Rootkit Hunter
rkhunter (Rootkit Hunter) is a Unix-based tool that scans for
rootkits, backdoors and possible local exploits.
Specifically,
rkhunter is a shell script which carries out various checks on
the
local system to try and detect known rootkits and malware. It also
performs checks to see if commands have been modified, if the system
startup files have been modified, and various checks on the network
interfaces, including checks for listening applications.
rkhunter
has been written to be as generic as possible, and so should run on
most Linux and UNIX systems. It is provided with some support scripts
should certain commands be missing from the system, and some of these
are Perl
scripts.
Features include:
- Compares MD5 hashes of important files with known good ones
in online database
- Searches for:
- Default directories of rootkits
- Wrong permissions
- Hidden files
- Suspicious strings in kernel modules, and
- Special tests
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