Re: chkrootkit & FBSD-5

From: Brooks Davis (brooks@one-eyed-alien.net)
Date: 01/28/03


Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:36:45 -0800
From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: Sascha Luck <bofh@online.ie>


On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:16:07PM +0000, Sascha Luck wrote:
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> Hello all,
>
> on my CURRENT boxes, chkrootkit (v0.38) reports the following binaries
> as INFECTED:
>
> chfn
> chsh
> date
> ls
> ps
>
> as well as 7 hidden PIDs.
>
> recompiling/reinstalling the binaries seems to have no effect. I'm
> tempted to regard these as false positives - anyone else notice this
> behaviour?

Someone else mentioned it to me. They now contain the string "/bin/sh"
which chkrootkit looks for. I'd be curious to know why they do.

-- Brooks

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