False positives from chkrootkit? or hacked test server?
Mike
addymin at pacbell.net
Wed Apr 14 12:29:14 PDT 2004
Greetings:
My test system:
FreeBSD 4.9-stable
Pentium III 800
I read an earlier post about using chkrootkit to check for root kits
(intrusions). I'm still learning about FreeBSD so I thought I would run
this too.
Well... I installed and ran chkrootkit. And the output shows that:
Checking `chfn'... INFECTED
Checking `chsh'... INFECTED
Checking `date'... INFECTED
Checking `ls'... INFECTED
Checking `ps'... INFECTED
No rootkits were found.
This FreeBSD system is a test server running Postfix, Samba, Apache,
PHP4, MySql, and akpop3. For a firewall I run IPFW.
This computer sits behind a NAT router (linksys BEFSR41). The Linksys
router forwards a few ports (25, 110, 80) to a different server (a
Redhat-9 system). However, NO PORTS are forwarded to this FreeBSD system.
My Redhat-9 server that runs Apache, Mysql, php4, and postfix.
Question: Does chkrootkit ever generate false positives?
This system has just few test websites on it (test data) and nothing
else. But if this system has been compromised, then how? Given that
any public services (forwarded from the router) coming across ports 25,
110, 80, 22 are sent to a different server altogether?
I would appreciate any hints or pointers. Thank you.
Michael Chinn
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