Re: exploit or human

Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.incidents
Organization bgSEC
Message-ID <[email protected]>
El jue, 31-03-2005 a las 17:59 -0300, Eduardo Kienetz escribió:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:14:49 +0200, Victor Calzado <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Valentin Avram wrote:
> > 
> > >Hello.
> > >
> > >Most of the symptoms you describe and the "sudden" falling of more
> > >systems does point to a rootkit that was installed on the first
> > >compromised machine (FC2). That machine might have been later used to
> > >gain access to the other servers in your network.
> > ...
> > >Also the failure to restart the server
> > >usually is a consequence of that. One way to make that sure is to get
> > >the hdd from the possibly compromised machine, put it on an offline
> > >system which has rkhunter (or other rootkit-detection software)
> > >installed and check it. After the signs you described, it quite very
> > >probably you'll find a rootkit.
> > >
> > >RH's before RHEL are ok (from the stability point of view) as long as
> > >you keep the exposed services uptodate (recompilation from source).
> > >Don't use the old software they come with, cause you might just open a
> > >door to your system.
> >...
> > I'm sorry but probably you will find more infected systems all over your
> > network. You will probably need to reinstall every compromised server
> > and any content recovered from an "infected" system should be scanned
> > for viri and checked for rootkits.
> 
> Run chkrootkit: http://www.chkrootkit.org
> 
> Regards,

Or try rkhunter: http://www.rootkit.nl/
It's a more advanced program to detect rootkits
than chkrootkit, and can be updated online.

Regards.

-- 

Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez
Director Tecnico de bgSEC
[email protected]
bgSEC Seguridad y Consultoria de Sistemas Informaticos
http://www.bgsec.com
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