RE: NKADM rootkit - Something new?

From: Dave Paris (dparis_at_w3works.com)
Date: 05/28/04

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    the Operator live CD (based of Knoppix) is an outstanding variation on this
    theme.

    http://www.ussysadmin.com/operator/

    Kind Regards,
    -dsp

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    > Instead of Knoppix you may want to look at "Knoppix Security Tools Disto"
    > at
    > http://www.knoppix-std.org
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    > Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
    > 05/26/2004 06:50 PM
    >
    > To: <incidents@securityfocus.com>
    > cc:
    > Subject: Re: NKADM rootkit - Something new?
    >
    >
    > Since I posted my response in this thread, I've gotten several requests
    > for
    > my "tool list". There's really nothing magical about it.
    >
    > Foundstone has a number of useful tools - Forensic Toolkit (good for
    > examing files), Vision (shows open TCP and UDP ports and what
    > process owns
    >
    > them), BinText (strings for Windows).
    >
    > Go to http://www.foundstone.com/ and click on Resources/Free Tools.
    >
    > Systinternals has a number of tools that you'll probably find in the
    > hackers' toolkits as well, particularly pslist and pskill. But look at
    > their whole set. ListDLLs is very useful, as is Handle, PMon, Process
    > Explorer (find function is *very* helpful), PSTools (pskill, pslist,
    > psservice and several others.)
    >
    > Go to http://www.sysinternals.com/ and click on Utilities.
    > All these tools are very useful. Particularly when you're dealing with a
    > process or service that's been renamed and/or is elusive, something that
    > can tie processes to PIDs and files with complete paths is a necessity.
    >
    > Another good tool is Active Ports, which will show you the process, PID,
    > IP
    > address (local and remote), ports (local and remote), state (listen,
    > established) and path to the executable is extremely useful.
    >
    > Go to http://www.snapfiles.com/get/activeports.html
    >
    > More good tools may be found at http://www.ntutility.com/ (including
    > Active
    > Ports.)
    >
    > Of course Microsoft also has a useful set of utilities that few seem to
    > know about. Among them is sc,tskill, tasklist, eventquery.vbs, pstat.exe
    > (part of the SDK). These are handy in a pinch, but not as informative as
    > the tools mentioned above.
    >
    > Another tool that I've found invaluable is F.I.R.E. It's a bootable,
    > networkable CD ROM running Linux. I've been able to mount ntfs hard
    > drives
    > and scp the entire contents to a server, saving all the data from a
    > crashed
    > machine before formatting it and reinstalling the OS. (Saved the
    > President's laptop once, becoming a hero in the process.) I've done
    > forensics on a Win2K box, mounting the ntfs drives and making copies of
    > all
    > the logs and binaries I found without disturbing the contents of
    > the drive
    >
    > or changing any of the file access information.
    >
    > Go to http://biatchux.dmzs.com/ to get a copy.
    >
    > The most recent update is dated 5/14/2003, so I don't know if it's being
    > maintained or updated.
    >
    > You might want to consider Knoppix instead. It comes with a boatload of
    > extra stuff you won't use for forensics, but it's a good way to get
    > familiar with unix, if you're not already. It even has a working version
    > of snort with ACID!
    >
    > Go to http:www.knoppix.net/ for more information.
    >
    > Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
    > Adjunct Information Security Officer
    > The University of Texas at Dallas
    > AVIEN Founding Member
    > http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
    >
    >
    >
    >
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