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.
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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
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.
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-2.0 gives it away...
Yeah, nobody uses cmalw-lib-2.0
Its deprecated, now we use hack-lib-client-1.17
systemd-malwared and its front-end malctl are how the cool kids are doing it.
Text version:
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/bin the virus
unpacked to /usr/bin for 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 library
cmalw-lib-2.0.Turns out
cmalw-lib-2.0 is 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-only
Opened the sources, grep'ed the Bitcoin wallet and sent $5 out of pity.
I guess the process could be regarded as gain of function research.
if youre gonna write linux malware at least distribute it as a flatpak ffs
Sorry, folks. Using cmalw-lib is now deprecated.
Cool kids are using systemd-malwd
Isn't this just a newer version of this?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.
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...