Analysis by: Henry Alarcon Jr.
ALIASES:

Riskware/XHide (Fortinet), Tool.Linux.ProcHide.6 (DrWeb), Linux/Tool-XHide.a (McAfee)

 PLATFORM:

Linux

 OVERALL RISK RATING:
 DAMAGE POTENTIAL:
 DISTRIBUTION POTENTIAL:
 REPORTED INFECTION:
 INFORMATION EXPOSURE:

  • Threat Type: Hacking Tool

  • Destructiveness: No

  • Encrypted: No

  • In the wild: Yes

  OVERVIEW

Infection Channel: Dropped by other malware, Downloaded from the Internet

This Hacking Tool arrives on a system as a file dropped by other malware or as a file downloaded unknowingly by users when visiting malicious sites. It may be dropped by other malware.

  TECHNICAL DETAILS

File Size: 15,125 bytes
File Type: ELF
Memory Resident: No
Initial Samples Received Date: 14 Aug 2018

Arrival Details

This Hacking Tool arrives on a system as a file dropped by other malware or as a file downloaded unknowingly by users when visiting malicious sites.

It may be dropped by the following malware:

Other Details

This Hacking Tool does the following:

  • This hacking tool used to hide the process specified in the parameters.

It accepts the following parameters:

  • -s {string} = Fake name process
  • -d = Run aplication as daemon/system (optional)
  • -u uid[:gid] = Change UID/GID, use another user (optional)
  • -p {filename} = Save PID to filename (optional)
  • Example: %s -s "klogd -m 0" -d -p test.pid ./egg bot.conf

  SOLUTION

Minimum Scan Engine: 9.850
FIRST VSAPI PATTERN FILE: 2.190.48
FIRST VSAPI PATTERN DATE: 09 Jul 2019
VSAPI OPR PATTERN File: 2.191.00
VSAPI OPR PATTERN Date: 10 Jul 2019

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