Linux Duplicate User Password Hash Attack

Videos Linux Forensics Malware Education

Date
December 02, 2024
Author
The Sandfly Security Team

Duplicate password hashes on Linux are a tactic for attackers to drop backdoor accounts in an automated way. In this video we explain what a duplicate password hash attack is, and how you can find it with command line tools as well as automatically with Sandfly's agentless EDR for Linux.

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