looking for a "list of malicious bash commands" thread on ubuntu forums

[howtobash]

hello, a couple years ago i saw a "list of malicious bash commands" thread on ubuntu forums and i was wondering if that thread is still around or if it was deleted,

it was really useful for cross referencing possible malicious commands that people either send me, or other people get sent and want my opinion on

so is that thread still around? or was it deleted?

thank you

[coffeecat]

Hi. Welcome to the forum and thanks for noticing that the malicious commands announcement had disappeared. I've moved this thread to Forum Feedback & Help as it primarily concerns the forum software, albeit a bit of absent minded housekeeping thereof.

I've reinstated the announcement - it is now visible in the "New to Ubuntu" sub-forum. As always, if anyone has ideas for updating, clarifying or augmenting the announcement, do please post here. Thanks.

[currentshaft]

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[TheFu]

explainshell.com is helpful too, if you don't want to read the local manpages. Malicious commands often have commands, inside commands, inside commands, which are harder for tools to parse.

Take anything any AI tool says with skepticism. They often make mistakes. I've tried to use a few of them to provide solutions to trivial scripts and been disappointed about 50% of the time. We never know which 50% is true and correct.

Often times, dangerous commands use subtle, not well-known, aspects of the command or OS to do their worst.

[stephan4]

ChatGPT and everything AI is usually pure garbage.

However, the best way to understand if a command is "bad" or not ... is to understand Linux, its CLI and your environment. If you don't know IT, don't work with servers.
Take your time to get experience.