My asterisk server always have a large CPU usage process

Asterisk Asterisk Support
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hi
i have a Centos 5 server which hosted asterisk 13. server works fine last week but now top command always show me a process with large amount of CPU usage. when i kill the process a few second later another command with large CPU usage started. many times processes command is “.syslog” but have other command like “qjennjifes”, “vnvebynufu” and another unknown commands like that.

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Hi,
It looks like someone has hacked you.
Moreover, CentOS 5 has been end-of-life for almost a year.

I recommend you reinstalling Asterisk on a clean CentOS 6.