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# Library Hijacking

This script is only readable by everyone. Its not running in cron that we can see but we can use **pspy** to see if it really is.

{% hint style="info" %}
Understand the script format and what it's doing
{% endhint %}

<figure><img src="/files/eONROKgYBlTksGUlI4sr" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

We can see that it's running as a cronjob and calling the **call.py and urllib.py** libraries but them deleting them

<figure><img src="/files/gMmabQbSxZqXWn6q7vwq" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

<figure><img src="/files/cOf2HNlkx2cfyVykrEYb" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

We can create a python reverse shell and make it call that as well and call it urllib.py


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