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Tag: Bash

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[SANS ISC] Malicious Network Traffic From /bin/bash

April 25, 2018 Malware, SANS Internet Storm Center, Security Leave a comment

I published the following diary on isc.sans.org: “Malicious Network Traffic From /bin/bash“: One of our readers from Germany sent me a malicious shell script captured by our honeypot running on his Raspberry.  It’s a simple UNIX Bash script that performs a bunch of malicious tasks: Kills existing crypto miner processes

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[SANS ISC] Malicious Bash Script with Multiple Features

March 5, 2018 Malware, SANS Internet Storm Center, Security One comment

I published the following diary on isc.sans.org: “Malicious Bash Script with Multiple Features“: It’s not common to find a complex malicious bash script. Usually, bash scripts are used to download a malicious executable and start it. This one has been spotted by @michalmalik who twitted about it. I had a

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/bin/bash Phone Home

May 5, 2011 Software One comment

I found UNIX a wonderful OS, whatever the flavors! I use it for 17 years and almost every week, I learn new stuffs. One of the particularities of UNIX is the way it communicate with devices. Except some specific devices, most of them are managed and visible as files or

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Socat, Another Network Swiss Army Knife

October 31, 2010 Software, Unix 6 comments

Infosec guys are lazy people. At least in my case! There is nothing much boring that typing long shell commands or to perform recurrent tasks. After all, computers are made to make our life easier. Let them work for us! UNIX is a wonderful environment. There are plenty ways to

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Bash Syslog History Could Lead to Data Leakage?

December 28, 2009 Security, Software Leave a comment

A few months ago, I posted an article about how to add extra logging facilities to the Bash shell. For specific users, it can be useful to have a complete history of their activity on your server (for audit purposes). The first release candidate of Bash 4.1 is available for

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