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
Then examined the
even though I removed the binary, after reboot it appeared in a different location
and the executables
I deleted
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.

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)

10
, 4
started from memory (no physical executable location)

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
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May 6, 2024, 07:10 AM
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