From: Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Did I just get hacked???
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 04:29:24 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eqm633$b3b$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8d634f4f0702102006w78f419acp14ddc64a8652693d@mail.gmail.com
On 2007-02-11, Chris Nolan <lostpkts@gmail.com> wrote:
> A long time ago when a LAMP box of mine got hacked.. they installed a
> program in /tmp/<random characters> that would connect to IRC
> servers. Basicly they made my box a bot. The way I found it was I
> saw outgoing IRC connections when I was in netstat looking for
> something else.
>
> They got me thorugh and expolit in awstats which I no longer run.
> The only way I was sure that I got rid of the hack was I wiped and
> reloaded the machine from scratch.
>
> Long of it is.. check for odd processes as well.
A good rootkit will install a "ps" that won't show the 'bot
processes. The one time a machine of mine got hacked, netstat
still worked, but I don't know why a hacked netstat couldn't be
installed as well.
Looking through /proc/<pid> is probably still reliable.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-11 5:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-11 2:27 [gentoo-user] Did I just get hacked??? Grant
2007-02-11 3:06 ` Jerry McBride
2007-02-11 4:11 ` Grant
2007-02-11 3:38 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-02-11 4:06 ` Chris Nolan
2007-02-11 4:29 ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2007-02-11 21:16 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2007-02-12 0:31 ` Grant
2007-02-12 6:02 ` Paul Sebastian Ziegler
2007-02-12 13:30 ` Shawn Singh
2007-02-12 13:35 ` Shawn Singh
2007-02-12 3:58 ` Grant
2007-02-12 15:32 ` Dan Farrell
2007-02-12 16:33 ` Willie Wong
2007-02-12 18:05 ` Grant
2007-02-13 8:07 ` nicolas.cornu
2007-02-22 23:34 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant
2007-02-23 0:51 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-02-23 17:48 ` Andrey Gerasimenko
2007-02-23 18:47 ` Neil Bothwick
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