Linux21: Spotting the Rogue Process

Every running program is a process. Malware doesn't hide from ps — you just have to know what you're looking at

Objective

Learner can list running processes, understand PIDs, and identify an anomalous high-consumption process

Mission

app-srv-03 is reported sluggish. Investigate running processes using ps aux — the second column of its output is the PID — and identify the PID of a process named stress-sim, a simulated rogue process consuming abnormal CPU

Commands you may need to solve this lab

ps aux

Questions

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