Re: Sun Ultra10/Sol 5.6 /dev folder keeps growing

From: Jon Harris (j.harris@digital-ink.co.uk)
Date: Mon May 19 2003 - 05:23:42 EDT


Hi List

thanks to the replies to my recent posting.

Following the advice given - I booted from a Solaris 8 CDROM and mounted
/dev on a new /tmp folder so I could have a look at it.

I found a folder called /dev/prom and in it a file called sn.l which was
over 67Mb and another zero byte file called 'dos'. I have deleted sn.l
and I have got my disk space back - Thats the good news.

When I rebooted back from the hard drive I can't see anything in that
folder, But when I ran ls from the /bin folder on the Solaris CD - I can
see it.

The sn.l file itself is a log file, last three lines:

---------------------------
Restart on (date and time)

Log started at => (date and time) [pid 333]
---------------------------

The 333 process is the console. (Gulp!)

Next worrying thing is a folder I found called /dev/pts/01/bin/

It contains:

du
find
ls
netstat
passwd
ping
psr
su

All the files are dated Jan 5 2001

Presumably these are comprimised files and I can safely delete them?

I guess my conclusion is that it has been compromised, has anyone come
across these folder/files and have any idea what the nature of this
attack is.

Before I read any replies on this I shall put on a black armband :-(

TIA

Jon Harris
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