Worm Propagation and Generic Attacks

  • Authors:
  • Elias Levy

  • Affiliations:
  • Symantec

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This past December, a new family of worms was discovered. The family, Santy, attacked Web applications written in the PHP scripting language. Santy is interesting for two reasons: First, its worms used Web search engines to locate likely targets; second, a Santy variant exploited a generic flaw in PHP applications, rather than a specific vulnerability.