Security Incidents: Re: HTTP attack looking for /sumthin ?

[H C <keydet89 () yahoo com>]

What makes you think it's an attack?


--- jmaywood1975 () hushmail com wrote:
> Does anyone have any ideas what attack this might
> be?
>
> Below shows 4 seperate potential attacks by 3
> different hosts, this is all the activity in my logs
> for those three hosts, nothing more anywhere related
> to those three ip address.
>
> It starts with a request for the directory /sumthin
> maybe tries a header exploit by sending a VERSION
> method?
> and connects ssl.
>
> My googling and mailing list searches dont turn
> anything up about what this might be.
>
> Anyone else see these hits for the /sumthin
> directory or know what they might be?
>
> Sorry for the long lines of log and wrap.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> [philbo:/var/log/httpd] root# grep 205.221.242.1 *
> access_combined_log:205.221.242.1 - -
> [16/Oct/2002:16:14:23 -0400] "GET /sumthin HTTP/1.0"
> 404 201 "-" "-"
>
> access_log:205.221.242.1 - - [16/Oct/2002:16:14:23
> -0400] "GET /sumthin HTTP/1.0" 404 201
>
> error_log:[Wed Oct 16 16:14:23 2002] [error] [client
> 205.221.242.1] File does not exist:
> /home/webserver/Documents/sumthin
>
> ssl_engine_log:[16/Oct/2002 16:14:23 26577] [info] 
> Connection to child 4 established (server
> philbo.stonecruz.com:443, client 205.221.242.1)
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> [philbo:/var/log/httpd] root# grep 62.233.149.2 *
> access_combined_log:62.233.149.2 - -
> [10/Oct/2002:14:30:55 -0400] "GET /sumthin HTTP/1.0"
> 404 201 "-" "-"
>
> access_log:62.233.149.2 - - [10/Oct/2002:14:30:55
> -0400] "GET /sumthin HTTP/1.0" 404 201
>
> error_log:[Thu Oct 10 14:30:55 2002] [error] [client
> 62.233.149.2] File does not exist:
> /home/webserver/Documents/sumthin
>
> ssl_engine_log:[10/Oct/2002 14:30:54 26572] [info] 
> Connection to child 0 established (server
> philbo.stonecruz.com:443, client 62.233.149.2)
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> [philbo:/var/log/httpd] root# grep 205.150.215.204 *
> access_combined_log:205.150.215.204 - -
> [10/Oct/2002:05:21:17 -0400] "GET /sumthin HTTP/1.0"
> 404 201 "-" "-"
>
> access_log:205.150.215.204 - - [01/Oct/2002:12:00:39
> -0400] "VERSION" 501 -
>
> access_log:205.150.215.204 - - [10/Oct/2002:05:21:17
> -0400] "GET /sumthin HTTP/1.0" 404 201
>
> error_log:[Tue Oct  1 12:00:39 2002] [error] [client
> 205.150.215.204] Invalid method in request VERSION
>
> error_log:[Thu Oct 10 05:21:17 2002] [error] [client
> 205.150.215.204] File does not exist:
> /home/webserver/Documents/sumthin
>
> ssl_engine_log:[01/Oct/2002 12:00:38 15149] [info] 
> Connection to child 3 established (server
> philbo.stonecruz.com:443, client 205.150.215.204)
>
> ssl_engine_log:[10/Oct/2002 05:21:17 26575] [info] 
> Connection to child 2 established (server
> philbo.stonecruz.com:443, client 205.150.215.204)
>
>
>
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