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Lynis and ClamAV installation

ValentineValentine Member
edited March 2020 in Performance and Security

Lynis is an open-source security auditing tool. Used by system administrators, security professionals, and auditors, to evaluate the security defenses of their Linux and UNIX-based systems. It runs on the host itself, so it performs more extensive security scans than vulnerability scanners.

ClamAV is an open-source (GPL) anti-virus engine used in a variety of situations including email scanning, web scanning, and endpoint security. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command-line scanner and an advanced tool for automatic database updates.

0. Preliminary requirements:

"CentOS 7" template installed on the server;
"nano" text editor installed (yum install nano -y).

1. Installation of Lynis

mkdir /usr/local/lynis

cd /usr/local/lynis

wget https://downloads.cisofy.com/lynis/lynis-2.7.5.tar.gz

tar -xvf lynis-2.7.5.tar.gz


The newest version can be found at: https://cisofy.com/download/lynis/

2. Using Lynis

To execute Lynis we first have to move to its folder:

cd /usr/local/lynis/lynis

In order to see Lynis tutorial execute:

./lynis

To check entire VPS execute:

./lynis --check-all

1. Installation of ClamAV

yum install epel-release

yum update

yum install clamav-server clamav-data clamav-update clamav-filesystem clamav clamav-scanner-systemd clamav-devel clamav-lib clamav-server-systemd

2. Enabling Freshclam

Freshclam will keep ClamAV up-to-date. In this tutorial, it is set to check 4 times a day for new files.

cp /etc/freshclam.conf /etc/freshclam.conf.bak

sed -i '/Example/d' /etc/freshclam.conf

Edit "clam-freshclam.service" file:

nano /usr/lib/systemd/system/clam-freshclam.service

And paste the content:
# Run the freshclam as daemon
[Unit]
Description = freshclam scanner
After = network.target

[Service]
Type = forking
ExecStart = /usr/bin/freshclam -d -c 4
Restart = on-failure
PrivateTmp = true

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Enabling freshclam to start automatically:

systemctl enable clam-freshclam.service

systemctl start clam-freshclam.service
To manually update ClamAV virus database use the following command:

freshclam
3. Configuring ClamAV deamon

cp /usr/share/clamav/template/clamd.conf /etc/clamd.d/clamd.conf

sed -i '/Example/d' /etc/clamd.d/clamd.conf

mv /usr/lib/systemd/system/clamd@.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/clamd.service

Now we have to change the clamd service file:

nano /usr/lib/systemd/system/clamd.service
[Unit]
Description = clamd scanner daemon
After = syslog.target nss-lookup.target network.target

[Service]
Type = simple
ExecStart = /usr/sbin/clamd -c /etc/clamd.d/clamd.conf --nofork=yes
Restart = on-failure
PrivateTmp = true

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Now move to "system" directory:

cd /usr/lib/systemd/system

And enable clamd to start automatically:

systemctl enable clamd.service

systemctl start clamd.service

4. Manual scan options
To scan all files on the VPS and show name of each file:

clamscan -r /

To scan all files on the VPS, but only show names of infected files when found:

clamscan -r -i /

To scan all files on the VPS, but only show names of infected files, while scan running in the background (while in progress, you can check the scan with "jobs" command):

clamscan -r -i / &

To scan all files in all users home directories:

clamscan -r /home

To scan all files in the USER directory and move infected files to different Quarantine directory:

clamscan -r --move=/home/USER/Quarantine /home/USER

To scan all files in the USER directory and delete the infected files:

clamscan -r --remove /home/USER

Comments

  • Missing several directories (systems/system...) and commands (systemctl..) (template install VPS CentOS 6 + webmin installation). How to install Clam then?
  • Missing several directories (systems/system...) and commands (systemctl..) (template install VPS CentOS 6 + webmin installation). How to install Clam then?
    This tutorial is made for CentoOS 7. For CentOS 6 you just need to start the clamd service and set it to auto-start. Run these commands:
    /etc/init.d/clamd on
    chkconfig clamd on
    /etc/init.d/clamd start

  • Thanks. I will go from there

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