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Date:      Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:36:45 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Sascha Luck <bofh@online.ie>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: chkrootkit & FBSD-5
Message-ID:  <20030128083645.A4998@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <200301281516.16413.bofh@online.ie>; from bofh@online.ie on Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:16:07PM %2B0000
References:  <20030128085617.L167@woody.ops.uunet.co.za> <200301281516.16413.bofh@online.ie>

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On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:16:07PM +0000, Sascha Luck wrote:
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>=20
> Hello all,
>=20
> on my CURRENT boxes, chkrootkit (v0.38) reports the following binaries=20
> as INFECTED:
>=20
> chfn
> chsh
> date
> ls
> ps
>=20
> as well as 7 hidden PIDs.
>=20
> recompiling/reinstalling the binaries seems to have no effect. I'm=20
> tempted to  regard these as false positives - anyone else notice this=20
> behaviour?

Someone else mentioned it to me.  They now contain the string "/bin/sh"
which chkrootkit looks for.  I'd be curious to know why they do.

-- Brooks

--=20
Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE.
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