Re: Solaris script kiddie incident

From: Yiming Gong (yimingat_private)
Date: Wed May 09 2001 - 23:09:22 PDT

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    I think first you should display us what services you server are now runing,
    Perhaps exploit of snmpdx or bind?
    Give us you system configuration  detailed.
    
    >Greetings,
    >  we had a root compromise on a Solaris server recently: On Apr 30
    >23:30 US Eastern time, a regular user account 'game' and a root
    >account 'nois' were added to /etc/passwd ... then the intruder
    >logged in and su'd to root
    >
    >from the lastlog:
    >
    >--snip------------------------------------------------------------
    >game      pts/0        200.190.14.66    Mon Apr 30 23:30 - 23:32  (00:01)
    >--snap------------------------------------------------------------
    >
    >from the syslog:
    >
    >--snip------------------------------------------------------------
    >Apr 30 23:30:23 tarsus.cisto.org su: 'su nois' succeeded for game on /dev/pts/0
    >--snap------------------------------------------------------------
    >
    >So far we have not been able to find any trojan/root-kit etc.
    >The obvious logfile entries suggest that it may have been a
    >"script kiddie" rather than a knowledgeable hacker.
    >
    >Is anyone aware of an intrusion tool that creates 'game'/'nois'
    >accounts?  I'd really like to know how the hacker got in... :-)
    >
    >Greetings, Norbert.
    >
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                Yiming Gong
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