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## :key: feature table



Environment:

 - CPU architecture

 - Kernel/User mode (or mixed)



Core capabilities:

 - Persistency

 - Management interface

 - Altering system (library) behavior



Stealth capabilities:

 - Detection evasion

 - System logs cleaning (filtering)



Hiding stuff capabilities:

 - Hiding of files and directories

 - Hiding (tampering) of file contents

 - Hiding of processes and process trees

 - Hiding of network connections and activity

 - Hiding of process accounting information (like CPU usage)



Additional functions:

 - Keylogger

 - Backdoor/shell

 - Gaining priveleges



## :see_no_evil: user mode rootkits



- https://github.com/mempodippy/vlany



  Linux LD_PRELOAD rootkit (x86 and x86_64 architectures)



- https://github.com/unix-thrust/beurk



  BEURK is an userland preload rootkit for GNU/Linux, heavily focused around anti-debugging and anti-detection.



- https://github.com/chokepoint/azazel



  Azazel is a userland rootkit based off of the original LD_PRELOAD technique from Jynx rootkit.



- https://github.com/chokepoint/Jynx2



  JynxKit2 is an LD_PRELOAD userland rootkit based on the original JynxKit.



- https://github.com/chokepoint/jynxkit



  JynxKit is an LD_PRELOAD userland rootkit for Linux systems with reverse connection SSL backdoor



- https://github.com/NexusBots/Umbreon-Rootkit



  LD_PRELOAD based



- https://github.com/ChristianPapathanasiou/apache-rootkit



  A malicious Apache module with rootkit functionality



## :hear_no_evil: kernel mode rootkits



- https://github.com/jermeyyy/rooty



  Academic project of Linux rootkit made for Bachelor Engineering Thesis.



- https://github.com/trailofbits/krf



  A kernelspace randomized syscall faulter for Linux 4.15+



- https://github.com/f0rb1dd3n/Reptile :zap: [details](details/reptile.md) :zap:



  Reptile is a LKM rootkit written for evil purposes that runs on Linux kernel 2.6.x/3.x/4.x



- https://github.com/QuokkaLight/rkduck :zap: [details](details/rkduck.md) :zap:



  rkduck - Rootkit for Linux v4



- https://github.com/croemheld/lkm-rootkit



  A LKM rootkit for most newer kernel versions.



- https://github.com/mncoppola/suterusu



  An LKM rootkit targeting Linux 2.6.x/3.x on x86, and ARM



- https://github.com/romeroperezabel/ARP-RootKit



  An open source rootkit for the Linux Kernel to develop new ways of infection/detection.



- https://github.com/nurupo/rootkit



  Linux rootkit for Ubuntu 16.04 and 10.04 (Linux Kernels 4.4.0 and 2.6.32), both i386 and amd64



- https://github.com/m0nad/Diamorphine



  LKM rootkit for Linux Kernels 2.6.x/3.x/4.x/5.x (x86 and x86_64)



- https://github.com/ivyl/rootkit



  Sample Rootkit for Linux



- https://github.com/deb0ch/toorkit



  A simple useless rootkit for the linux kernel



- https://github.com/vrasneur/randkit



  Random number rootkit for the Linux kernel



- https://github.com/Eterna1/puszek-rootkit



  Yet another LKM rootkit for Linux. It hooks syscall table.



- https://github.com/trimpsyw/adore-ng



  linux rootkit adapted for 2.6 and 3.x



- https://github.com/bones-codes/the_colonel



  An experimental linux kernel module (rootkit) with a keylogger and built-in IRC bot



- https://github.com/David-Reguera-Garcia-Dreg/enyelkm



  LKM rootkit for Linux x86 with the 2.6 kernel. It inserts salts inside system_call and sysenter_entry.



- https://github.com/falk3n/subversive



  x86_64 linux rootkit using debug registers



- https://github.com/jiayy/lkm-rootkit



  An lkm rootkit support x86/64,arm,mips



- https://github.com/a7vinx/liinux



  A linux rootkit works on kernel 4.0.X or higher



- https://github.com/hanj4096/wukong



  Wukong: a LKM rootkit for Linux kernel 2.6.x, 3.x and 4.x



- https://github.com/varshapaidi/Kernel_Rootkit



  Linux Kernel Rootkit - To hide modules and ssh service



- https://github.com/kacheo/KernelRootkit



  Linux kernel rootkit to hide certain files and processes.



- https://github.com/dsmatter/brootus



  bROOTus is a Linux kernel rootkit that comes as a single LKM (Loadable Kernel Module) and it is totally restricted to kernel 2.6.32.



- https://github.com/jarun/keysniffer



  A Linux kernel module to grab keys pressed in the keyboard.



- https://github.com/PinkP4nther/Sutekh



  An example rootkit that gives a userland process root permissions (x86, 4.x)



- https://github.com/En14c/LilyOfTheValley



  LilyOfTheValley is a simple LKM linux kernel rootkit for v4.x that works on (x86 and x86_64)



- https://github.com/NoviceLive/research-rootkit



  This is LibZeroEvil & the Research Rootkit project, in which there are step-by-step, experiment-based courses that help to get you started and keep your hands dirty with offensive or defensive development in the Linux kernel (LibZeroEvil).



- https://github.com/NinnOgTonic/Out-of-Sight-Out-of-Mind-Rootkit :zap: [writeup](https://github.com/NinnOgTonic/Out-of-Sight-Out-of-Mind-Rootkit/blob/master/osom.pdf) :zap:



  Out of Sight, Out of Mind is a study and implementation of Linux rootkit methods. In addition a new covert network channel using additional Domain Name System (DNS) is implemented.

  

- https://github.com/h3xduck/Umbra

 

  An experimental LKM rootkit for v4.x/5.x kernels which opens a backdoor that can be used to get a reverse shell remotely.



- https://github.com/kris-nova/boopkit



  Linux backdoor, rootkit, and eBPF bypass tools. Remote command execution over raw TCP.



- https://github.com/milabs/kopycat



  KOPYCAT - Linux Kernel module-less implant (backdoor).

  

- https://github.com/h3xduck/TripleCross

 

  A Linux eBPF rootkit with a backdoor, C2, library injection, execution hijacking, persistence and stealth capabilities.



- https://github.com/carloslack/KoviD



 Linux 4.18+ rootkit with multiple reverse backdoors, task management, CPU usage hiding, stealth techniques, ELF infection and evasion from anti-rooktiks based on eBPF.



- https://github.com/reveng007/reveng_rtkit



  Linux Loadable Kernel Module (LKM) based rootkit capable of hiding itself, processes/implants, rmmod proof, has ability to bypass infamous rkhunter antirootkit.



## :speak_no_evil: related stuff



- https://github.com/landhb/DrawBridge



  A layer 4 Single Packet Authentication (SPA) Module, used to conceal TCP ports on public facing machines and add an extra layer of security.



- https://github.com/gianlucaborello/libprocesshider



  Hide a process under Linux using the ld preloader



- https://github.com/spiderpig1297/kprochide



  LKM for hiding processes from the userland. The module is able to hide multiple processes and is able to dynamically receive new processes to hide.



- https://github.com/spiderpig1297/kfile-over-icmp



  kfile-over-icmp is a loadable kernel module for stealth sending of files over ICMP communication.



- https://github.com/spiderpig1297/kunkillable



  LKM (loadable kernel module) that makes userland processes unkillable.



- https://web.archive.org/web/20140701183221/https://www.thc.org/papers/LKM_HACKING.html



  Heroin, an LKM based rootkit, and many more LKM based rootkit techniques (it's backdated, but posses powerful knowledge).



## Contributing



[Please refer the guidelines at contributing.md for details](CONTRIBUTING.md)