Ok fortunately the postgres user does have a home directory and I was able
to extract the attached command history.

Working on sorting out that bots tarball it downloads. I would like to just
wget that tarball, but don't want to attract attention to the network I'd be
grabbing that from.

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Vern Ceder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> Then very definitely be sure you have the rootkit angle covered.
>
> A mac would have a /var/log/sytem.log and secure.log - haven't looked at
> them much, but they might tell you what's going on. There may even be a
> GUI log viewer in the control panel, I'm not sure. And that's ONLY if
> you have ssh and samba turned on for that machine.
>
> Vern
>
> Jonathan Bartels wrote:
> > Damn it.
> >
> > Given a choice I would prefer to take the longer, slightly riskier route
> > of repairing rather than reinstalling.
> >
> > The only other machines on the network are my wifes Mac (how can I
> > review logins on that?) and my throwaway laptop (will be rebuilt).
> >
> > What I'm expecting is that from the postgres account the user would have
> > full access to anything running on postgres as well as whatever read
> > access a normal user would have. The only "sensitive" operations I do on
> > that machine are online banking, so I'll generate some new passwords at
> > work and wipe out my keepass file at home.
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Rob Ludwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> >
> >     Yeah I agree and run the root kit detector from a bootable cdrom or
> usb
> >     key, using a known linux kernel that has not been corrupted.
> >
> >     There are rootkits that hide the existence of themselves by loading a
> >     special kernel module that prevents root from seeing certain files,
> >     processes, and other things necessary to detect their presence.
> >
> >     --R
> >
> >     On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 22:09 -0400, Vern Ceder wrote:
> >      > Don't forget to check for a rootkit, or to be even safer, just
> >     resintall
> >      > the OS from scratch and the data from a back up.
> >      >
> >      > There is a chkrootkit and a rkhunter, I believe, that will check
> for
> >      > rootkits.
> >      >
> >      > Vern
> >      >
> >      > Rob Ludwick wrote:
> >      > > Jon,
> >      > >
> >      > > 92.55.82.121 <http://92.55.82.121> is listed in Dshield.org
> >     database, as an attacker 3 times.
> >      > > Possibly from Macedonia.
> >      > >
> >      > > 62.162.164.116 <http://62.162.164.116> is in a block assigned
> >     to Macedonia, it appears 0 times
> >      > > in the Dshield.org database.
> >      > >
> >      > > Considering that both came from Macedonia, one with a hit on
> >     Dshield, I
> >      > > would say that yes.  It's safe to assume you've been hacked.
> >      > >
> >      > > If you've noticed, there may have been a lot of activity on
> >     port 22,
> >      > > with a lot of rejections on the same IP within maybe within a
> >     span of 30
> >      > > minutes.  Then there's another IP address that scans the next
> >     day with
> >      > > another set of usernames and passwords.  That's been pretty
> >     standard for
> >      > > about 2 or 3 years now.
> >      > >
> >      > > So I would figure out if they had any access to boxes on that
> >     network as
> >      > > well.  Putting nologin in /etc/passwd is good, but they may
> >     have been
> >      > > going on for a while, and that may not be their only avenue of
> >     entry.
> >      > >
> >      > > And when you determine the list of boxes they had entered on
> your
> >      > > network, reformat them and put a fresh install of software on.
> >      > >
> >      > > And if you did any banking with those boxes, it would be wise
> >     to change
> >      > > account passwords.  As well as any other account you consider
> >      > > confidential that you accessed from those machines.
> >      > >
> >      > > --R
> >      > >
> >      > > On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 11:20 -0400, Jon wrote:
> >      > >> In the last few weeks I poked a hole through my router to SSH
> >     into my
> >      > >> box at home from the road.
> >      > >>
> >      > >> I was just scrounging thru the auth.log with `grep 'Accepted
> >     password
> >      > >> for' ./auth.log* | less`
> >      > >>
> >      > >> And got this:
> >      > >>
> >      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 28 12:03:39 nichtscheissen sshd[24906]:
> Accepted
> >      > >> password for jon from 216.155.176.39 <http://216.155.176.39>
> >     port 5873 ssh2
> >      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 28 13:04:40 nichtscheissen sshd[25857]:
> Accepted
> >      > >> password for jon from 216.155.176.39 <http://216.155.176.39>
> >     port 4689 ssh2
> >      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 28 21:41:34 nichtscheissen sshd[1839]:
> Accepted
> >      > >> password for jon from 192.168.1.104 <http://192.168.1.104>
> >     port 40752 ssh2
> >      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 28 21:43:27 nichtscheissen sshd[2138]:
> Accepted
> >      > >> password for jon from 192.168.1.104 <http://192.168.1.104>
> >     port 40755 ssh2
> >      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 28 21:44:07 nichtscheissen sshd[2155]:
> Accepted
> >      > >> password for jon from 192.168.1.104 <http://192.168.1.104>
> >     port 40757 ssh2
> >      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 28 22:01:27 nichtscheissen sshd[2440]:
> Accepted
> >      > >> password for jon from 192.168.1.104 <http://192.168.1.104>
> >     port 43941 ssh2
> >      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 28 22:01:50 nichtscheissen sshd[2452]:
> Accepted
> >      > >> password for jon from 192.168.1.104 <http://192.168.1.104>
> >     port 43942 ssh2
> >      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 28 22:09:36 nichtscheissen sshd[2726]:
> Accepted
> >      > >> password for jon from 192.168.1.104 <http://192.168.1.104>
> >     port 46126 ssh2
> >      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 29 21:17:35 nichtscheissen sshd[18658]:
> Accepted
> >      > >> password for jon from 192.168.1.104 <http://192.168.1.104>
> >     port 42032 ssh2
> >      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 31 08:34:03 nichtscheissen sshd[26223]:
> Accepted
> >      > >> password for jon from 216.155.176.39 <http://216.155.176.39>
> >     port 21045 ssh2
> >      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 31 08:34:09 nichtscheissen sshd[26227]:
> Accepted
> >      > >> password for jon from 216.155.176.39 <http://216.155.176.39>
> >     port 21283 ssh2
> >      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 31 08:38:42 nichtscheissen sshd[26243]:
> Accepted
> >      > >> password for jon from 216.155.176.39 <http://216.155.176.39>
> >     port 20307 ssh2
> >      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 31 08:39:21 nichtscheissen sshd[26257]:
> Accepted
> >      > >> password for jon from 216.155.176.39 <http://216.155.176.39>
> >     port 20229 ssh2
> >      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 31 08:39:44 nichtscheissen sshd[26262]:
> Accepted
> >      > >> password for jon from 216.155.176.39 <http://216.155.176.39>
> >     port 17171 ssh2
> >      > >> ./auth.log.0:Jul 31 18:13:22 nichtscheissen sshd[6258]:
> Accepted
> >      > >> password for postgres from  port 63075 ssh2
> >      > >> ./auth.log.0:Aug  1 03:20:35 nichtscheissen sshd[11115]:
> Accepted
> >      > >> password for postgres from 62.162.164.116
> >     <http://62.162.164.116> port 1283 ssh2
> >      > >> ./auth.log.0:Aug  1 03:31:04 nichtscheissen sshd[11368]:
> Accepted
> >      > >> password for postgres from 62.162.164.116
> >     <http://62.162.164.116> port 1685 ssh2
> >      > >> ./auth.log.0:Aug  1 11:04:02 nichtscheissen sshd[18404]:
> Accepted
> >      > >> password for postgres from 62.162.164.116
> >     <http://62.162.164.116> port 3262 ssh2
> >      > >> ./auth.log.0:Aug  1 13:41:06 nichtscheissen sshd[20845]:
> Accepted
> >      > >> password for postgres from 92.55.82.121 <http://92.55.82.121>
> >     port 64237 ssh2
> >      > >>
> >      > >> The logins for me from the 216 address are kosher. Thats me
> >     from work.
> >      > >>
> >      > >> Its the logins for postgres that concern me.
> >      > >>
> >      > >> What I've done so far is changed the postgres users shell
> >      > >> to /usr/sbin/nologin.
> >      > >>
> >      > >> Any ideas whats going on here? How concerned should I be about
> >     these
> >      > >> successful logins?
> >      > >>
> >      > >
> >      > >
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