Comment on Powerful Malware Disguised as Crypto Miner Infects 1M+ Windows, Linux PCs
sir_reginald@lemmy.world 11 months ago
this makes use of an old windows specific vulnerability. Linux is only mentioned on the title, not again in the whole article. click bait.
It does though: “On Linux, the malware assumes the name ‘sd-pam’. It achieves persistence using systemd services, an autostarting .desktop file, or by modifying various profile and startup files, such as /etc/rc*, profile, bashrc, or inittab files.”
So technically useless . it can’t do shit.
It can pwn poorly configured dev systems.
It does include this:
quietly spread across a victim’s network, including to Linux machines.
But that’s a completely ridiculous lack of detail of any actual vulnerability. Smells like bullshit.
I want intentionally trying to imply that it came from the article. That’s why I posted the naked link. I wasn’t really thinking about the Linux component when I posted the article.
That’s why I posted the naked link.
Which is perfectly fine and dandy. I think some people just had a knee jerk reaction, based on a misunderstanding of context.
Salamendacious@lemmy.world 11 months ago
bleepingcomputer.com/…/stripedfly-malware-framewo…
Buffalox@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s from a completely different article.
And it doesn’t say how this is achieved without already having root privilegies. I’m not sure I believe this can in fact infect a Linux system, except if it’s already heavily compromised, for instance by a user logging in as root as default.
LostXOR@kbin.social 11 months ago
.bashrc and .profile can be modified without root, as can autostarting .desktop files. I think systemd and anything in /etc require root though.
Also a lot of users set
sudoto not require a password (I am guilty of this) which makes privilege escalation easy.Salamendacious@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m not a Linux user (except for Chromebook and Android) so honestly the Linux section wasn’t personally important to me. Another commentor wanted more information on the Linux side so I looked briefly if I could find an article that might be helpful. Linux terminology is all Greek to me so I honestly wouldn’t know. I thought the article was interesting and I thought other people might find it interesting. The Linux part didn’t even enter into my mind.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It is a different article, but both articles are simply reporting research by Kaspersky, and Kaspersky goes into quite a bit of depth covering the Linux side of the threat, which is very real. And OP’s article at least clearly links to their source.
This isn’t a single exploit, this is a “framework” that can take advantage of multiple exploits and will use which ever one it can find. You don’t need to be “heavily compromised” you just need to be vulnerable to one of the compromises. And you definitely don’t need root either.
LDerJim@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Maybe if root is shared via SMB1 and is rw
Buffalox@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not possible AFAIK, I don’t use anything Microsoft, but AFAIK SMB1 shares are through Samba, and you can’t just enable write permissions without root. So as I stated before, the Linux system needs to be already compromised.