- Use Case Reference : SUC004
- Use Case Title : phpMyAdmin User-Agent Revolt Scanner
- Use Case Detection : HTTP Logs / IDS
- Attacker Class : Opportunists
- Attack Sophistication : Unsophisticated
- Identified tool(s) : Revolt Scanner
- Source IP(s) : Random
- Source Countries : Random
- Source Port(s) : Random port, but static source port when scan is initiated
- Destination Port(s) : 80/TCP, 443/TCP
Possible(s) correlation(s) :
- phpMyAdmin scanner
Source(s) :
Surely during your daily HTTP log check, you have detect theses kind of patterns.
... 209.200.33.196 - - [23/Apr/2010:11:39:54 +0200] "HEAD http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80/mysql/sqlmanager/ HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "revolt" 209.200.33.196 - - [23/Apr/2010:11:39:54 +0200] "HEAD http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80/mysql/mysqlmanager/ HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "revolt" 209.200.33.196 - - [23/Apr/2010:11:39:54 +0200] "HEAD http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80/phpmyadmin/ HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "revolt" 209.200.33.196 - - [23/Apr/2010:11:39:54 +0200] "HEAD http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80/phpMyadmin/ HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "revolt" 209.200.33.196 - - [23/Apr/2010:11:39:54 +0200] "HEAD http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80/phpMyAdmin/ HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "revolt" 209.200.33.196 - - [23/Apr/2010:11:39:54 +0200] "HEAD http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80/phpmyAdmin/ HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "revolt" 209.200.33.196 - - [23/Apr/2010:11:39:54 +0200] "HEAD http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80/phpmyadmin2/ HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "revolt" 209.200.33.196 - - [23/Apr/2010:11:39:55 +0200] "HEAD http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80/2phpmyadmin/ HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "revolt" 209.200.33.196 - - [23/Apr/2010:11:39:55 +0200] "HEAD http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80/phpmy/ HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "revolt" 209.200.33.196 - - [23/Apr/2010:11:39:55 +0200] "HEAD http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80/phppma/ HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "revolt" 209.200.33.196 - - [23/Apr/2010:11:39:55 +0200] "HEAD http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80/myadmin/ HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "revolt" 209.200.33.196 - - [23/Apr/2010:11:39:55 +0200] "HEAD http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80/MyAdmin/ HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "revolt" 209.200.33.196 - - [23/Apr/2010:11:39:55 +0200] "HEAD http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80/program/ HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "revolt" ...
Theses patterns are related to Revolt Scanner, an Web scanner specialized in phpMyAdmin installation discovery. When the scanner is started the source port will stay static during the complete web directory discovery brute forcing. Also, this scanner is only targeting the IN A IP address of the domain he is asking.
Theses scans are detected by Emerging Threats Snort rules, more precisely the 2009288 “WEB_SERVER Attack Tool Revolt Scanner“.
You can find here, the typical list of directories how are scanned by revolt.
Here under you can find the latest statistics for Revolt Agent activities.
