served the URL "http://<vhost0>/"
which was the index.{html,htm,php,etc} file in the vhost0 root directory.

-wolfgang


More information about the users mailing list