Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-19 Thread Jesper Dybdal
On 2023-04-18 21:35, David Christensen wrote: On 4/18/23 06:43, Jesper Dybdal wrote: On 2023-04-16 14:19, I wrote: ... And there in the bash history were 4 lines that I had not written :-( To summarize: * Greg has convincingly argued that there is no way for the running shell to get

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-18 Thread David Christensen
On 4/18/23 06:43, Jesper Dybdal wrote: On 2023-04-16 14:19, I wrote: ... And there in the bash history were 4 lines that I had not written :-( To summarize: * Greg has convincingly argued that there is no way for the running shell to get those lines into its history, other than by issuing

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-18 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 06:22:16PM +0200, Michel Verdier wrote: > I recently learned the ctrl-r key which launch a regex search in > history. It's more powerful than ! as it search the full > lines so not only commands but also parameters. Now step in to the late 2010s and look into "fzf"

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-18 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 18 avril 2023 songbird a écrit : > i like to start with a known state including the shell history > so upon starting up a terminal i determine what commands i want > in the history by detecting which directory i'm in (which tells > me which project i'm working on). it's very easy then for

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-18 Thread songbird
wrote: ... > Definitely. I just pointed that out as a request for discussion. > Perhaps this isn't portable across shells or even different > versions of bash. So caveat emptor :) > > Cheers and thanks -- I didn't know about HISTTIMEFORMAT before! just as an aside for those who think about

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 22:07:16 +0800 Jeremy Ardley wrote: > The only way to be sure you are secure is to check the client list on > the router. If you have something you don't recognise then that may > be an intruder. You might also look into arpwatch and arpalert. -- Does anybody read

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-18 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 18/4/23 21:36, Jesper Dybdal wrote: Is it secured with wpa2? Yes.  The password is not easy to guess, and the neighbors do not know it.  I think (but I may remember that incorrectly) that I checked the log file in the access point and found nothing suspicious. Coincidentally I was

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-18 Thread Jesper Dybdal
On 2023-04-18 10:25, Richmond wrote: It's a long shot, but does either computer have wifi? Those two computers do not, but the LAN they're connected to does have a WiFi access point.  So yes, if anybody could access the LAN through the WiFi and find a security hole in Windows to exploit,

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-18 Thread Jesper Dybdal
On 2023-04-18 07:29, David wrote: On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 at 04:42, David Wright wrote: There is an option to timestamp entries in the history file. I've never used it, nor heard of its being used. That might disambiguate things if you ever suspect it might happen again. Hi, on my machines I use

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-18 Thread Jesper Dybdal
On 2023-04-16 14:19, I wrote: ... And there in the bash history were 4 lines that I had not written :-( To summarize: * Greg has convincingly argued that there is no way for the running shell to get those lines into its history, other than by issuing them over the ssh connection. * We can

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-18 Thread tomas
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 11:59:58AM +, David wrote: > On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 at 07:51, wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 05:29:43AM +, David wrote: [...] > > > The colon and semicolon allow the timestamp > > > to function as a no-operation command. > > > > At least in bash, this doesn't

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-18 Thread David
On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 at 07:51, wrote: > On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 05:29:43AM +, David wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 at 04:42, David Wright wrote: > > > There is an option to timestamp entries in the history file. I've > > > never used it, nor heard of its being used. That might disambiguate >

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-18 Thread tomas
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 11:51:42AM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > wrote: [...] > > At least in bash, this doesn't seem necessary, as you are > > only seeing an external representation: internally, bash > > keeps the timestamp separate (as happens to the seq number, > > too). > > >

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-18 Thread debian-user
wrote: > On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 05:29:43AM +, David wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 at 04:42, David Wright > > wrote: > > > There is an option to timestamp entries in the history file. I've > > > never used it, nor heard of its being used. That might > > > disambiguate things if you ever

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-18 Thread Richmond
It's a long shot, but does either computer have wifi? Is it secured with wpa2?

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-18 Thread tomas
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 05:29:43AM +, David wrote: > On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 at 04:42, David Wright wrote: > > > There is an option to timestamp entries in the history file. I've > > never used it, nor heard of its being used. That might disambiguate > > things if you ever suspect it might

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-17 Thread David
On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 at 04:42, David Wright wrote: > There is an option to timestamp entries in the history file. I've > never used it, nor heard of its being used. That might disambiguate > things if you ever suspect it might happen again. Hi, on my machines I use Bash as interactive shell,

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-17 Thread David Wright
On Sun 16 Apr 2023 at 16:39:13 (+0200), Jesper Dybdal wrote: > On 2023-04-16 16:33, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 16 Apr 2023 at 14:19:34 (+0200), Jesper Dybdal wrote: > > > The 4 lines were: > > > > md5users > > > > sp md5users > > > > sp /x/md5users > > > > ps /x/md5users > > > > > Just FTR

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-17 Thread Tim Woodall
On Mon, 17 Apr 2023, Stefan Monnier wrote: That said, using one computer as router, firewall, file server, name server, web server, and more represents "all of your eggs in one basket". I suggest using dedicated hardware for networking, network segmentation (e.g. DMZ), and kernel or hypervisor

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> That said, using one computer as router, firewall, file server, name server, > web server, and more represents "all of your eggs in one basket". I suggest > using dedicated hardware for networking, network segmentation (e.g. DMZ), > and kernel or hypervisor compartmentalization of services.

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-17 Thread Curt
On 2023-04-16, Jesper Dybdal wrote: > > On 2023-04-16 15:08, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 02:19:34PM +0200, Jesper Dybdal wrote: >>> And there in the bash history were 4 lines that I had not written :-( >> I would initially ask "who else lives with you" > > So would I - if

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-17 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 17 avril 2023 David Christensen a écrit : > That said, using one computer as router, firewall, file server, name server, > web server, and more represents "all of your eggs in one basket". I suggest > using dedicated hardware for networking, network segmentation (e.g. DMZ), and > kernel or

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-16 Thread David Christensen
On 4/16/23 05:19, Jesper Dybdal wrote: I have a Debian pc functioning as router, firewall, file server, name server, webserver, ... It has very recently been upgraded to Bullseye. On the internal network I have a Windows 10 pc. And there in the bash history were 4 lines that I had not

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-16 Thread Jesper Dybdal
On 2023-04-16 19:35, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, to make this mail on-topic: Jesper Dybdal, do you see the riddling lines in file ~/.bash_history of the superuser ? Yes. If so: Do you see other strange lines there ? (Do they give more clue ?) No.  I stupidly did not save the rest of

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-16 Thread David Wright
On Sun 16 Apr 2023 at 19:35:20 (+0200), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Jesper Dybdal, do you see the riddling lines in file ~/.bash_history > of the superuser ? > If so: Do you see other strange lines there ? (Do they give more clue ?) > > > A bit less on-topic: > > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Bash

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, to make this mail on-topic: Jesper Dybdal, do you see the riddling lines in file ~/.bash_history of the superuser ? If so: Do you see other strange lines there ? (Do they give more clue ?) A bit less on-topic: Greg Wooledge wrote: > Bash doesn't read the contents of the history file into

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-16 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 16 avril 2023 Jesper Dybdal a écrit : > The question then remains: what to do with the Windows system before I dare > run a root ssh session from that machine again?  Perhaps restore a backup, but > from when? As you don't know *how* you can't guess *when* and should reinstall from scratch.

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-16 Thread Jesper Dybdal
On 2023-04-16 17:57, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 04:30:51PM +0200, Jesper Dybdal wrote: My .bashrc has: export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth and that's all.  And your description of the default behaviour matches what I experience with bash. There is simply no scenario where all of

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 04:30:51PM +0200, Jesper Dybdal wrote: > On 2023-04-16 15:08, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > (Have you altered root's bash history configuration on that Debian system? > > If so, how?) > My .bashrc has: > > export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth > > and that's all.  And your description

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-16 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 16 avril 2023 Jesper Dybdal a écrit : >> Perhaps a bot trying to execute some commands. As they do not apply to >> debian you debian machine should not be compromised. > Unless the malware on the windows machine is smart enough to use my secret key > and decrypt it with a password retrieved

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-16 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 16 avril 2023 Greg Wooledge a écrit : > Do you mean that if you open two simultaneous bash sessions, and type > a command into Session A, that it immediately appears in the history > of Session B? (Or, immediately after hitting Enter in Session B, maybe.) Ok I understand. I was meaning bash

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-16 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 04:39:13PM +0200, Jesper Dybdal wrote: > > On 2023-04-16 16:33, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 16 Apr 2023 at 14:19:34 (+0200), Jesper Dybdal wrote: > > > The 4 lines were: > > > > md5users > > > > sp md5users > > > > sp /x/md5users > > > > ps /x/md5users > > > > > Just

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 10:08 AM Jesper Dybdal wrote: > ... > In the long term, now that I'm retired, I hope to drop Windows > completely - but not quite today :-). ++ My family went Windows-free about 2014. Grandparents, parents and me are all using Linux. I cut them over to Linux because of

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-16 Thread Jesper Dybdal
On 2023-04-16 16:33, David Wright wrote: On Sun 16 Apr 2023 at 14:19:34 (+0200), Jesper Dybdal wrote: The 4 lines were: md5users sp md5users sp /x/md5users ps /x/md5users Just FTR and clarity's sake, are the "> " characters (which my MUA has unhelpfully doubled by quoting) part of what

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-16 Thread David Wright
On Sun 16 Apr 2023 at 14:19:34 (+0200), Jesper Dybdal wrote: > And there in the bash history were 4 lines that I had not written :-( > > I am certain that nobody had been in my apartment while I was gone. > And even if they had, nobody with a key to my apartment would dream of > writing things

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-16 Thread Jesper Dybdal
On 2023-04-16 15:08, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 02:19:34PM +0200, Jesper Dybdal wrote: And there in the bash history were 4 lines that I had not written :-( I would initially ask "who else lives with you" So would I - if I didn't know that the few people with physical

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-16 Thread Jesper Dybdal
On 2023-04-16 14:59, Michel Verdier wrote: Le 16 avril 2023 Jesper Dybdal a écrit : I have scanned the Windows machine with two antivirus tools (Windows defender and Malwarebytes). Can you use clamav on windows ? I hadn't thought of that. I'll check. modules.dep modules.devname

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-16 Thread Jesper Dybdal
On 2023-04-16 14:40, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 16/04/2023 09:19, Jesper Dybdal wrote: And there in the bash history were 4 lines that I had not written :-( I am certain that nobody had been in my apartment while I was gone. And even if they had, nobody with a key to my apartment would

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 03:11:07PM +0200, Michel Verdier wrote: > I don't remember changing default for that and my bash shares between > sessions. (NOTE: this is NOT the OP!) (Deletes a whole reply.) OK, not-the-OP... your statement that bash "shares between sessions" is extremely ambiguous.

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-16 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 16 avril 2023 Eduardo M. KALINOWSKI a écrit : > Which shell do you use, and how is it configured? Note that bash by default > does not share history between sessions, so even if someone logged in as root > (via other ssh session) and typed them, they would not appear in your ssh > session. I

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 02:19:34PM +0200, Jesper Dybdal wrote: > The windows machine had an ssh connection to the Debian machine (using > PuTTY), logged in as root on the Debian machine. > I then went for a walk with the dog, leaving the ssh session running. > When I came back, I wanted to

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-16 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 16 avril 2023 Jesper Dybdal a écrit : > I have scanned the Windows machine with two antivirus tools (Windows defender > and Malwarebytes). Can you use clamav on windows ? >> modules.dep >> modules.devname >> modules.symbols.bin >> modules.symbols >> modules.builtin.bin >> modules.alias.bin

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-16 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 16/04/2023 09:19, Jesper Dybdal wrote: And there in the bash history were 4 lines that I had not written :-( I am certain that nobody had been in my apartment while I was gone. And even if they had, nobody with a key to my apartment would dream of writing things like the 4 lines that I

Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-16 Thread Jesper Dybdal
I have a Debian pc functioning as router, firewall, file server, name server, webserver, ... It has very recently been upgraded to Bullseye. On the internal network I have a Windows 10 pc. A few days after the Debian upgrade, I had the following strange experience: The windows machine had an