Re: Need to rootkit a machine

From: abuse (abuseat_private)
Date: Mon Sep 23 2002 - 08:25:02 PDT

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    You could grab one of the old 'scans of the month' from the honeynet project.
    
    http://project.honeynet.org/misc/chall.html
    
    
    mike
    
    
    At 08:39 AM 9/18/2002 -0700, Mark Morrissey wrote:
    
    >I am teaching a class in computer forensics this fall term and want to
    >give an assignment for students to investigate a machine that has been
    >compromised. I would like the machine to have been compromised by me using
    >a rootkit that includes at least some source. I have an image of a system
    >that was compromised with t0rn, but the images are all too large to be
    >easily used.
    >
    >My plan is to build a linux system using very small (about 200 MB) disks.
    >The idea is then to rootkit this machine from another box. I'll put them
    >on a private network so that I can be sure it was me who did the
    >compromising. I'll then make the hard drives available on a different
    >machine (unmounted) and let the students begin with imaging drives and go
    >all the way through report writing.
    >
    >Does anyone know of a rootkit that has at least some source that would be
    >good for this. I can build the machine from any version linux 6.0 or
    >above. The reason for the source code is that I intend to shut down the
    >compromised machine after deleting the source tree so that there is source
    >code as well as binaries in the deleted space.
    >
    >Of course, I could be slightly insane, but that's another issue...
    >
    >--mark
    >---
    >Mark Morrissey                  markemat_private
    >Lecturer in Computer Science    www.cs.pdx.edu/~markem
    >
    >
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