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Commands by tiagofischer

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unhide (proc|sys|brute)
2010-12-16 13:05:10
User: tiagofischer
Tags: unhide
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Forensic tool to find hidden processes and ports

Unhide is a forensic tool to find processes and TCP/UDP ports hidden by rootkits, Linux kernel modules or by other techniques. It includes two utilities: unhide and unhide-tcp.

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ps h -o pid,command | grep 'TEXT' | sed 's/^ \+//' | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | xargs -n 1 kill
2010-06-18 18:44:22
User: tiagofischer
Functions: cut grep ps sed xargs
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Kill process by searching something from 'ps' command
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ipcs -a | grep 0x | awk '{printf( "-Q %s ", $1 )}' | xargs ipcrm
2010-01-28 12:15:22
User: tiagofischer
Functions: awk grep ipcs xargs
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Clear IPC Message Queue
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sed -i -e 's/war/peace/g' *
2010-01-02 13:16:35
User: tiagofischer
Functions: sed
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Replace strings in files

Replace the word 'war' to word 'peace' in every file in the current directory.

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ipcs
2009-12-09 12:30:00
User: tiagofischer
Functions: ipcs
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Provide information on IPC (Inter-process communication) facilities

Get information about Shared Memory Segments, Semaphore Arrays and Message Queues.

Summary:

ipcs -u
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ccze
2009-11-23 15:54:33
User: tiagofischer
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A robust, modular log coloriser

CCZE is a robust and modular log coloriser, with plugins for apm, exim, fetchmail, httpd, postfix, procmail, squid, syslog, ulogd, vsftpd, xferlog and more.

Examples:

tail -f /var/log/messages | ccze -A

tail -f /var/log/exim4/mainlog | ccze -A

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rcconf
2009-11-23 14:32:43
User: tiagofischer
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Debian Runlevel configuration tool

This tool configures system services in connection with system runlevels. It turns on/off services using the scripts in /etc/init.d/.

Rcconf works with System-V style runlevel configuration.

It is a TUI(Text User Interface) frontend to the update-rc.d command.

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lockfile
2009-11-23 12:07:07
User: tiagofischer
Functions: lockfile
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Locking and unlocking files and mailboxes

Programs for locking and unlocking files and mailboxes.This package includes several programs to safely lock and unlock files and mailboxes from the command line. These include:

lockfile-create

lockfile-remove

lockfile-touchlock

mail-lock

mail-unlock

mail-touchlock

These programs use liblockfile to perform the file locking and unlocking, so they are guaranteed compatible with Debian's file locking policies.

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On target: "nc -l 4000 | tar xvf -" On source: "tar -cf - . | nc target_ip 4000"
2009-06-30 19:36:19
User: tiagofischer
Tags: tar nc
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Using netcat to copy files between servers

It bypasses encryption overhead of SSH and depending on configuration can be significantly faster.

It's recommended to use only in trusted networks.

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netstat -ntu | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
2009-03-28 21:02:26
User: tiagofischer
Functions: awk cut netstat sort uniq
Tags: sort awk uniq netstat cut
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Number of open connections per ip.

Here is a command line to run on your server if you think your server is under attack. It prints our a list of open connections to your server and sorts them by amount.

BSD Version:

netstat -na |awk '{print $5}' |cut -d "." -f1,2,3,4 |sort |uniq -c |sort -nr
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unzip \*.zip
2009-03-26 02:36:28
User: tiagofischer
Tags: unzip
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Unzip all files with ".zip" extension.

"unzip *.zip" doesn't work as expected, because unzip handle wildcards in a different way.

You just need to escape the wildcard or do in another way:

for f in *.zip; do unzip "$f"; done
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