sshd.exe infected with IDP.Generic?

[Brian Inglis]

On 2020-07-10 13:59, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote:
> On 10.07.2020 21:01, Ernie Rael wrote:
>> On Win7. To get an elevated shell, I typically do "$ ssh xxx@yyy". And not
>> very often.
>> Below is an excerpt of something potentially horrible that just happened.
>> Note the
>> rm *
>> I exited the shell. I did the "ssh..." again (yeah I'm crazy), in a different
>> bash window. And this time avast reported that it stashed sshd.exe into the
>> virus chest.

> check on a online virus scan.
> I will bet in a false positive

IDP.Generic is just a generic *warning* from an identity detection protection
scanner that a flakey AV detects privileged software contains some instructions
or does something that it recognizes as similar to some identity theft malware.

$ sha256sum /usr/sbin/sshd.exe
e666018d4a22b5424385d3752b0a2718a3525e68cf1b448d4f7037bfa40c77eb */usr/sbin/sshd.exe

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/e666018d4a22b5424385d3752b0a2718a3525e68cf1b448d4f7037bfa40c77eb/detection

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