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Operating Systems Linux Debian Malicious perl script Post 302992395 by drysdalk on Friday 24th of February 2017 11:33:08 AM
Old 02-24-2017
Hi,

I suspect these are two different issues. So far you have seen evidence of attempted brute-forcing of your WordPress logins, and you also saw a Perl script establishing a variety of outbound SMTP connections back at the very start of this thread.

It is entirely possible that the two are related, but equally they may not be. There's always a steady trickle of would-be brute-forcing and exploit scanning in the logs of pretty much every Web server on the Internet, more or less. If your WordPress installation is genuinely secure, these should be nothing to worry about. More sinister is the Perl script.

If in the output of ps and top right now you're not able to see any errant Perl scripts, and if there is nothing Perl-related in any of your Web logs, then there's not much more you can do at this point to track down that Perl script.

What you can say for sure is that your server was clearly running an unexpected Perl script that appeared to be establishing a variety of outbound SMTP connections, and it must have come from somewhere. And if that somewhere wasn't you, then you do definitely have a security issue you still need to get to the bottom of.
 

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Net::Server::Mail::ESMTP::XFORWARD(3pm) 		User Contributed Perl Documentation		   Net::Server::Mail::ESMTP::XFORWARD(3pm)

NAME
Net::Server::Mail::ESMTP::XFORWARD - A module to add support to the XFORWARD command in Net::Server::Mail::ESMTP SYNOPSIS
use Net::Server::Mail::ESMTP; my @local_domains = qw(example.com example.org); my $server = new IO::Socket::INET Listen => 1, LocalPort => 25; my $conn; while($conn = $server->accept) { my $esmtp = new Net::Server::Mail::ESMTP socket => $conn; # activate some extensions $esmtp->register('Net::Server::Mail::ESMTP::XFORWARD'); # adding some handlers $esmtp->set_callback(RCPT => &validate_recipient); $esmtp->process(); $conn->close() } sub validate_recipient { my($session, $recipient) = @_; my $domain; if($recipient =~ /@(.*)>s*$/) { $domain = $1; } if(not defined $domain) { return(0, 513, 'Syntax error.'); } elsif(not(grep $domain eq $_, @local_domains) && $session->get_forwarded_addr != "10.1.1.1") { return(0, 554, "$recipient: Recipient address rejected: Relay access denied"); } return(1); } DESCRIPTION
When using a Net::Server::Mail::ESMTP script inside a MTA and not in front of Internet, values like client IP address are not accessible to the script and when the script returns mail to an other instance of smtpd daemon, it logs "localhost" as incoming address. To solve this problem, some administrators use the XFORWARD command. This module gives the ability to read and store XFORWARD informations. METHODS These methods return the values set by the upstream MTA without modifying them so they can be set to undef or "[UNVAILABLE]". See Postfix documentation for more. o get_forwarded_values : returns a hash reference containing all values forwarded (keys in lower case). o get_forwarded_name : returns the up-stream hostname. The hostname may be a non-DNS hostname. o get_forwarded_address : returns the up-stream network address. Address information is not enclosed with []. The address may be a non-IP address. o get_forwarded_source : returns LOCAL or REMOTE. o get_forwarded_helo : returns the hostname that the up-stream host announced itself. It may be a non-DNS hostname. o get_forwarded_proto : returns the mail protocol for receiving mail from the up-stream host. This may be an SMTP or non-SMTP protocol name of up to 64 characters. SEE ALSO
Net::Server::Mail::ESMTP, <http://www.postfix.org/XFORWARD_README.html> AUTHOR
Xavier Guimard, <x.guimard@free.fr> COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2006 by Xavier Guimard This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.6.4 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available. POD ERRORS
Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained below: Around line 167: You forgot a '=back' before '=head1' perl v5.10.0 2007-04-09 Net::Server::Mail::ESMTP::XFORWARD(3pm)
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