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i92guboj
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 10:15 am    Post subject: Any legit reason why wifite starts silently in background? Reply with quote

Today, while I was profiling energy usage in my old t420 laptop I noticed that, from time to time, aircrack-ng appeared at the top of the list. Looking further, I noticed that wifite was also there, a bit lower in the list.

Both sucking quite a bit of wattage, by the way.

What worries me, however, is whether there's any legit reason why wifite launches itself. I have no idea how it's started, and I am certain that I didn't set that up myself. I greped in /etc and a few other places just to check, and nothing turned up that could be spawning wifite or aircrack.

I also noticed that sometimes the webcam module and the sound driver where at the top, even though I wasn't using anything related. This could be related to chrome-ware, though.

In any case, this smells bad, and calls for a disconnect and a serious revision, that is, unless someone here can explain why wifite was acting that way. rkhunter doesn't report anything obvious, but I truly have no idea why wifite fires up itself at random. I kill it and half an hour later it appears again. This seems quite strange to me.

By the way, I installed wifite from the pentoo overlay time ago to test the security of my home wifi and haven't used it much since then. I didn't even remember I had it installed. I tell you that because, even if the pentoo repositories have been tampered with, I haven't launched it for years.

Maybe I am missing something simple here...

Any idea is welcome :)
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 10:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just a guess, but maybe it's hotplug-starting it when it sees the net.wlan script start? udev rules can do some unwanted things too.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 2:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ant P. wrote:
Just a guess, but maybe it's hotplug-starting it when it sees the net.wlan script start? udev rules can do some unwanted things too.


Thanks for the pointer :)

That's why I greped the whole /etc for signs of aircrack and wifite. So far, nothing turned out. I had one leftover network interface called "mon0", which surely is related to having used this software in the past. I probably set that up myself, even though I don't remember doing it. I can't tell if it's related, somehow, to this strange behavior.

I uninstalled the offending packages, and took some measures to avoid any harm. This laptop is under observation just for forensic purposes, but for the time being I haven't been able to find anything.
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