-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone, The Packetstorm staff was recently notifed that a recent submission collected in the wild is a distribution vector for the Linux.Jac.8759 virus. We realise that many in the security reseach community regularly mirror the site or frequently use it, so a post to the lists seemed appropriate. The following appears at http://packetstormsecurity.nl/73501867.html (our dutch distribution mirror). While we make efforts to ensure that we do not mislabel artifacts, this one appears to have slipped through the process, and we apologise for the inconvience this may have caused. === On May 5, a file was added to Packet Storm which was found to contain a linux virus known as Linux.Jac.8759. The file, 73501867, is an exploit for PHP in binary form. While not particularly dangerous, it does infect all ELF binaries in the current directory when run. More information on this virus can be found here. The exploit was submitted by a well meaning security researcher who obtained the binary in the wild. The PacketStorm Staff apologizes for any inconvenience. ==== Yours sincerly Emerson Tan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBPNWevliWWi7iPQWtEQKALQCfaw9zizayMLK9QFC5JwZCtOTzDIAAoKaR ON6KdXqYUC8iCmgcbJ1Qa5Ws =7Re6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- *** "Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries." --Chistopher Morley, "The Haunted Bookshop" Emerson Tan http://www.packetstormsecurity.org nutterat_private directorat_private PGP public key from http://pgpkeys.mit.edu, or on request PGP key fingerprint: 7A34 BF8D F7AB A6FC F242 80F9 5896 5A2E E23D 05AD
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