Search/Sinkholing Suspicious Scripts or Executables on Linux, (Fri, Jul 25th)
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Sinkholing Suspicious Scripts or Executables on Linux, (Fri, Jul 25th)

When you need to analyze some suspicious pieces of code, it's interesting to detonate them in a sandbox. If you don't have a complete sandbox environment available or you just want to avoid generatin noise on your network, why not route the traffic to a sinkhole or NULL-route (read: packets won't be sent across the normal network and default gateway). When you inspect a process using the /proc[1] virtual filesystem, there is a "route" file: remnux@remnux:~$ cat /proc/1180/net/route Iface Destination Gateway Flags RefCnt Use Metric Mask MTU Window IRTT ens19 00000000 01FEA8C0 0003 0 0 100 00000000 0 0 0 ens18 004A10AC 00000000 0001 0 0 0 00FFFFFF 0 0 0 ens19 00FEA8C0 00000000 0001 0 0 0 00FFFFFF 0 0 0 ens19 01FEA8C0 00000000 0005 0 0 100 FFFFFFFF 0 0 0 It displays the IP routing table…

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