Re: SSH Trojan found on my system, request more info on identification

From: Alec Kosky (alecat_private)
Date: Mon Oct 28 2002 - 13:18:45 PST

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       Hello,
    
          Recently, certain OpenSSH's distributions were hacked and trojaned files
       were inserted into the packages. Here is the link from the openssh.org
       site:
    
          http://www.openssh.org/txt/trojan.adv
    
       Hope that this helps.
    
       --Alec Kosky--
       alecat_private
    
    
    
    On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 20:55:09 -0500 "Erick Arturo Perez Huemer" <eperezat_private> wrote:
    
    >  
    >  Sirs, the attached ssh trojan was found on one of the systems 
    >  connected to our network.
    >  MD5: 474b2cc161dd428de6226914ba48281f
    >  
    >  Details:
    >  Machine:Linux Mandrake release 8.0 (Traktopel) for i586
    >  Primary use: Mail Server with remote admin via SSH.
    >  Original SSH server was disabled:  OpenSSH_2.5.2p2
    >  Trojan Listen on port 65298 TCP
    >  Installed as /usr/sbin/mingetty
    >  Banner: SSH-1.5-Dragos's Empire Inc.
    >  Chkrootkit -r /usr/sbin detected nothing
    >  Chkrootkit -r / detected nothing
    >  Chkrootkit -r /usr/sbin/ mingetty detected nothing
    >  
    >  Lsof Output:
    >  [root@mail temp]# lsof -p 23256
    >  COMMAND    PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE    SIZE NODE NAME
    >  mingetty 23256 root  cwd    DIR    3,1     408    2 /
    >  mingetty 23256 root  rtd    DIR    3,1     408    2 /
    >  mingetty 23256 root  txt    REG    3,6  654387 6455 /usr/sbin/mingetty
    >  mingetty 23256 root  mem    REG    3,1  420778   67 /lib/ld-2.2.2.so
    >  mingetty 23256 root  mem    REG    3,1   78208   80 
    >  /lib/libnsl-2.2.2.so
    >  mingetty 23256 root  mem    REG    3,1   21812   74 
    >  /lib/libcrypt-2.2.2.so
    >  mingetty 23256 root  mem    REG    3,1    8284  102 
    >  /lib/libutil-2.2.2.so
    >  mingetty 23256 root  mem    REG    3,1 1216268   72 /lib/libc-2.2.2.so
    >  mingetty 23256 root    0u   CHR    1,3           62 /dev/null
    >  mingetty 23256 root    1u   CHR    1,3           62 /dev/null
    >  mingetty 23256 root    2u   CHR    1,3           62 /dev/null
    >  mingetty 23256 root    3u   CHR    5,1         4838 /dev/console
    >  mingetty 23256 root    4u   CHR    5,1         4838 /dev/console
    >  mingetty 23256 root    5u   CHR    5,1         4838 /dev/console
    >  mingetty 23256 root    6u  IPv4 122992          TCP *:65298 (LISTEN)
    >  mingetty 23256 root   21w  FIFO    0,0           16 pipe
    >  [root@mail temp]#
    >  
    >  Any help will be appreciated to grab further info on this.
    > 
    > PD. The executablwe is about 650 Kb so I cannot attach it to this
    > message. Even a .tar is about 200k, so anyone who wants to see it, email
    > me and i wil lsend it..
    > Thanks,
    >  
    >  Erick A. Perez H.
    >  
    > 
    > 
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