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missing /usr/lib files & strange tar file - a hack?
It isn't really a tar file at all. The output of the file command run against it reports "English text" (note: NOT ascii text). If I run tar commands against it, tar reports: "tar: blocksize = 2" Also note, it happened on two boxes here. I see another post in this groups...- dierkerj
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- Forum: Sun: Solaris
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missing /usr/lib files & strange tar file - a hack?
Earlier in the week we encountered two Solaris hosts on our internal network that were "down". After some investigation it was discovered that MANY files and links in the /usr/lib directory structure were gone. After recovering to a point that we could reboot, we check the messages...- dierkerj
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- Forum: Sun: Solaris
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/lib/libc.so.1missing - recovery.
I would suggest that you have in fact been hacked, although I don't know the details yet. I say this because the exact same thing has happened here to two different hosts. One thing I would check for is the presence of an unusual tar file in the root directory of the affected machine. In...- dierkerj
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- Forum: Sun: Solaris
