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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So, essentially, really poorly written malware? Given the number of assumptions it makes without any sort of robustness around system configuration it's about as good as any first-pass bash script.

It'd be a stretch to call it malware, it's probably an outright fabrication to call it a virus.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wasn't sure about it either. There's security researchers out there who might genuinely want to get a virus to run in a VM.

But yeah, the cmalw-lib-2.0 gives it away...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, nobody uses cmalw-lib-2.0

Its deprecated, now we use hack-lib-client-1.17

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

systemd-malwared and its front-end malctl are how the cool kids are doing it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

systemd haters will moan and groan about 'bloat' and 'unnecessary end-user hacking libraries' smh