Re: [bitfolk] Mystery executable "d"

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Author: Brad Ackerman
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Subject: Re: [bitfolk] Mystery executable "d"
Does rpm -qf /bin/d provide any output? If not, that would be... a
rather suspicious location for a file, given its location.

On Wed, Dec 26, 2012, at 0:17, Jamie Stallwood wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Any idea what this entry on my Centos EL5XEN virtual machine might be, in
> /bin?
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root  root     5488 May 12  2008 d

>
> No man page, no useful info from "strings", no --help option and nothing
> from yum whatprovides. It's newer than "ed" (and / itself) but older than
> "grep". The only thing I note is from hex dump:
>
> 0000960: 0047 4343 3a20 2847 4e55 2920 342e 312e .GCC: (GNU) 4.1.
> 0000970: 3220 3230 3038 3037 3034 2028 5265 6420 2 20080704 (Red
> 0000980: 4861 7420 342e 312e 322d 3530 2900 0047 Hat 4.1.2-50)..G
>
> If you put a directory as an argument it loops forever. If you put a file
> it
> spouts gibberish.
>
> Cheers!
> Jamie Stallwood
>
>
>
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