Le lundi 4 août 2008, Adam Hardy a écrit :
> Adam Hardy on 03/08/08 14:13, wrote:
> > My webserver system is actually a UML slice of a system at
> > memset.co.uk and all it does is run Apache Tomcat and sshd and the
> > stuff from memset - I thought it was pretty safe until I came back
> > today and found my nightly email report from chkrootkit said:
> >
> > The following suspicious files and directories were found:
> > /lib/init/rw/.ramfs
> >
> > INFECTED (PORTS:  2881)
> >
> > The .ramfs started appearing when I upgraded chkrootkit, so I never
> > worried about it, but Friday night's INFECTED alert was a slap in
> > the face with a wet fish. Saturday night's report went back to
> > normal - no mention of the port.
> >
> > I scanned it from grc.com/x/portprobe and it came back as closed.
> >
> > The only mention I can find in the logs is:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# grep 2881 /var/log/*
> > /var/log/setuid.today:
> >     2881   660   1 root       disk               0 Wed Apr 30
> > 11:32:37 2008 /dev/rd/c1d30
> > r
> >
> > and that's a PID, not a port, right?
> >
> > So how bad does this look? Should I clean the system? If it is
> > rooted, how can I tell what the security flaw was? My password at
> > that point (since changed) was CE0dff2*£ so if it was a brute force
> > attack, then wow, they did well.
>
> I talked to the support at the hosting company and they looked at the
> system and said they couldn't see anything wrong with it - but they
> can re-image it for me which normally costs a fee.
>
> Is it worth re-imaging my system and re-installing everything?
>
> I still have no idea what chkrootkit means when it says a port is
> infected.
>
>
> Adam

I don't think it's that important. chkrootkit seems a little hazardous 
since there was a bug about chkrootkit killing a random process (in 
fact one of its test was sending a signal to process 12345, this bug 
has been corrected).

I think a good anti-rootkit should be launched from another system to be 
sure it's not deactivated by a smart rootkit.

Regards,

Thomas Preud'homme

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