Rootkit

[Jordi Prats]

Hi,
I'm refering that on a dead filesystem witch is the best tool to check 
if there is any rootkit.

I do not want to check listening ports because it would check the wrong 
machine.

Jordi

Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 23:16 +0200, Jordi Prats wrote:
>> But it does check for some listening ports. There is not a better tool 
>> for that?
> 
> The best tool for that is nmap (or for the GUI users, nmap-fe).
> 
>> Maybe a combination of chkrootkit -d with some AV? Any recomendation?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jordi
>>
>> Dave Burns wrote:
>>> On 10/22/07, Jordi Prats <jprats at cesca.es> wrote:
>>>> About this discussion, chkrootkit are for live systems, isn't it?
>>>> There's any tool to do rootkit analysis on a "dead" system?
>>>>
>>>> I'm thinking of check for rootkits on snapshots of the file system of a
>>>> virtual machine to determine if the running virtual machine is compromised.
>>>>
>>> Use -r switch? As long as you can mount the dead system as a (possbily
>>> ro) filesystem, I don't see why not.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>  chkrootkit --help
>>> Usage: /usr/lib/chkrootkit-0.47/chkrootkit [options] [test ...]
>>> Options:
>>>         -h                show this help and exit
>>>         -V                show version information and exit
>>>         -l                show available tests and exit
>>>         -d                debug
>>>         -q                quiet mode
>>>         -x                expert mode
>>>         -r dir            use dir as the root directory
>>>         -p dir1:dir2:dirN path for the external commands used by chkrootkit
>>>         -n                skip NFS mounted dirs
>>>
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