have i been hacked?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Apr 13 23:18:38 PDT 2004


On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 12:51:06AM -0400, dave wrote:
> Hello,
>     Wondering if a system on my network has been hacked? At approx 12:30
> this evening the hard disk went crazy, i have been out of town lately and
> have not checked any of the machines, when i did the CPU usage was at 15%
> which on this machine it never gets above 1 maybe 1.5. So i looked, and i
> had nearly 150 processes on the box, 9 running. When i got the daily run
> output i noticed the setuid files have changed. Wondering if this box got
> hacked and if so where to look to confirm this? And if so, what to do?
> Thanks.
> Dave.

This is what you'd expect if someone did a 'make world' on that box -
are you sure there were no other admins online who might have rebuilt
or updated it?  If so, then something stranger is going on.

Kris
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