windigo post-mortem

Damien Miller
Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:35:20 -0000

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