Sadmind

Backdoor Sadmind
Alias
  • sadmind/IIS
  • Worm.PoizonBox[1]
TypeComputer worm
OriginChina
Technical details
Platform
Written inEnglish
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The Sadmind worm was a computer worm which exploited vulnerabilities in both Sun Microsystems' Solaris (Security Bulletin 00191) and Microsoft's Internet Information Services (MS00-078), for which a patch had been made available seven months earlier. It was discovered on May 8, 2001.[4]

Specifically, the virus affected the sadmind daemon on Solaris systems which had sadmind enabled in inetd.conf, due to the fact that the sadmind daemon normally ran with root privileges.[5]

fuck USA Government
fuck PoizonBOx
Message displayed on sites altered by Sadmind worm.

The worm defaced web servers with a message against the United States government[6] and the anti-Chinese cracking group PoizonBOx.[7]

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