Crate persistence 

Where Linux and Unix attackers keep access to a host: crontabs, at jobs, systemd units, init scripts, SSH authorized keys and the SSH server’s configuration, rc.local and shell start-up files, /etc/ld.so.preload, sudoers and PAM, read from the host files of a triage collection.

detect tells a file’s Kind from its path on the host (etc/crontab, home/alice/.ssh/authorized_keys, [root]/etc/sudoers, …), and parse reads it into Entrys: one per job, setting, key, command line, library or rule, with the line it’s on, the account it runs as or belongs to, what it runs and when. flags lists the traits that look like an attacker’s (Flag).

Lines that can’t be read are reported in problems, never fatal; no input makes these functions panic.

use persistence::{detect, flags, parse, Flag};

let path = "[root]/etc/cron.d/sysupdate";
let kind = detect(path).unwrap();
let parsed = parse(kind, b"@reboot root /dev/shm/.x/run\n", path);
let job = &parsed.entries[0];
assert_eq!(job.summary(), "@reboot as root: /dev/shm/.x/run");
assert_eq!(flags(job), [Flag::TemporaryDirectory, Flag::AtReboot]);

Structs

AuthorizedKey

A key that may log in.

Entry

One job, setting, key, command line, library or rule.

KeyOption

An option before a key: no-pty, or from="198.51.100.0/24".

PamRule

A PAM rule: type control module arguments.

Parsed

A file’s entries.

SudoRule

A sudoers rule: users hosts = (run-as) TAGS: commands.

Enums

Detail

What else a line holds, by what it is.

Flag

A suspicious trait.

Kind

A kind of file, each read its own way.

Constants

VERSION

This crate’s version, for records of what parsed them.

Functions

detect

A file’s kind from its path on the host: relative to the root (etc/crontab), absolute (/etc/crontab), or as a collection stores it ([root]/etc/crontab, uac/[root]/etc/crontab); / or \ separated. None for files this crate doesn’t read.

flags

What looks suspicious about entry, in Flag order.

parse

Read a file of kind found at path on the host. The path names the account for users’ crontabs, keys, start-up files and units.