Questions tagged [rootkit]
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Check all debian binaries against the checksum of the original
I would like to check all binaries on my server against
dpkg -e
(for example rkhunter could do this check against the originals when doing probupdate)
How could I check all packages with one script?

rubo77
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Suspicious file types found in /dev ASCII text
rkhunter complains about this:
Warning: Suspicious file types found in /dev:
/dev/.udev/queue.bin: data
/dev/.udev/data/c13:66: ASCII text
/dev/.udev/data/c13:64: ASCII text
/dev/.udev/data/c13:65: ASCII text
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rubo77
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RKHunter reports change in file properties, but different hash length
RKHunter reports change in file properties, but the strange thing is that the hash length is different in the current hash an in the stored hash.
[11:47:13] Warning: The file properties have changed:
[11:47:13] File:…

Zhen
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remove shared library from sshd
mv /lib64/libkeyutils.so.1.9 /root
service sshd restart
Stopping sshd: [ OK ]
Starting sshd: /usr/sbin/sshd: error while loading shared libraries: libkeyutils.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No…

Tiffany Walker
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How to keep track of the serverconfiguration: keep entire "/etc" in git
I want to keep my whole /etc folder in a git repository to track unauthorised changes by intruders and find out mistakes I could have done myself.
What would be the right way to achieve this?

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My computer is sending ICMP packets to arbitrary destinations
My computer is sending ICMP packets to arbitrary destinations. I can't understand the reason. Dump of one of the packet is :
Internet Control Message Protocol
Type: 3 (Destination unreachable)
Code: 3 (Port unreachable)
Checksum: 0x811b…

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Recognize rootkit-taken server
First, I'm not looking for software for detection of rootkits planted into server, as this may and may not work, especially on live system.
I'm curious to find out what would be the signs of rootkit takeover of one server. At least what damage and…

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Are rkhunter and chrootkit still effective linux rootkit scanners?
AFAICT neither have had much activity since the first half of 2014. Are there any other open source linux root scanners out there or reasonable commercial alternatives?

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How to prevent wunderbar_emporium rootkit
I just learned about the wunderbar_emporium rootkit, and it sounds pretty nasty. I tested it on a few linux servers I have access to, and while it failed on two of them, it was successful on one with kernel 2.6.9-78.0.13.ELsmp. What's the best way…

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Find a script which writes in /var/tmp
I discover that one of my partition was full.
rootfs 20G 1,8G 17G 10% /
/dev/root 20G 1,8G 17G 10% /
devtmpfs 7,8G 184K 7,8G 1% /dev
none 7,8G 0 7,8G 0% /dev/shm
none …

Raphaël
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Rkhunter triggered last night warning for a possible infection. What next?
Last night rkhunter triggered with the following warnings:
[04:10:23] Warning: Network TCP port 32982 is being used by /usr/lib/apache2/mpm-prefork/apache2. Possible rootkit: Solaris Wanuk
Use the 'lsof -i' or 'netstat -an' command to…

Luuk D. Jansen
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Squid showed up on port 8080. Possible Rootkit?
I recently attempted to connect to my EC2 server on 8080 and had some strange issues that weren't occurring earlier.
NGinx (though setup for :81) captures any requests on port 8080.
If I stop nginx,
I get a "Connection Refused" message from a…

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running a high CPU consuming process, but top/htop show ALL process cpu 0%?
all. I have these weird servers can not explained as follow:
htop
1 [||||||||||||||| 28.5%] Tasks: 53 total, 1 running
2 [|||||||||||||||| 31.1%] Load average: 0.00 0.00 0.00
3 …

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What is "ndptsp.tsp"?
Sophos Anti-Rootkit tells me that on one of our web servers, there is an "unknown hidden file" ndptsp.tsp:
Area: Local hard drives
Description: Unknown hidden file
Location: C:\Windows\System32\ndptsp.tsp
Removable: Yes (but clean up…

Uwe Keim
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HOw to view all Logs in OSSSEC system ubuntu
I have installed OSSEC
It is working and sometime sending me alert email as well.
But i want to see what can i type so that i can get view all the logs of what OSSEC has found in my system
John