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Re: What is the hidden process?



On 08.04.2011 14:32, Brad Alexander wrote:
> Is this happening on every scan? 

Yes.

Is it possible that it is a process that
> either starts or ends during the scan, so that ps sees it but by the time
> the /proc check occurs, it is gone or vice versa? I had not heard of unhide
> until this thread, but OSSEC has a similar feature, and I have seen this on
> my mailserver. The conclusion I came to is a routine (but short) process
> (such as postfix attempting to deliver mail) was firing and/or ending during
> the scan to cause the false positive?
> 
> I'll take a look at unhide.
> 
> --b
Thanks, I'll try to define what is that process.
> 
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:15 AM, green <greenfreedom10@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> James Brown wrote at 2011-04-07 23:43 -0500:
>>> On 08.04.2011 03:20, green wrote:
>>>> James Brown wrote at 2011-04-07 21:50 -0500:
>>>>> `unhide` define that there is a hidden process in my system, but don't
>>>>> indicate it concretely:
>>>>
>>>>> HIDDEN Processes Found: 1
>>>>
>>>> Hmm, interesting.  Same result here with sys method, buth nothing is
>> detected
>>>> using the proc and brute methods.
>>>
>>> Yes, only with sys method. Your system is 'squeeze' too? (I had no such
>>> result under lenny).
>>
>> Yes, Debian squeeze x64.
>>
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