The Auto-Color Linux backdoor provides remote access while employing a user-space rootkit to hide its presence. It achieves persistence by dropping a shared library and registering it via /etc/ld.so.preload, which loads the library into other dynamically linked processes. The rootkit component hooks libc functions to hide files, filter network connections in /proc/net/tcp, and disable SELinux enforcement.
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Reverse Engineering the Auto-Color Linux Backdoor