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Aug
30
2010
What the hackers are looking for ? #3
Posted by ebal at 05:22:55 in planet_ellak, planet_Sysadmin

For the past year i am looking for http 404 (not found) on my blog. I have only two sites, a blog & a wiki, so without any other web application, i can monitor for web vulnerabilities (that hackers are looking for) by just looking for 404 (Not Found) http errors.

I am using mod_rewrite for URL manipulation. My custom .htaccess redirects every Not Found (404) page to my index.php.
You can use it too, but you must be extremely careful.

You MUST NOT have any valid URLs with one the files below.
If you have, just remove the specific line from the .htaccess file.

An example:

Url: http://balaskas.gr/README doesnt exist,
so if you click on it, you should redirect to my home page.

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule xmlrpc.php$ index.php
RewriteRule login_page.php$ index.php
RewriteRule setup.php$ index.php
RewriteRule config.inc.php$ index.php
RewriteRule multithumb.php$ index.php
RewriteRule orderSuccess.inc.php$ index.php
RewriteRule send_reminders.php$ index.php
RewriteRule config.php$ index.php
RewriteRule ask_password.php$ index.php
RewriteRule msgimport$ index.php
RewriteRule README$ index.php
RewriteRule fastenv$ index.php
RewriteRule main.php$ index.php
RewriteRule sql.php$ index.php
RewriteRule error.php$ index.php
RewriteRule errors.php$ index.php
RewriteRule sitemap.xml$ index.php
RewriteRule show_image_in_imgtag.php$ index.php
RewriteRule phpmyadmin$ index.php
RewriteRule blackhat.dll$ index.php
RewriteRule general.js$ index.php
RewriteRule get_reminders.php$ index.php
RewriteRule install.txt$ index.php
RewriteRule get_events.php$ index.php
RewriteRule auth.inc.php$ index.php
RewriteRule delete.php$ index.php
RewriteRule adxmlrpc$ index.php
RewriteRule class.dashboard_lms.php$ index.php
RewriteRule home$ index.php
RewriteRule default.php$ index.php
RewriteRule index.inc.php$ index.php
RewriteRule logging.php$ index.php
RewriteRule public.php$ index.php
RewriteRule index.inc.php$ index.php
RewriteRule add-cats.php$ index.php
RewriteRule nosuichfile.php$ index.php
RewriteRule judge.php$ index.php
RewriteRule apple-touch-icon.png$ index.php
RewriteRule apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png$ index.php
RewriteRule host-meta$ index.php

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