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Re: rkhunter finds something suspicious



You should execute the commands below when you install a new system. Closing unnecessary ports makes your system less susceptible to cracking, rootkit infection and/or malware infection.

Am 08.05.20 um 14:33 schrieb Elmar Stellnberger:
  I always use
 > netstat -atupn
That shows all open tcp and udp ports. Invoke this before you start Firefox. The list should be empty or only contain sockets on the loopback network interface (127.0.0.*, ::1). To disable unnecessary network daemons use:
 > systemctl disable avahi-daemon/other-daemon
 > systemctl stop avahi-daemon

   For init opening RPC sockets you may need:
 > systemctl disable rpcbind.socket
 > systemctl stop rpcbind.socket

  You may also uninstall unnecessary software:
 > apt-get remove kdeconnect

View all processes with
 > ps ax
That may also be of help:
 > pstree -p

To identify the executable of a process
 > ls -l /proc/1234/exe

And to identify the package an executable belongs to:
 > dpkg -S /bin/bash

If rkhunter should once not yield the desired results then use debcheckroot: https://www.elstel.org/debcheckroot/

Also helpful:
 > systemctl -t service -a

If you have a rootkit that does f.i. infect system libraries like glibc you will not see anything in the netstat nor in the ps ax output because these utilities can be replaced by utilities that do not return things belonging to the rootkit. To be sure that your system is clean you will need to use debcheckroot as rkhunter only knows a certain set of well known rootkits. However in this case rkhunter may have found something though.


Am 08.05.20 um 13:08 schrieb shirish शिरीष:

Anyways, I don't really know much about netstat hence used ss which is
a utility to investigate sockets. Fortunately the version of iproute2
has version 5.6.0-1 which gives the option of doing something like -

# ss -p




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