It’s like that guy that posted an example Bitcoin miner on GitHub, then a bunch of script kiddies forgot to change his wallet info for their own before deploying… He made a good chunk of change by doing nothing malicious.
Dream job.
I laughed and my partner ask why. I told her it’s some really nerdy humor. She was fine not hearing the joke, but I loosely explained it anyway. She humored me anyway. She’s a good woman.
God my wife would just stare at me and then go on with her previous conversation.
My wife would just kiss me so I stfu
My boyfriend is completely technically illiterate haha. But he’s such a good boy otherwise
if only all my friends were like that
They definitely tolerate my nerdiness, but they just don’t get it, even after an explanation.
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Downloaded a virus for Linux lately and unpacked it. Tried to run it as root, didn’t work. Googled for 2 hours, found out that instead of
/usr/local/binthe virus unpacked to/usr/binfor which the user malware doesn’t have any write permissions, therefore the virus couldn’t create a process file. Found patched .configure and .make files on some Chinese forum, recompiled and rerun it. The virus said it needs the librarycmalw-lib-2.0.Turns outcmalw-lib-2.0is shipped with CentOS but not with Ubuntu. Googled for hours again and found an instruction to build a.deb package from source. The virus finally started, wrote some logs, made a core dump and crashed. After 1 hour of going through the logs I discovered the virus assumed it was running on ext4 and called into its disk encryption API. Under btrfs this API is deprecated. The kernel noticed and made this partition read-onlyOpened the sources, grep’ed the Bitcoin wallet and sent $5 out of pity.
So, essentially, really poorly written malware? Given the number of assumptions it makes without any sort of robustness around system configuration it’s about as good as any first-pass bash script.
It’d be a stretch to call it malware, it’s probably an outright fabrication to call it a virus.
This is… clearly a meme…
I wasn’t sure about it either. There’s security researchers out there who might genuinely want to get a virus to run in a VM.
But yeah, the
cmalw-lib-2.0gives it away…Yeah, nobody uses
cmalw-lib-2.0Its deprecated, now we use
hack-lib-client-1.17systemd-malwaredand its front-endmalctlare how the cool kids are doing it.
Should’ve written the malware in Go, smh
This reminds me of the old linux hater’s blog post “At least we don’t have any viruses”.
Seems like the prediction about the web panned out…
That certainly was a blog with many emotions. Coming at this with no context, it looks like the kind of content that would be beautiful satire, except it’s probably not.
if youre gonna write linux malware at least distribute it as a flatpak ffs
Already on it https://flathub.org/apps/com.microsoft.Edge
A system bestowed upon us by gods.
I guess the process could be regarded as gain of function research.
Sorry, folks. Using
cmalw-libis now deprecated.Cool kids are using
systemd-malwdIsn’t this just a newer version of this? https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/evilmalware.html
The newer one is a lot funnier though.
Even if it were inspired, it is significantly different the way it’s written. I’ve hit these same challenges before, so I’m more inclined to think it is independent discovery.
