[squid-users] Squid Proxy Hijacked By Hackers in China

Hi,

My server was brought down by a group in China who were able to use my squid proxy to send and receive requests from their IPs. There were over 370 IPs hitting my server. I'm wondering where I went wrong and what I need to fix to prevent this in the future? Below are a snippet from my cache.log and my squid.conf file with IP obfuscated. One thing I noticed was that they connected through port 443, which I have in my Safe_Ports list. Should I remove all of those ports from my safe list?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,

Chris-

My cache.log file
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2008/05/27 01:36:21| The request CONNECT 205.188.153.121:443 is DENIED, because it matched 'all'
2008/05/27 01:36:21| The reply for CONNECT 205.188.153.121:443 is ALLOWED, because it matched 'all'
2008/05/27 01:36:21| The request GET http://ad.media-servers.net/st?ad_type=pop&ad_s...ed_pop_types=29&pop_times=1&pop_frequency=0$
2008/05/27 01:36:22| The request GET http://ad.media-servers.net/st?ad_type=pop&ad_s...ed_pop_types=29&pop_times=1&pop_frequency=0$
2008/05/27 01:36:22| The request GET http://202.86.6.132/config?.redir_from=?&.tries=...ntl=us&.bypass=&.partner=&.chkP=Y&.done=ht$
2008/05/27 01:36:22| The reply for GET http://ad.media-servers.net/st?ad_type=pop&ad_...size=053&banned_pop_tyimes=1&pop_frequency$
2008/05/27 01:36:22| The request GET http://www.clickclickclick.com:80/default.asp is ALLOWED, because it matched 'port80'
2008/05/27 01:36:22| The request GET http://203.209.228.245/isp_verify_user?l=_Dave_M_&p=ty is ALLOWED, because it matched 'port80'
2008/05/27 01:36:22| The request POST http://fly.emirates.com/IBE/SearchAvailability.aspx is ALLOWED, because it matched 'port80'
2008/05/27 01:36:22| The request GET http://edit.in.yahoo.com/config/loginpasswd=23131&.save=1 is ALLOWED, because it matched 'por$
2008/05/27 01:36:22| The request GET http://fly.emirates.com/ is ALLOWED, because it matched 'port80'
2008/05/27 01:36:22| The reply for GET http://ad.media-servers.net/st?ad_type=pop&adtion=24_pop_types=29&pop_times=1&pop_frequency$
2008/05/27 01:36:22| The request POST http://fly.emirates.com/IBE/SearchAvailability.aspx is ALLOWED, because it matched 'port80'
2008/05/27 01:36:22| The request POST http://mihen.info/Res/CheckProxy.php is ALLOWED, because it matched 'port80'
2008/05/27 01:36:22| The request GET http://fly.emirates.com/ is ALLOWED, because it matched 'port80'
2008/05/27 01:36:22| storeLateRelease: released 0 objects
and on and on...

My Squid Config File:
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http_port XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:80 defaultsite=www.mysite.com vhost
cache_peer 127.0.0.1 parent 80 0 no-query originserver name=server_1 login=PASS
cache_peer_domain server_1 .mysite.com mysite.com
hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
cache deny QUERY
acl apache rep_header Server ^Apache
broken_vary_encoding allow apache
access_log /var/log/squid/access.log squid
debug_options ALL,1 33,2
hosts_file /etc/hosts
url_rewrite_host_header off
refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
acl manager proto cache_object
acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8
acl SSL_ports port 443 563 # https, snews
acl SSL_ports port 873 # rsync
acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
acl Safe_ports port 443 563 # https, snews
acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
acl Safe_ports port 631 # cups
acl Safe_ports port 873 # rsync
acl Safe_ports port 901 # SWAT
acl purge method PURGE
acl port80 port 80
acl CONNECT method CONNECT
http_access allow manager localhost
http_access deny manager
http_access allow purge localhost
http_access deny purge
http_access deny !Safe_ports
http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
http_access deny to_localhost
http_access allow port80
http_access allow localhost
http_access deny all
http_reply_access allow all
icp_access allow all
visible_hostname www.mysite.com
coredump_dir /var/spool/squid
Received on Tue May 27 2008 - 10:58:17 MDT