full-disclosure - Re: Automated SSH login attempts?

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From: dmargoli at stwing.org (dmargoli@...ing.org)
Subject: Re: Automated SSH login attempts?

Max Valdez wrote:

> doesnt make any sense
> 
> That way you should have root on the first box to start exploiting others, 
> kind of weird.
> 
> smells like rootkit downloader to me.
> 
> Anybody willing to make a strace of this program ??
> 
> Max
> 

A previous poster mentioned that after exploiting a test/test or 
guest/guest account, an attacker downloaded SuckIt to his machine, got 
root using some unspecified local vuln (he said it was a very unpatched 
mcahine), and started from there.

The program IS linked against OpenSSL and appears to inintiate an ssh 
connection with the target(s) in a separate text file (uniq.txt). I 
can't follow the connection because of the encryption, but it seems to 
be trying a user and then disconnecting (as in, I see nothing really 
obviously out of the ordinary when I run it). Haven't got farther in 
disassembling it yet.