Fingerprinting (potential) Sinkhole Server

Posted: July 1st, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: IT Related | Tags: | No Comments »

A short update, a note for myself

Last May, while discussing with a friend, we’ve concluded that these 2 header (HTTP header) example indicate that those servers are sinkhole servers:

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: Apache 1.0/SinkSoft
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 06:11:29 GMT
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 07:26:20 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.20 (Ubuntu)
X-Sinkhole: malware-sinkhole
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: text/html

So we can look for:

  • Apache 1.0/SinkSoft
  • X-Sinkhole:

Today, I’ve found “Server: TornadoServer” is another indicator. But i’m not yet 100% sure. Comments are welcome