[clug] Need opinions about actions of an intruder...

Jim Watson jim at amarooas.com.au
Thu Aug 10 09:40:03 GMT 2006


um, phishing?

On 10/08/2006, at 7:18 PM, Nedim Hadzimahmutovic wrote:

> Hi,
>
> at work an old RH 9 box, which was 'maintained' by a coworker, was
> hacked. While I was debugging asterisk on that box, I noticed a
> strange process. Later I examined /var/log/messages and noticed
> someone logged as user 'news' with uid 0. We did a backup of files,
> and also a compete reinstall of the box (FC4). The strange process was
> this one:
>
> root      7664  0.3  0.1  2024  884 ?        S    13:35   0:00 sh -c
> lynx -dump "http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? 
> ViewItem&item=130008016306"
> | grep @ >>
> root      7665  1.6  0.2  4960 2280 ?        S    13:35   0:00 lynx
> -dump http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130008016306
>
> What do you think the intruder was doing?
>
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