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Linux Rootkit Case Study Notes

!!! info Original post on my WordPress site The Scenario The following is a summary of what’s presented in the case study. It begins with the discovery of the following in file inetd.conf on a workstation running Red Hat Linux: netstat stream tcp nowait root /usr/lib/netstat netstat A graphical CPU load monitor showed 100% load, the top command indicated only 90%, and there were apparently no running processes listed that accounted for the discrepancy.