<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Yes, there are ways to obfuscate scripts.<br><br>One of them that I am familiar with is shc<br><a href="http://www.datsi.fi.upm.es/~frosal/sources/shc.html">http://www.datsi.fi.upm.es/~frosal/sources/shc.html</a><br>
<br>But let us first see what really this script is:<br><br>First do a:<br></div>$ which script<br><br>This will get you the full path, in case there are several.<br><br></div>Then do:<br></div>$ file path_from_previous_step<br>
<br>This will print out what the loader thinks the binary is.<br><br></div>Let us see if it is ELF, statically linked, ..etc.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Joe Wennechuk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:youcanreachmehere@hotmail.com" target="_blank">youcanreachmehere@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div dir="ltr">Hello..<div><br></div><div> I have inherited a server, and there are several backup scripts on it; however, when I try to look at the scripts, bash is reporting that they are binary files, and I can't open them?</div>
<div><br></div><div> What am I missing here?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div> </div></div>
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