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hello, everyone.
one of the severs in my lab was infected by a virus named ramen . as a result , our homepage was revised , and yet there is nothing else deviant. all of these took place a few weeks ago.unfortunately, we didn't setup any anti-virus software on it before that.
i'd like to find the virus immediately.
i have tried the find order & there is no result.
does anyone have such experience or any advice?
thx in advacne!
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
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Here is some info about the worm:
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This is an internet worm for Linux. It attempts to use three remote exploits to gain access to computers running Red Hat 6.2 and 7.0. Once it has access on the computer it downloads a copy of itself to /tmp/ramen.tgz and extracts itself to the /usr/src/.poop directory. It appends a line to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit so it is executed on startup.
Once executed the worm remains running until the machine is switched off. While the worm is active it will choose a class B internet network at random and probe all addresses in the range looking for machines to infect.
The worm may delete /usr/sbin/lpd or /sbin/rpc.statd or /usr/sbin/rpc.statd to close the exploit it used to gain access to the system.
In order to propagate copies of itself it installs a service named asp, either by appending a line to /etc/inetd.conf or by overwriting the file /etc/xinetd.conf. The worm replaces all index.html files on the computer with an HTML file containing the text
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