Malware
SPAWNSNARE
According to Mandiant, this is a utility that is written in C and targets Linux.
SPAWNSNARE is a Linux malware family.
Background
Mandiant describes SPAWNSNARE as a C-written tool aimed at Linux. It is able to pull the uncompressed Linux kernel image (vmlinux) out into a file and encrypt it with AES, all without relying on any command line tools.
Source: Malpedia (Fraunhofer FKIE).