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Possible Malware: Unable to track starting point

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For past couple of days I have been observing weird processes in one of our server. Most of the time I see multiple instances of executable 10 and sometimes 4 and takes a lot of cpu resources. When examined this I have been seeing the process is started by cron right after starting a process with executable cpu_hu. Which is apparently foreign to my system and simple search did not resolve to anything. enter image description here Then examined the cpu_hu process, examined exe location then removed accordingly (location in the image points to a venv for a small project our team is working on) enter image description here even though I removed the binary, after reboot it appeared in a different location and the executables 10, 4 started from memory (no physical executable location) enter image description here I deleted cpu_hu binary from all the locations of the system stopped the process and rebooted, but after some time cpu_hu binary appears elsewhere. For now i have stopped crond and killed the respective processes. Which seemed to have stopped the process from starting again. At this point I am pretty sure its malicious. How can I get rid of this or rather find the starting point of this malware to prevent it from starting.
Asked by Nazmul Ahasan (1 rep)
May 6, 2024, 07:10 AM
Last activity: Aug 5, 2024, 02:58 PM