Re: Linux - Indicators of compromise

[Benji <me () b3nji com>]

" All compromised systems talk to the Internet to dump data or route spam."

yup, this is 1000% true and utterly foolproof.


On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Gary Baribault <gary () baribault net> wrote:
> I suggest one of the first answers was the good one, intercept the traffic
> routed to the internet with TCPDump. Filter out the normal traffic and see
> what's left. All compromised systems talk to the Internet to dump data or
> route spam. Be patient, some systems talk all the time, some once an hour ..
> but you will find some unexplained traffic. Once you do find that you're
> infected, don't bother cleaning up the system, format and restore the data!
>
> Gary Baribault
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> On 07/16/2012 09:40 AM, valdis.kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
>
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 12:46:50 -0000, "Ali Varshovi " said:
>
> Most of the materials I've seen are more aligned to malware and rootkit
> detection which is not the only concern apparently.
>
> It's hard to say what else to check without knowing what other concerns
> you're checking for, and what data sources are available (I'm thinking about
> auditd and friends, but there's other data sources as well).
>
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