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Re: Suspicious file found in /dev/shm with Rkhunter



On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:24:34 +0100
Marko Randjelovic <markoran@eunet.rs> wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:47:02 +0100
> Marko Randjelovic <markoran@eunet.rs> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 09:44:27 +0100
> > Petter Adsen <petter@synth.no> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 08:18:37 +0100
> > > Marko Randjelovic <markoran@eunet.rs> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > While trying to find out how to eliminate messages:
> > > > 
> > > > Warning: Hidden directory found: /etc/.java
> > > > Warning: Hidden directory found: /dev/.udev
> > > > Warning: Hidden directory found: /dev/.initramfs
> > > > 
> > > > which are made by rkhunter every morning as cron job, one more
> > > > message appeared (when ran /etc/cron.daily/rkhunter manualy).
> > > > 
> > > > Warning: Suspicious file types found in /dev:
> > > >          /dev/shm/suspscan.21242.strings: ASCII text
> > > > 
> > > > You can find the file attached. Besides
> > > > editing /etc/rkhunter.conf, man rkhunter, run rkhunter from
> > > > command line and run /etc/cron.daily/rkhunter, I was reading
> > > > https://lists.debian.org and debian mailing lists messages from
> > > > my email client. I visited http://www.turkoglu.me/ which was
> > > > listed in one of emails with links2 web browser. 
> > > 
> > > Look at:
> > > 
> > > http://sourceforge.net/p/rkhunter/mailman/rkhunter-users/thread/1193180950.2751.143.camel@ash.trees99.org.uk/
> > > 
> > > It is a file created by rkhunter.
> > > 
> > > Petter
> > > 
> > 
> > I upgraded rkhunter to 1.3.8-10~bpo60+1 and am trying to see
> > if the problem disappeared.
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> 
> Unfortunately, even with Wheezy version, the problem persists.
> 

Odd.

Did you (manually) delete the file first? rkhunter probably won't
delete any files previous runs have created. Also, you could try to grab
the latest version (1.4.2) from http://rkhunter.sourceforge.net/ and
install that. It doesn't come in a .deb, however, which is unfortunate.

Petter

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