[TriLUG] help with fuser/ssh reporting lots of processes

Tim Jowers via TriLUG trilug at trilug.org
Mon Jul 18 09:18:26 EDT 2016


Thank you Matt,

Those are GREAT commands. Right now, everything looks good with those. I
only recognize my activity in them. I see some connection attempts from
places, including what is supposedly a network security company "
protected.javapipe.com" but nobody getting in any more. So, I think the
Chinese illegally accessed the system by cracking the root password and
because I had naively left root access open on ssh, thinking an 18
character, complex password would be sufficient.

Thanks, back to $JOB.
Tim


On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Matt Flyer via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> Here is the list of commands that I would recommend running to try to
> cross correlate the open connections via a process:
>
> (run each individually and save the output) ps acxfwwwe, lsof -Pwln,
> and netstat -anpe
>
> You should also scour your log files (consider running them through
> logwatch.
>
> Ultimately, I think you will want to rebuild the system image, but I
> also think it is vitally important to try to identify how they got in
> so that you can hopefully defend against it going forward.
>
> It is kind of hard to tell from the LSOF output, but it looks like they
> may have launched copies of SSHD as root, which would mean a root level
> compromise.
>
> Places like /tmp, which are relatively insecure are common locations
> where you can find malware binaries.
>
> You could also try to run a chesksum (md5 or sha) of your system
> binaries versus the repository to see if any of the system files, e.g.
> ssh, have been replaced.
>
> Apache or other web servers are another common intrusion tactic,
> especially if they can be made to do a remote download (remote file
> inclusion I think it is called).
>
> On Mon, 2016-07-18 at 08:25 -0400, William Sutton via TriLUG wrote:
> > anything in /var/log/secure?
> >
> > William Sutton
> >
> > On Mon, 18 Jul 2016, Tim Jowers via TriLUG wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >  I run these two less than a second apart:
> > >
> > > [root at test1 log]# fuser ssh/tcp
> > >
> > > ssh/tcp:               685  5066  5283  5284  5289  5290  5291  529
> > > 2  5293
> > > 5294
> > >
> > > [root at test1 log]# fuser ssh/tcp
> > >
> > > ssh/tcp:               685  5066  5289  5290  5293  5294  5296  529
> > > 7  5298
> > > 5299
> > >
> > >
> > >  Any ideas how to troubleshoot?   I think I have some Chinese
> > > search bot
> > > malware based on this:
> > >
> > > [root at test1 log]# lsof -i
> > >
> > > COMMAND   PID   USER   FD   TYPE     DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
> > >
> > > sshd      685   root    3u  IPv6  350221175      0t0  TCP *:ssh
> > > (LISTEN)
> > >
> > > sshd      685   root    4u  IPv4  350221177      0t0  TCP *:ssh
> > > (LISTEN)
> > >
> > > mysqld    811  mysql   10u  IPv4  350221673      0t0  TCP *:mysql
> > > (LISTEN)
> > >
> > > sshd     5066   root    3r  IPv4 4054471422      0t0  TCP
> > > 198-20-184-56-host.colocrossing.com:ssh->
> > > cpe-45-37-198-154.nc.res.rr.com:59006 (ESTABLISHED)
> > >
> > > sshd     5361   root    3r  IPv4 4054875967      0t0  TCP
> > > 198-20-184-57-host.colocrossing.com:ssh->112.85.42.99:41796
> > > (ESTABLISHED)
> > >
> > > sshd     5362   sshd    3u  IPv4 4054875967      0t0  TCP
> > > 198-20-184-57-host.colocrossing.com:ssh->112.85.42.99:41796
> > > (ESTABLISHED)
> > >
> > > sshd     5365   root    3r  IPv4 4054877149      0t0  TCP
> > > 198-20-184-56-host.colocrossing.com:ssh->112.85.42.99:openmailpxy
> > > (ESTABLISHED)
> > >
> > > sshd     5366   sshd    3u  IPv4 4054877149      0t0  TCP
> > > 198-20-184-56-host.colocrossing.com:ssh->112.85.42.99:openmailpxy
> > > (ESTABLISHED)
> > >
> > > sshd     5369   root    3r  IPv4 4054886185      0t0  TCP
> > > 198-20-184-56-host.colocrossing.com:ssh->221.229.172.99:36122
> > > (ESTABLISHED)
> > >
> > > sshd     5370   sshd    3u  IPv4 4054886185      0t0  TCP
> > > 198-20-184-56-host.colocrossing.com:ssh->221.229.172.99:36122
> > > (ESTABLISHED)
> > >
> > > sshd     5371   root    3r  IPv4 4054886747      0t0  TCP
> > > 198-20-184-57-host.colocrossing.com:ssh->221.229.172.99:15096
> > > (ESTABLISHED)
> > >
> > > sshd     5372   sshd    3u  IPv4 4054886747      0t0  TCP
> > > 198-20-184-57-host.colocrossing.com:ssh->221.229.172.99:15096
> > > (ESTABLISHED)
> > >
> > > java    18216   root   43u  IPv6 3405192816      0t0  TCP
> > > *:webcache
> > > (LISTEN)
> > >
> > > java    18216   root   48u  IPv6 3405192820      0t0  TCP *:8009
> > > (LISTEN)
> > >
> > > java    18216   root   72u  IPv6 3405192937      0t0  TCP
> > > localhost.localdomain:8005 (LISTEN)
> > >
> > > httpd   26003 apache    3u  IPv6 3253453758      0t0  TCP *:http
> > > (LISTEN)
> > >
> > > httpd   26361 apache    3u  IPv6 3253453758      0t0  TCP *:http
> > > (LISTEN)
> > >
> > > httpd   27165 apache    3u  IPv6 3253453758      0t0  TCP *:http
> > > (LISTEN)
> > >
> > > httpd   27818   root    3u  IPv6 3253453758      0t0  TCP *:http
> > > (LISTEN)
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > > [root at test1 log]# netstat -a
> > >
> > > Active Internet connections (servers and established)
> > >
> > > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address               Foreign Address
> > > State
> > >
> > > tcp        0      0 *:ssh                       *:*
> > > LISTEN
> > >
> > > tcp        0      0 *:mysql                     *:*
> > > LISTEN
> > >
> > > tcp        0      0 198-20-184-57-host.colo:ssh 112.85.42.99:15265
> > > ESTABLISHED
> > >
> > > tcp        0      0 198-20-184-56-host.colo:ssh
> > > 221.229.172.99:48079
> > > TIME_WAIT
> > >
> > > tcp        0      0 198-20-184-56-host.colo:ssh
> > > 221.229.172.99:33195
> > > ESTABLISHED
> > >
> > > tcp        0      0 198-20-184-57-host.colo:ssh
> > > 221.229.172.99:44556
> > > ESTABLISHED
> > >
> > > tcp        0      0 198-20-184-57-host.colo:ssh
> > > 221.229.172.99:15096
> > > TIME_WAIT
> > >
> > > tcp        0    608 198-20-184-56-host.colo:ssh cpe-45-37-198-
> > > 154.nc.:59006
> > > ESTABLISHED
> > >
> > > tcp        0      0 198-20-184-56-host.colo:ssh 112.85.42.99:42180
> > > ESTABLISHED
> > >
> > > tcp        0      0 *:webcache                  *:*
> > > LISTEN
> > >
> > > tcp        0      0 *:http                      *:*
> > > LISTEN
> > >
> > > tcp        0      0 *:ssh                       *:*
> > > LISTEN
> > >
> > > tcp        0      0 localhost.localdomain:8005  *:*
> > > LISTEN
> > >
> > > tcp        0      0 *:8009                      *:*
> > > LISTEN
> > >
> > > tcp        0      0 198-20-184-56-host.col:http ns336619.ip-37-187-
> > > 16:18286
> > > TIME_WAIT
> > >
> > > tcp        0      0 198-20-184-56-host.col:http
> > > hydrogen081.a.ahrefs.:30831
> > > TIME_WAIT
> > >
> > > and some StackOverflow article where someone posted that
> > > *221.229.172.99*
> > > is a Chinese search botnet.
> > >
> > > last and lastlog don't show anything. There is no /var/log/auth.log
> > > present. Not sure if there should be. Just tried things based on
> > > Internet
> > > searching.
> > >
> > > I guess there is no easy way to kill this?  Sounds like I should
> > > just ask
> > > for a new server instance (ChicagoVPS)? I use SVN to back up my
> > > files there.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for any ideas.
> > >
> > > Tim
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