20 Apr
2009
20 Apr
'09
1:23 p.m.
Paul Ferguson wrote:
Most likely SQL injection. At any given time, there are hundreds of thousands of "legitimate" websites out there that are unwittingly harboring malicious code.
Most of the MS-SQL injection attacks we see write malicious javascript into the DB itself so all query results include it. However, I'm not sure how easy it is to leverage to get system access - we've seen a number of compromised customer machines and there didn't appear to be any further compromise of them beyond the obvious. In the OP's case it sounds like static HTML files were altered. My bet is that an ftp or ssh account was brute forced. Mike