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YARA Memory Scan (Linux)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 97863

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Synopsis

Nessus detected one or more malicious processes on the remote host.

Description

Nessus detected one or more processes on the remote Linux host that match a YARA rule. Note that scanning memory requires a privileged account that can use ptrace.

See Also

http://virustotal.github.io/yara/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 97863

File Name: linux_yara_mem_scan.nbin

Version: 1.426

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Backdoors

Published: 3/21/2017

Updated: 12/18/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

CVSS Score Rationale: Malware score

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: manual

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Host/yara/path, Host/yara/rule