Misconfiguration is not novel. However, cybercriminals still find that it is an effective way to get their hands on organizations’ computing resources to use for malicious purposes and it remains a top security concern. In this blog post, we will detail an attack type where an API misconfiguration in the open-source version of the popular DevOps tool Docker Engine-Community allows attackers to infiltrate containers and run a variant (detected by Trend Micro as Backdoor.Linux.DOFLOO.AA) of the Linux botnet malware AESDDoS caught by our honeypots.
Docker APIs that run on container hosts allow the hosts to receive all container-related commands that the daemon, which runs with root permission, will execute. Allowing external access — whether intentionally or by misconfiguration — to API ports allows attackers to gain ownership of the host, giving them the ability to poison instances running within it with malware and to gain remote access to users’ servers and hardware resources. Previously, we have seen how exposed Docker hosts can be taken advantage of by cybercriminals, such as deploying cryptocurrency-mining malware.
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Source: Trend Micro