Hello! This morning I cheked mail and I found a strange message by logcheck from a my server...
Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= *************** *** WARNING ***: Log file /var/log/mail.log is smaller than last time checked! *************** This could indicate tampering. Mhm... I'm logged in into that machine (a Debian Potato with latest security updates apt sources updated and upgraded - krnel Linux sgala2 2.2.20pre2aa1 #3 Thu Jun 14 12:24:53 CEST 2001 i586 unknown) to understand what is happened. network connection at this moment was... tcp 0 0 195.223.140.112:110 213.174.167.243:62621 TIME_WAIT tcp 0 0 195.223.140.112:22 213.174.167.243:62620 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 195.223.140.112:111 193.75.85.247:4714 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 195.223.140.112:111 24.22.214.76:3756 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 195.223.140.112:111 195.13.194.200:1272 ESTABLISHED Strange connections at portmapper port... I don't use portmap but i forgot to disable it. is it possible that portmap is exploitable? sgala2:/# ps afx PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1 ? S 0:09 init [2] 2 ? SW 0:07 [kflushd] 3 ? SW 0:03 [kupdate] 4 ? SW 0:32 [kswapd] 5 ? SW 0:00 [keventd] 147 ? S 2:36 /sbin/syslogd 149 ? SW 0:00 [klogd] 168 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 -Rms3 173 ? S 0:16 /usr/sbin/inetd 176 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/ippl 179 ? Z 0:00 \_ [ippl <defunct>] 194 ? S 0:05 /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster -b /usr/lib/postgr esql/bin/postgres -B 128 -D /var/lib/postgres/data -i 245 ? S 0:58 /usr/sbin/sshd 8244 ? S 0:03 \_ /usr/sbin/sshd 8245 pts/1 S 0:00 | \_ -bash 8441 ? S 0:01 \_ /usr/sbin/sshd 8444 pts/2 S 0:00 | \_ -bash 9237 ? S 0:05 \_ /usr/sbin/sshd 9242 pts/3 S 0:00 \_ -bash 9610 pts/3 R 0:00 \_ ps afx 9611 pts/3 S 0:00 \_ more 250 ? S 0:00 proftpd (accepting connections) 253 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd 256 ? S 0:04 /usr/sbin/cron 270 tty2 SW 0:00 [getty] 271 tty3 SW 0:00 [getty] 272 tty4 SW 0:00 [getty] 273 tty5 SW 0:00 [getty] 274 tty6 SW 0:00 [getty] 565 tty1 SW 0:00 [getty] 2715 ? S 0:23 sendmail: accepting connections on port 25 4018 ? S 2:11 ./psybnc 20284 ? S 0:01 /usr/sbin/named 23169 ? S 0:01 /usr/sbin/apache 7770 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/apache 7784 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/apache 7829 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/apache 7830 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/apache 7831 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/apache 7942 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/apache 7944 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/apache 9441 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/apache 9443 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/apache 8491 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/ippl 8492 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/ippl 8493 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/ippl 8494 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/ippl Is absolutely normal, no strange processes or something strange. The logfile state is strange. maillog is small.. ippl/all.log is zero bytes... But is possible that is logrotate that have rotated logs.. i don't understand exactly the consistante of log because at the hour of strange log message there is no traffic. Some examples... -rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Aug 26 06:48 user.log -rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Aug 19 06:48 user.log.0 -rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Aug 26 06:48 mail.warn -rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Aug 26 06:47 all.log -rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Aug 19 06:47 all.log.0 Then i have made a debsums -a and it found this md5sum: MD5 check failed for 'usr/share/consolefonts/lat1u-16.psf.gz' md5sum: can't open usr/share/games/fortunes/off/zozzital md5sum: can't open usr/share/doc/isapnptools/README.lib md5sum: can't open sbin/ldconfig.new md5sum: MD5 check failed for 'etc/pam.d/login' md5sum: MD5 check failed for 'etc/pam.d/passwd' md5sum: can't open usr/bin/perl-5.005.dist md5sum: MD5 check failed for 'etc/ppp/options.ttyXX' md5sum: MD5 check failed for 'var/lib/wwwcount/sample.dat' I checked if there is difference between pam.d/login and pam.d/passwd with anothe debian potato but there is no difference. finally i report the state port in listening sgala2:/var/log/ippl# lsof -i |grep LISTEN inetd 173 root 4u IPv4 86 TCP *:pop3 (LISTEN) inetd 173 root 5u IPv4 87 TCP *:auth (LISTEN) postmaste 194 postgres 3u IPv4 110 TCP *:postgres (LISTEN) sshd 245 root 3u IPv4 143 TCP *:ssh (LISTEN) proftpd 250 root 0u IPv4 158 TCP *:ftp (LISTEN) sendmail 2715 root 4u IPv4 479994 TCP *:smtp (LISTEN) psybnc 4018 sgala 3u IPv4 216645 TCP *:31337 (LISTEN) apache 7770 root 25u IPv4 285676 TCP *:www (LISTEN) apache 7784 root 25u IPv4 285676 TCP *:www (LISTEN) apache 7829 root 25u IPv4 285676 TCP *:www (LISTEN) apache 7830 root 25u IPv4 285676 TCP *:www (LISTEN) apache 7831 root 25u IPv4 285676 TCP *:www (LISTEN) apache 7942 root 25u IPv4 285676 TCP *:www (LISTEN) apache 7944 root 25u IPv4 285676 TCP *:www (LISTEN) sshd 8244 root 6u IPv4 537338 TCP *:6010 (LISTEN) sshd 8441 root 6u IPv4 537997 TCP *:6011 (LISTEN) sshd 9237 root 6u IPv4 539149 TCP *:6012 (LISTEN) apache 9441 root 25u IPv4 285676 TCP *:www (LISTEN) apache 9443 root 25u IPv4 285676 TCP *:www (LISTEN) apache 9444 root 25u IPv4 285676 TCP *:www (LISTEN) named 20284 root 21u IPv4 272353 TCP localhost:domain (LISTEN) named 20284 root 23u IPv4 272355 TCP sgala.com:domain (LISTEN) apache 23169 root 25u IPv4 285676 TCP *:www (LISTEN) All data files of webserver/database server/mail server and whatever is not damaged, corrupt or modified. Therefore it seems to be... Now I'm in doubt... what is happened?... Sorry for my bad english... I'm a small italian guy...:)) Thanks in advance! Matteo -- Matteo Sgalaberni | Web : http://www.sgala.com -- | E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] System and Application Engineer | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------