chkrootkir LKM Trojan ?
Dave S
ubuntu at pusspaws.net
Sun Jul 16 08:26:57 UTC 2006
I just had an email from chkrootkit last night -
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The following suspicious files and directories were found:
You have 3 process hidden for readdir command
You have 3 process hidden for ps command
chkproc: Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed
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Running chkrootkit now and all is OK
root at dave-comp:~#
root at dave-comp:~# chkrootkit | grep chkproc
Checking `lkm'... chkproc: nothing detected
root at dave-comp:~#
I have even 'sudo install --reinstall chkrootkit' in case its binarys have
been modified (paranoid)
Running rkhunter shows no problems
I am at a bit off a loss and would value some advice / opinions. I can see two
possibilities
(a) I have a trojan, seems unlikely I am behind a netgear router firewall NAT
with no incoming ports open. Running nothing more than samba, ssh and unison
on the local network though I have to admit I have not hardened my system.
(b) Its a false alarm - it is called by /etc/cron.daily so a lot of different
scripts are called at the same time - though I have no idea what could have
caused it.
Any help / advice greatfully received
Dave
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