Top 45 rootkit open source projects

LD_PRELOAD Linux rootkit (x86 & ARM)

💣 just for fun ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Your interpreter isn’t safe anymore  —  The PHP module backdoor

Tool to generate a Linux kernel module for custom rules with Netfilter hooking. (block ports, Hidden mode, functions to protect etc)

Shadow-Box: Lightweight and Practical Kernel Protector for x86 (Presented at BlackHat Asia 2017/2018, beVX 2018 and HITBSecConf 2017)

A rootkit for Android. Based on "Android platform based linux kernel rootkit" from Phrack Issue 68

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awesome-windows-security-development

www.rootkit.com users section mirror, sql database dump, and a few other files/rootkits.

a summary of linux rootkits published on GitHub

Windows Rootkit written in Python

windows kernel security development

Shadow-Box: Lightweight and Practical Kernel Protector for ARM (Presented at BlackHat Asia 2018)

An example rootkit that gives a userland process root permissions

Webshell && Backdoor Collection

This is the list of all rootkits found so far on github and other sites.

Linux LD_PRELOAD rootkit (x86 and x86_64 architectures)

Windows driver with usermode interface which can hide objects of file-system and registry, protect processes and etc

LKM rootkit for Linux Kernels 2.6.x/3.x/4.x/5.x (x86/x86_64 and ARM64)

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

awesome-linux-rootkits

This tool will setting up your backdoor/rootkits when backdoor already setup it will be hidden your spesisifc process,unlimited your session in metasploit and transparent. Even when it killed, it will re-run again. There always be a procces which while run another process,So we can assume that this procces is unstopable like a Ghost in The Shell

Hypervisor Memory Introspection Core Library

linux post-exploitation framework made by linux user

A basic Direct Kernel Object Manipulation rootkit that removes a process from the EPROCESS list, hiding it from the Task Manager

PCI Express DIY hacking toolkit for Xilinx SP605

Linux Rootkits (4.x Kernel)

LD_PRELOAD rootkit

Rootkit Detector for UNIX

Example of hooking a linux systemcall

ld_preload userland rootkit

Reverse shell and rootkit

SMM rootkit similar to LoJax or MosaicRegressor

Resolve DOS MZ executable symbols at runtime

A local LKM rootkit loader/dropper that lists available security mechanisms

A Python 3 standalone Windows 10 / Linux Rootkit using Tor.

🔓 x86 Linux Kernel rootkit for Debian 9 (4.9.0-11-686-pae)

This tool will setting up your backdoor/rootkits when backdoor already setup it will be hidden your spesisifc process,unlimited your session in metasploit and transparent. Even when it killed, it will re-run again. There always be a procces which while run another process,So we can assume that this procces is unstopable like a Ghost in The Shell

First Steps in Ubuntu (Server) / Hardening and Config With Docker

A simple rootkit to hide a process

ebpfkit-monitor is a tool that detects and protects against eBPF powered rootkits

ebpfkit is a rootkit powered by eBPF

This is a demo project to illustrate the way to verify and restore original SST in case of some malware hooks

Linux v4.x.x Rootkit

A LKM rootkit targeting 4.x and 5.x kernel versions which opens a backdoor that can spawn a reverse shell to a remote host, launch malware and more.