DoS.Linux.Front

Aliases
DoS.Linux.Front (Kaspersky Lab) is also known as: Perl/Front (McAfee), Perl.Frontp (Symantec), Troj/Front (Sophos), PERL/Front* (RAV), PERL_LFRONT.A (Trend Micro), Unix/Front.A (FRISK), UNIX:Malware (ALWIL), PERL.Front.A (SOFTWIN), DoS Program (Panda), Linux/DoS.Front.A (Eset)

Technical details
This malicious program is designed to conduct a Denial of Service attack on a remote server. The program itself is a malicious script written in Perl. It is 988 bytes in size.

Payload
This script will conduct a DoS attack on a designated server. The remote malicious user provides the address of the server which is used as an input parameter when launching.

The malicious script may cause the server under attack to suffer a loss of performance.

Removal instructions
If your computer does not have an up-to-date antivirus, or does not have an antivirus solution at all, follow the instructions below to delete the malicious program:

1. Delete the original malicious program file (the location will depend on how the program originally penetrated the victim machine).
2. Update your antivirus databases and perform a full scan of the computer (download a trial version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus).