Unknown processes are observed to be running on the server
Issue
- Output of 'top' shows some unknown or unwanted processes were found to be running on the server.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
47672 root 20 0 33272 1112 208 S 23.9 0.1 36:52.82 pkmqjkdiou ------->>>>
- If 'lsof' is used against the same process, then we get following outcome :
# lsof | grep 47672
pkmqjkdio 47672 root cwd DIR 253,0 4096 2 /
pkmqjkdio 47672 root rtd DIR 253,0 4096 2 /
pkmqjkdio 47672 root txt REG 253,0 625878 139290 /usr/bin/pkmqjkdiou ------->>>>
pkmqjkdio 47672 root 0u CHR 1,3 0t0 4217 /dev/null
pkmqjkdio 47672 root 1u CHR 1,3 0t0 4217 /dev/null
pkmqjkdio 47672 root 2u CHR 1,3 0t0 4217 /dev/null
pkmqjkdio 47672 root 3u IPv4 222548344 0t0 UDP *:49473
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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