Re: trojaned SSHD ?

From: Dr. Ernst-Udo Wallenborn (euw@mail.deuba.com)
Date: 09/21/01


Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:31:42 +0200 (CEST)
From: "Dr. Ernst-Udo Wallenborn" <euw@mail.deuba.com>
To: <FOCUS-SUN@securityfocus.com>
Subject: Re: trojaned SSHD ?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0109211028470.8655-100000@euw.gefm.eur.deuba.com>

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Karthik Krishnamurthy wrote:

>Hullo list,
>Saw this recently on a SunOS 2.6 running sshd version
>1.2.26 [sparc-sun-solaris2.6]

[snip]

> Looks very suspicious. Anybody else seen something like this ?

As far as i know this is not a trojan. ssh1 used the outputs of netstat
and ls -alni as seed for the random number generator. I have an old
computer here which still has 1.2.26 on ist, and strings sshd here
has the same result as yours.