Re: [SLUG] LKM rootkits

From: Derek Glidden (dglidden@illusionary.com)
Date: Wed Feb 26 2003 - 16:00:16 EST


On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 15:48, Ian C. Blenke wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 February 2003 15:36, Kai Lien wrote:
> > One of our boxes got hack two nights ago. I believe it was LKM and
> > chkrootkit agrees also. I suspected that the cracker was using port 443
> > (https) to access the box since nmap from another box did not show any
> > suspectable ports. I believe the cracker had used a bindtty.c utility to
> > get a telnet prompt on tty1 using port 443. chkrootkit shows there were 1
> > process hidden from ps command and 1 process hidden from readdir command.
> >
> > What tools are available to find out these hidden process?
> >
> > I tried to compile knarkfind.c, but it errors out.
> >
> > Ian or any linux gurus out there?
>
> Once you find that you've been rootkitted, rebuild your box. You can no longer
> trust anything on that install. It's that simple, really.
>
> Alternatively, if you *had* been using a tripwire system like Integrit and
> have the "known good" list of file hashes before you were owned, it might be
> possible to check what files have been changed and with some care you might
> be able to trust that box again. But I wouldn't.
>
> Seriously, rebuild that box.

P.S. Ian and I had no communication prior to us both answering your
question in almost identical fashion; even to the extent of using some
of the same words.

We're just both really, REALLY cool.

;)

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