[Cialug] Rootkit?

Nathan C. Smith nathan.smith at ipmvs.com
Thu Jan 31 20:35:07 CST 2008


It wasn't me.  Even though I may look like I ate it.  ;) 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Stien [mailto:nathanism at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 8:34 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Rootkit?
> 
> I wrote out a reply to Nate's response, but something ate it 
> before it went out.  I have no idea.
> 
> Anyways, here's some more info:
> 
> The machine is a laptop running Kubuntu gutsy.
> 
> It runs no internet-facing services.  Nmapping it reveals 
> nothing listening out of the ordinary.  Just smbd, cupsd, and sshd.
> 
> However, with iftop I see traffic heading out to 224.0.0.251. 
>  I have no idea what that is.  Something to do with multicast?
> 
> I've also been getting plenty of lines like this in my syslog:
> 
> Jan 31 20:17:54 wintermute kernel: [110435.910602] TKIP: 
> received packet without ExtIV flag from 00:16:b6:0d:21:22
> 
> I know of no machine of mine with that MAC address.
> 
> - Nathan
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