some unknown scripts
james@jamesmcdonald.id.au
james
Mon May 17 12:01:43 PDT 2004
> Hi
>
> Our server is
> Redhat8.0...Today i noticed.. few files/scripts under the following
> directory.. Below i mentioned the path, please check under 'pwd'.
> There is an executable "xinetd" is there and i found it is running
> in our server..
>
> Do you think our server has been compromised ? I was checking
> teh "mech.help" file which is here, it is seems it is some IRC
> program... As per i know, none of us installed these programs, in
> our server... moreover it is running with the userid "apache"....
>
do a rpm -qa | grep vbox and find out if you have that installed ...
if so do a rpm -qp <vbox package name.rpm> --list to see if xinetd should
be there.....
otherwise your hacked and need to do a rebuild and make sure you are using
iptables to locked down everything but the needed ports.
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