Poisoned Pipeline / Incidents / AS274
vsftpd distribution site served backdoor
Windows softwareInstaller / update channel
Catalogued from the tstromberg supplychain-attack-data dataset
(community-curated incident corpus). Included because first-party
sources exist for it; see the links below — vendor advisories, project
incident reports, and researcher write-ups. Not based on aggregator
coverage.
Mapped techniques
- T0172 Runtime backdoor
- T0184 Harvesting sensitive information from files
- T0209 Compromise package registry or CDN origin
supply-chain campaign
Backdoor/RAT payload documented by the cited sources.
Credential or wallet material targeted.
Distribution origin hosted the trojanized artifact.
Sources
- https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/07/alert-vsftpd-download-backdoored.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210127090552/https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/07/alert-vsftpd-download-backdoored.html
- https://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/unix/ftp/vsftpd_234_backdoor/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210228222523/https://pastebin.com/AetT9sS5
- https://pastebin.com/AetT9sS5
- https://github.com/DoctorKisow/vsftpd-2.3.4