sequences in the auth.log

Nikolay Pavlov quetzal at roks.biz
Wed Aug 18 02:54:46 PDT 2004


Hi, Justin

On Tuesday, 17 August 2004 at 23:01:28 -0500, Justin wrote:
> I'm seeing the same thing in my log. It makes me think it is a virus because 
> test, guest, and admin are not normal unix users.

And I'm too. But I think that this is a some kind of Linux worm.
The first record in my auth.log dated on Jul 23 01:48:30
Nmap identificates all hosts (already more than ten) in my auth.log as 
"Linux 2.4.0 - 2.5.20, Linux 2.4.20 (Itanium), Linux 2.4.20 - 2.4.22 w/grsecurity.org patch"

Best regards,
	Nikolay Pavlov.


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