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WHM login by Softlayer tech for no reason.What to look for ?

nyjimbo
Last night CSF/LFD warned us that someone logged into our Cpanel WHM from an IP which is the tech support department of softlayer (where we get our servers). I didn't see anything in our tickets and so far nobody at Softlayer knows why this happened. They admit this is one of their tech department IP's. This is a edited LFD output. [QUOTE]Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 21:33:28 -0400 From: root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com To: root@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com Subject: lfd on xxxxxxxxxxx.com: WHM/cPanel root access alert from 75.125.126.8 (US/United States/isd01.hq.networklayer.com) Time: Thu May 8 21:33:28 2014 -0400 IP: 75.125.126.8 (US/United States/isd01.hq.networklayer.com) User: root
I went into the server via WHM and SSH and couldn't find anything unusual (no new accounts, no changed settings, no new passwd, groups, etc, nothing in tmp or anywhere else I could think of). So what I am wondering is what else can I check to see what they did or how long they were in there ? They didn't SSH or ftp, but they did go right into WHM with the correct password. I would like to find out more before someone at Softlayer starts changing things as it might just be a mistaken login or it could be someone at that company is using access to do something bad. thanks.

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  • cPanelMichael
    Hello :) You can review the cPanel access log here: /usr/local/cpanel/logs/access_log
    I suggest following up with them to have them investigate the source/reason for the login. Thank you.
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  • nyjimbo
    Right now they are thinking it was a tech error and they pulled up the wrong hardware info. I am seeing about 20 lines in the access_log and then nothing after it. All so far seem to be just logging in and out. Here is the output, not sure if it will format ok. root@xxxxxx [/usr/local/cpanel/logs]# tail -n 8000 access_log| grep "75.125.126.8" 75.125.126.8 - - [05/09/2014:01:33:24 -0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 401 0 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.48 Safari/537.36" "-" 75.125.126.8 - root [05/09/2014:01:33:27 -0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.48 Safari/537.36" "-" 75.125.126.8 - root [05/09/2014:01:33:27 -0000] "GET /cpsess8474402616/ HTTP/1.1" 401 0 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.48 Safari/537.36" "-" 75.125.126.8 - root [05/09/2014:01:33:34 -0000] "GET /cpsess8474402616/ HTTP/1.1" 401 0 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.48 Safari/537.36" "-" 75.125.126.8 - - [05/09/2014:01:33:36 -0000] "GET /cPanel_magic_revision_1365963166/unprotected/cpanel/style_v2_optimized.css HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "http://184.172.xxx.xxx:2086/cpsess8474402616/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.48 Safari/537.36" "-" 75.125.126.8 - - [05/09/2014:01:33:36 -0000] "GET /cPanel_magic_revision_1352936570/unprotected/cpanel/images/login-whisp.png HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "http://184.172.xxx.xxx:2086/cpsess8474402616/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.48 Safari/537.36" "-" 75.125.126.8 - - [05/09/2014:01:33:36 -0000] "GET /cPanel_magic_revision_1352936570/unprotected/cpanel/images/whm.png HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "http://184.172.xxx.xxx:2086/cpsess8474402616/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.48 Safari/537.36" "-" 75.125.126.8 - - [05/09/2014:01:33:36 -0000] "GET /cPanel_magic_revision_1329852020/unprotected/cpanel/images/icon-username.png HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "http://184.172.xxx.xxx:2086/cpsess8474402616/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.48 Safari/537.36" "-" 75.125.126.8 - - [05/09/2014:01:33:36 -0000] "GET /cPanel_magic_revision_1352936570/unprotected/cpanel/images/notice-error.png HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "http://184.172.xxx.xxx:2086/cpsess8474402616/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.48 Safari/537.36" "-" 75.125.126.8 - - [05/09/2014:01:33:36 -0000] "GET /cPanel_magic_revision_1329852020/unprotected/cpanel/images/icon-password.png HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "http://184.172.xxx.xxx:2086/cpsess8474402616/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.48 Safari/537.36" "-" 75.125.126.8 - - [05/09/2014:01:33:36 -0000] "GET /cPanel_magic_revision_1352936570/unprotected/cpanel/images/cpanel-logo-tiny.png HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "http://184.172.xxx.xxx:2086/cpsess8474402616/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.48 Safari/537.36" "-" 75.125.126.8 - - [05/09/2014:01:33:36 -0000] "GET /cPanel_magic_revision_1352936570/unprotected/cpanel/images/notice-info.png HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "http://184.172.xxx.xxx:2086/cpsess8474402616/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.48 Safari/537.36" "-" 75.125.126.8 - - [05/09/2014:01:33:36 -0000] "GET /cPanel_magic_revision_1352936570/unprotected/cpanel/images/notice-success.png HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "http://184.172.xxx.xxx:2086/cpsess8474402616/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.48 Safari/537.36" "-" 75.125.126.8 - - [05/09/2014:01:33:36 -0000] "GET /cPanel_magic_revision_1352936570/unprotected/cpanel/images/warning.png HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "http://184.172.xxx.xxx:2086/cpsess8474402616/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.48 Safari/537.36" "-" 75.125.126.8 - - [05/09/2014:01:33:37 -0000] "GET /cPanel_magic_revision_1328806045/unprotected/cpanel/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.48 Safari/537.36" "-" 75.125.126.8 - - [05/09/2014:01:33:38 -0000] "POST /login/?login_only=1 HTTP/1.1" 301 0 "http://184.172.xxx.xxx:2086/cpsess8474402616/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.48 Safari/537.36" "-" 75.125.126.8 - root [05/09/2014:01:33:38 -0000] "POST /login/?login_only=1 HTTP/1.1" 401 0 "http://184.172.xxx.xxx:2086/cpsess8474402616/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.48 Safari/537.36" "-" 75.125.126.8 - - [05/09/2014:01:33:44 -0000] "POST /login/?login_only=1 HTTP/1.1" 301 0 "http://184.172.xxx.xxx:2086/cpsess8474402616/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.48 Safari/537.36" "-" 75.125.126.8 - root [05/09/2014:01:33:44 -0000] "POST /login/?login_only=1 HTTP/1.1" 401 0 "http://184.172.xxx.xxx:2086/cpsess8474402616/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.48 Safari/537.36" "-" root@xxxxxx [/usr/local/cpanel/logs]#
    That's all there is in access_log so I am leaning towards this being an error. I will wait for more info as Softlayer says they will try to dig deeper.
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  • quizknows
    From that log, it looks like all they did was log in. I'd definitely expect an explanation from them even if it's "sorry, I logged into the wrong server"
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  • cPanelPeter cPanel Staff
    Hello, I agree with quizknows. I don't see anything odd within that log entry you posted, but they should definitely explain why they accessed your server (even if it was by accident).
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  • nyjimbo
    Softlayer admitted it was a mistake, "Sorry, wont happen again".
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