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THE DARK SIDE OF THE FORSSHE A landscape of OpenSSH backdoors

December 4, 2018

A little more than three years ago we started hunting for OpenSSH backdoors being used in-the-wild. While we are always trying to improve defenses against Linux malware by discovering and analyzing examples, the scope of this hunt was specifically to catch server-side OpenSSH backdoors. Unfortunately, telemetry on Linux malware is not as readily available as it is on other platforms. Nonetheless, malicious OpenSSH binaries are quite common and have features that help us detect them among legitimate OpenSSH binaries.

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THE DARK SIDE OF THE FORSSHE A landscape of OpenSSH backdoors