Hello Monks,

I was contacted by one of our webadmins, because there where a ton of log entries in their webserver logs which show: 
http://66.220.25.153/cgi-bin/nph-blizzard.cgi/0000000A/06131970/http/w
+ww.acme.com/template/search_results.cfm?searchterms=Corona+Networks
http://216.127.82.63/cgi-bin/nph-blizzard.cgi/0000000A/06131970/http/w
+ww.acme.com/template/search_results.cfm?searchterms=Factiva
http://198.69.224.170/cgi-bin/nph-blizzard.cgi/0000000A/06131970/http/
+www.acme.com/template/search_results.cfm?searchterms=Salomon+Smith+Ba
+rney
http://66.220.25.153/cgi-bin/nph-blizzard.cgi/0000000A/06131970/http/w
+ww.acme.com/template/search_results.cfm?searchterms=Business+Objects
http://208.234.7.90/cgi-bin/nph-blizz.cgi/0000000A/06131970/http/www.a
+cme.com/template/search_results.cfm?searchterms=NationsBank

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I went to one of these sites and it's some type of CGI form. I try to enter a website address, but I get a stupid page that says "Say Hi to Chico." You are probably wondering why I'm posting this to PM. Well, I did a search on google (both groups and search engine) for CGI-based ppppp, ppppp, nph-blizzard, but didn't find anything. I figured somoeone here might have seen this before and could tell me what this CGI script does, so I can determine if it's malicius or not and block these ip's at our firewall. I appreciate any help.

Thanks,
Dru

In reply to Possible Security Incident with a CGI form - Need Help by Dru

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