Re: My Linux server got hacked last night -- please help!
From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_dodgy.net.au)
Date: 11/30/04
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Date: 30 Nov 2004 09:50:21 GMT
In article <24d1fc75.0411291116.57cfad5b@posting.google.com>,
sarah chang <sarahd00d@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>It looks as though my Linux server (running RedHat Fedora Core 3) was
>hacked last night.
>
>I see the following files in my /lib directory (note modification
>times, permissions and sizes)
>
>?---rwS--T 2200 4249291143 4170711954 4253155062 Dec 20 1974
>libc-2.3.3.so
[...]
This looks to me like a failing disk or filesystem corruption rather
than, er, enemy action.
>Nov 29 04:55:02 andromeda sshd[32300]: Invalid user admin from
>::ffff:210.212.85.11
These look like the characteristic failures from the password-guessing
ssh worm that's going around (it was mentioned on full-disclosure
a while back). I've captured some of these attempts and the look to
me like vanilla password auth attempts. There appears to be at least
2 variants, the most prolific tries user/password pairs of root/root,
admin/admins, user/user and test/test.
The fact that it apparently has a non-zero success rate makes me wonder
sometimes... I mean if your internet-accessible box has a root password
of "root" then connecting with strong crypto isn't going to help much.
>I'd appreciate any advice on
>1) How to cleanse my system
Either way, you can't trust what's on the disk. Perform a clean install,
preferably on a new disk and restore what you need from backup.
>2) How to avoid this type of attack in future.
Not enough info to comment.
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