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Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time

344 pointsby denysvitaliyesterday at 10:53 PM87 commentsview on HN

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naturalmovementyesterday at 11:57 PM

I front all my honeypots with the IIS landing page precisely because it attracts black hat jagoffs.

Nothing makes me happier than knowing I've wasted hours of their time chasing their own tails.

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Lammytoday at 1:27 AM

> IIS has a legacy behavior inherited from the old DOS 8.3 filename convention.

Is this exposing the underlying OS's behavior coupled with the fact that the IIS document root is `C:\Inetpub` by default? Eight-dot-three filenames are enabled by default on the C drive but disabled by default on all other drives on Windows 10/11:

  PS> (Get-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion').DisplayVersion
  24H2

  PS> fsutil 8dot3name query C:
  The volume state is: 0 (8dot3 name creation is ENABLED)
  The registry state is: 2 (Per volume setting - the default)
  Based on the above settings, 8dot3 name creation is ENABLED on "C:"

  PS> fsutil 8dot3name query U:
  The volume state is: 1 (8dot3 name creation is DISABLED)
  The registry state is: 2 (Per volume setting - the default)
  Based on the above settings, 8dot3 name creation is DISABLED on "U:"
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xmcp123today at 11:32 AM

Oh man this takes me back.

Once upon a time, all server logs were basically unusable because of the amount of IIS scanners out there. There was a directory traversal that was literally just url encoding “../“ that absolutely lit the internet on fire for many months.

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hstaabtoday at 12:24 AM

The tone of this is something else

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t1234stoday at 1:43 AM

Does anyone use IIS anymore?

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AuthAuthtoday at 12:27 AM

Ah webpage formatting cooked but otherwise a fun read

Group_Btoday at 1:15 AM

Would love to see a write yo on nginx!

sytelustoday at 12:46 AM

This is extremely well done design (at least on full desktop browsers). Amazing content as well.

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NooneAtAll3today at 4:31 AM

what's the deal with left sidebar overlapping the main text?

kahf56today at 5:16 AM

good entertainment