On 08.05.22 16:51, Sylvain Sécherre wrote:
I thought a lot about your answer and I feel a bit tricky... I understand what you're writing but I don't know how to do this.

Do you think I can simply get rid of these rootkit? I've tried to move the file "crontab" in a safe place and then reinstall the package cron. The new "crontab" file seems to be the same as the previous since the md5 are equal, but debcheckroot still throws an error for it...

Dear Sylvain

No, I don´t think you can get rid of the rootkit by reinstalling a package. Usually rootkits are designed in a way that updating or reinstalling packages doesn´t damage the rootkit. The best thing to do is to reinstall new from scratch. In order to do this without complications I have an own home partition that I can register and reuse with /etc/fstab. If you don´t have that make a

cp -a /home /mnt/usbhdd/home

However that is not all you need to respect. Basically any infected file can cause the rootkit to get reinstalled on your computer. That can also be the case for hidden files in your home directory like /home/sylvain/.*
  I always do it like this:

cd /home/sylvain
ls -lad .[^.]*
mkdir /mnt/usbhdd/hidden-quarantine
mv .[^.]* /mnt/usbhdd/hidden-quarantine

the .[^.]* - expression works like this:
* first match anything that starts with a dot (under Linux hidden files start with dots) * second match a character that is not a dot [^.]: This excludes .. which denotes the parent directory. This one should of course not be copied
* third match any from zero up to more characters: *

Make sure that you move away the hidden files before you copy your home directory back. Moving away hidden home directory files will also reset your Firefox bookmarks and saved passwords. If you have progressed this far I can tell you how to reinstall them - and under normal circumstances reusing a database file should not cause a rootkit to reinstall. If you are very thorough you can export the bookmarks as html and write down all saved passwords on a sheet of paper. You need to know however that getting rid of a rootkit with 100% certainty is hard since basically any binary file can result in an attack vector. If you have progressed this far, sure I am going to continue to help you with setting up a new installation and rescuing bookmarks (at least for FF).

Kind Regards,
Elmar





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