Re: strange, strange stuff

[Peter Moody <peter.moody () lutris com>]

Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Max Gribov wrote:
>
> > I did my weekly sweep of my machine, which involves portscans, log
> > reviews, etc, and during nmap'ing i came across this:
> >
> > four consequtive nmaps below:
> >
> > --------------------------------
> > Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA7 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
> > Strange read error from 127.0.0.1 (104): Operation now in progress
> > Strange read error from 127.0.0.1 (104): Operation now in progress
> > Strange read error from 127.0.0.1 (104): Operation now in progress
> > Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1):
> > (The 65494 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
> > Port       State       Service
> > 22/tcp     open        ssh
> > 113/tcp    open        auth
> > 1918/tcp   open        unknown
> > 2643/tcp   open        unknown
> > 4986/tcp   open        unknown
> > 6000/tcp   open        X11
>
> ....
>
> Why would someone use nmap to a local machine. I guess `lsof` and `netstat
> -na` would be more reliable.


some trojans employ root kits which hide can hide the fact that they are listening
on certain ports.  in thess cases, lsof and netstat wouldn't help...


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