Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Linux commands “astu” and “astsu” in Mr. Robot

 

ASTU is a fictional command used in Mr.Robot TV series. He use this command to restore the hacked server. The command used in Mr.Robot TV series while fixing server are

At 30:20 minute in Mr.Robot TV series.

eterm##$ locate server WBKUW300PS345672
eterm##$ ps aux | grep root
eterm##$ ps aux | grep root | cpuset
eterm##$ astu trace -pid 344 -cmd
eterm##$ astu -ls ./root/fsociety/ -a
eterm##$ fsociety00.dat

Above commands were used by Elliot to restore the server. Among all the above commands, only ps and locate is a real Unix command. PS command is used to list the running process. According to the series, there was a rootkill running in the server. He use ps command to find out the list of running process under root user. He finds out fsociety00.dat is process that made the downtime of server.

Locate command is used to search file in your filesystem. It searches for files only in the path located in /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db database file.

11 comments:

  1. ASTU most likely stands for AllSafeToolUser or AllSafeTerminalUser. The ASTSU version would replace User with Super User. Most likely their own version of sudo

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  2. grep is a real Linux command, too, of course...

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  3. I grep what your saying :-)

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  4. astu can be an alias of another linux command ?

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  5. "astu" looks very much like "sudo"

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    1. i think it's alias for sudo

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    2. No it's not, he uses ls and rm as subprograms, so it might be a tool which all-safe created.

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  6. astu means Amen in Sanskrit

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  7. Creio que seja um alias

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