windigo post-mortem

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Fri Mar 21 18:35:20 EST 2014


On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, mancha wrote:

> ESET recently published an interesting post-mortem of the so-called
> "Operation Windigo" malware campaign [1].
> 
> OpenSSH backdoors (codename Linux/Ebury), described by ESET last month
> [2], are a key component of Windigo's attack surface.

What is libkeyutils.so? Is it linked to by some vendor patch? AFAIK
pristine OpenSSH never links to it.

I saw a really early version of this trojan while helping with some
forensics, but it was before it started hiding itself using libkeyutils.so...

-d


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