Re: [Rkhunter-users] Potential rootkit warning, regarding systemd...

[John H. <joh...@pl...>]

On Thu, 2021-08-19 at 12:37 +0200, ks...@gm... wrote:
> Hello,
> I've got a Linux Server (openSUSE 15.2) that suddenly showed a suspicious
> warning during the night after a timed rkhunter scan (cron job), the days
> before it was quite.
> There was no update on the machine before, no reboot or something like
> that...
>
> RKHunter shows a warning about 'systemd' as a possible rootkit, can anybody
> help me with that?
> Any hints how I could verify what that means?
> Is there a known false positive relating to that message or something like
> that?
>
>
> Running Rootkit Hunter version 1.4.6 (updated):
>
> ...
> [04:06:33] Info: Starting test name 'malware'
> [04:06:33] Performing malware checks
> [04:06:33]
> [04:06:33] Info: Test 'deleted_files' disabled at users request.
> [04:06:33]
> [04:06:33] Info: Starting test name 'running_procs'
> [04:06:50]   Checking running processes for suspicious files [ Warning ]
> [04:06:50] Warning: The following processes are using suspicious files:
> [04:06:50]          Command: systemd
> [04:06:50]            UID: 0    PID: 1
> [04:06:50]            Pathname:
> [04:06:50]            Possible Rootkit: Unknown rootkit
> [04:06:50]
Without the pathname not much can be said really. I vaguely remember a bug fix
in the dev version for when pathnames weren't being shown, but that might have
been with a different test.



John.

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