Over the last several years, malware writers have clearly
come to understand that gaining access to web servers can
bring more benefi ts than infecting users’ PCs. Nowadays,
there are millions of completely unprotected web servers with
different kinds of vulnerabilities, so it is easy for attackers to
upload web shells and gain access to them. Although in the
vast majority of cases such access is restricted by the web
server’s rights on the target system, attackers successfully
fi nd ways to gain maximum advantage. In this article we
describe ‘Mayhem’ – a new kind of malware for *nix web
servers that has the functions of a traditional Windows bot,
but which can act under restricted privileges in the system
more here..............https://www.virusbtn.com/pdf/magazine/2014/vb201407-Mayhem.pdf
come to understand that gaining access to web servers can
bring more benefi ts than infecting users’ PCs. Nowadays,
there are millions of completely unprotected web servers with
different kinds of vulnerabilities, so it is easy for attackers to
upload web shells and gain access to them. Although in the
vast majority of cases such access is restricted by the web
server’s rights on the target system, attackers successfully
fi nd ways to gain maximum advantage. In this article we
describe ‘Mayhem’ – a new kind of malware for *nix web
servers that has the functions of a traditional Windows bot,
but which can act under restricted privileges in the system
more here..............https://www.virusbtn.com/pdf/magazine/2014/vb201407-Mayhem.pdf