‎ּTry something like: lsof | grep /tmp/pymp-n7uodgt6
You will see if a program is currently using any of these files so you can
see what program created it.
I don't think this means a system hack.

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On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM Yaniv Haliwa <[email protected]> wrote:

> Look like ur server vulnerable and attacker try runing reverse shell.
> Probably with msfconsole that it looks this way
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> On Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 13:48 אורי <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm running a production server on Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS hosted on
>> digitalocean (this droplet is running since 2023). Now, recently I saw some
>> strange files in /tmp that were not there before. These files contain the
>> string pymp:
>>
>> # find /tmp/ -ls |grep pymp
>>      3762      4 drwx------   2 root     root         4096 Nov 17 22:23
>> /tmp/pymp-n7uodgt6
>>      4045      0 srwxr-xr-x   1 root     root            0 Nov 17 22:23
>> /tmp/pymp-n7uodgt6/listener-0lcaibxe
>>      2210      4 drwx------   2 root     root         4096 Nov 17 18:18
>> /tmp/pymp-fciod9wd
>>      2369      0 srwxr-xr-x   1 root     root            0 Nov 17 18:18
>> /tmp/pymp-fciod9wd/listener-fwhwjxcb
>>
>> What are these files and does in mean my server (droplet) has been
>> cracked?
>>
>> There were more files like this which I deleted.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Uri Rodberg, Speedy Net.
>>
>> אורי
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