Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 30 Sep 2011 21:15:20 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | Re: kernel.org status: hints on how to check your machine for intrusion | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:59:24 -0700
> 1. Install the chkrootkit package from your distro repository and see if it > reports anything. If your distro doesn't have the chkroot package, > download it from: > http://www.chkrootkit.org/ > > Another tool is the ossec-rootcheck tool which can be found at: > http://www.ossec.net/main/rootcheck > > And another one is the rkhunter program: > http://www.rootkit.nl/projects/rootkit_hunter.html > [Note, this tool has the tendancy to give false-positives on some > Debian boxes, please read /usr/share/doc/rkhunter/README.Debian.gz if > you run this on a Debian machine]
I quickly found that it gives false positives on Fedora15 too.
It thinks one is infected with Suckit.
It's check is essentially "strings /sbin/init | egrep HOME" which triggers with:
XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME HOME=%s
I'm sure chkrootkit might be useful as a guide, but the seeming pervasiveness of it's false positives make it much less useful than it could be.
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