Re: Possible hacker using php script to send e-mails?

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If possible, i like to see this script to try to know exactly wath's happen.

Merlin wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I am running php 4.x on a suse 9.x machine. There is a php script which
> resides on a webapp that is responsible for sending e-mail to myself in
> case of errors like db-errors or similar. Called error.php
> This script does include phpmailer and uses it to send the e-mails to me.
> Now I am receiving on the e-mail specified as TO: e-mails with different
> subject than specified and different text?! All english text with wired
> sentences, must be a bot or so. How is this possible? The subject line is
> fixed and right after that commend send is executed. So no idea how they
> do it and how I can prevent it. It looks like this:
> $mail->Subject = 'Fehlerbericht';
> $mail->Send();
> How is it possible that they change this subject line? I checked the
> server log and each time an e-mail has been sent to me of that kind there
> is a logentry in apache log that says that this script has been executed.
> So the e-mails definatelly come from that script?!
> 
> Can anybody help?
> 
> Regards, Merlin

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