Am 04.10.2014 um 03:34 schrieb Tim Dunphy: > Hey all, > > I noticed that my puppet server running CentOS 6.5 was acting a little > pokey. > > So I logged in and did what well just about anyone would've done. And ran > the uptime command to have a look at the load. And it was astonishingly > high! > > [root at puppet:~] #uptime > 21:28:01 up 1:26, 3 users, load average: 107.37, 72.06, 75.52 > > > So then I had a look at top and saw a LOT of processes by the name of > smartvd. > > > 7332 root 20 0 423m 1808 0 S 5.6 0.1 0:49.30 smarvtd > 5469 root 20 0 423m 1804 0 S 4.6 0.1 0:49.55 smarvtd > 2042 root 20 0 423m 1804 0 S 3.7 0.1 0:49.66 smarvtd > 2421 root 20 0 423m 1808 0 S 3.7 0.1 0:47.62 smarvtd > 3081 root 20 0 423m 1808 0 S 3.7 0.1 0:47.08 smarvtd > 3366 root 20 0 423m 1804 0 S 3.7 0.1 0:47.87 smarvtd > 3568 root 20 0 423m 1808 0 S 3.7 0.1 0:48.94 smarvtd > 3971 root 20 0 423m 1812 0 S 3.7 0.1 0:49.18 smarvtd > 4264 root 20 0 423m 1812 0 S 3.7 0.1 0:48.33 smarvtd > 4585 root 20 0 423m 1812 0 S 3.7 0.1 0:48.44 smarvtd > 5277 root 20 0 423m 1808 0 S 3.7 0.1 0:48.13 smarvtd > 6160 root 20 0 423m 1812 0 S 3.7 0.1 0:49.33 smarvtd > 6441 root 20 0 423m 1808 0 S 3.7 0.1 0:48.17 smarvtd > 6746 root 20 0 423m 1804 0 S 3.7 0.1 0:49.60 smarvtd > 7612 root 20 0 423m 1812 0 S 3.7 0.1 0:48.97 smarvtd > 7919 root 20 0 423m 1808 0 S 3.7 0.1 0:47.33 smarvtd > 8202 root 20 0 423m 1812 0 S 3.7 0.1 0:49.67 smarvtd > 26526 root 20 0 423m 1812 0 S 3.7 0.1 1:22.17 whitptabil > 2747 root 20 0 423m 1812 0 S 2.8 0.1 0:48.41 smarvtd > 4952 root 20 0 423m 1812 0 S 2.8 0.1 0:48.43 smarvtd > 5878 root 20 0 423m 1808 0 S 2.8 0.1 0:48.02 smarvtd > 7048 root 20 0 423m 1808 0 S 2.8 0.1 0:48.51 smarvtd > > So my question to you is what the HELL is smartvd ? Seems like a virus to > me. And of course how do I get rid of it? > > Also curious what whitptabil is and how to get rid of it. [ ... ] > Really really curious here, guys. What do y'all think??? > > Thanks > Tim Take the system off. Save the content for later forensics and then reinstall the system from scratch. What's running is malware http://v.virscan.org/Backdoor.Linux.Mayday.f.html It is typical for such backdoors to camouflage as programs with a known name: whitptabil versus whiptail and smarvtd versus smartd. Alexander